Full of Sweat and Stink Now

I got home from vacation and tackled some farm chores. I did the 50k Firecracker ride in Cary and didn't wreck. I did a track workout in cotton shorts and got inner thigh chafing.

I cleaned out the baby chick pens.
I got lots of dust up my schnoze.




Then,I decided we should tackle the goat barn. Because the flies are as thick as thugs. The fly population is inconceivable this year. I think our winter was too warm. At that bike race in Cary, there were flies on the cookies. I didn't feel so bad, even Cary has flies.



I don't know which idiot said goats will eat anything, they don't know the goaties!
They are picky, stubborn animals!Our goats will not eat "dirty" hay that touches the ground and is stepped on. This leads to a 20 tractor bucket loads of wasted hay in a few months.



We scooped and cleaned up crap today but we accomplished a dirty, back muscle building job.
It was a cooler and it was much easier to do it without dying from heat stroke. Dumbass me weight trained my biceps and back today though. I'll pay tomorrow.

My goats are extremely wasteful. I think I need to send them to a starving, 3rd world country. After one hour of a full rack of hay, this is what is left. They only eat the tops of the oats, and leave the stems on the ground to build up over time....then WE have to scoop it up pitch it!



I feel like I clean and feed the humans' and beasts' all time. I think I would make an excellent maid. I could get paid a lot for this if I went full time. I can deal with the never-ending cleaning and feeding battle.


I have this awful thigh chafing though. Is it because I ate too much ice-cream during my vacation?


The warm fuzzy I had this week..
I made Chai tea soap for this lady.It has been curing for about 4 weeks. I called her today to tell her it was ready. She was so excited, it is her favorite soap. She came over right away and bought the whole log!
70 dollars worth.

I didn't have to print or wrap anything!