Wordless Wednesday: Two Decades
Published on November 3, 2009 at 11:11 PM

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Beloved Dawn
Published on October 19, 2009 at 8:19 AM

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I've been working the night shift with Rachel for the family since we have a sick goat who can't get up if she falls, so we have to continue checking on her every so often. While I don't particularly like sleeping during the day, the benefits of staying up all night is  I get to see Moon and I get to see this:



and that I guess makes up for not sleeping. :D Look at those colors and those clouds! Gorgeous! It's a Beloved Dawn... kinda like my name. ;)

But as beautiful as that is... I still prefer regular sleeping hours, so I hope the goat gets better and moved back to the barn, so I can get back to sleeping at night and in my bed. ;) so if y'all could pray that she gets better. lol! also last week, I did some acrobatics in the dark over a lawn chair. :/ Bruised up my leg quite a bit and it is still pretty sore.
And that's what I've been up to... up... literally! :P

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I Always Said...
Published on September 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM

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I wanted to be a nurse... be careful what you say... God has a sense of humor. :) If you know me, you know I. do. not. like. goats! period! I never have. They kinda creep me out. But like I said... I always wanted to be a nurse... and now I'm a goat nurse. I've mastered giving goats shots... like with needles. :O Done it so much that I could walk you through giving one, actually here... I'll just show you.


That shot was 10cc of C&D Antitoxin of Equine Origin meaning you don't WANT to know what its made of... but it smells nasty and it lingers! bleh!
I remember the first shot I gave. It was about 2 years ago to one of the older goats and it was a 6cc shot of penicillin. I had read up on how to give the shot, but was so worried I would hurt the goat when I did it. It wasn't too bad tho. Since giving that particular goat a shot, I've given a lot more shots and she was definitely easier than some of the other goats I've shot up. :P

So yeah... I just knew y'all were dying to know how to do that, weren't you? :P didn't think so. But maybe someone will need that know how.
living a learning experience everyday,

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The Results of My Labors
Published on September 7, 2009 at 5:00 PM

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Here I sit doing nothing in particular, (weird, huh?) on this Labor Day. I've never actually understood the concept of Labor Day. You'd think that Labor Day would be the day we all labor on which would be nice since it would leave us with 364 days of no labor, right? :P Yeah, I know... I'm a dreamer. Anyway, here I sit not laboring, looking for something on Vostro and came the the folder dubbed, "Construction" which has all the pictures of all the work we did in May and June trying to finish the addition. As I was looking through the pictures I remembered I never showed y'all the doors I labored on even tho I Facebooked and Twittered about them ALL THE TIME! So what a perfect post for this Labor Day, right? Well I think so... so here they are :)

I had 4 doors that looked like this:



that went from that to this:



to this:



I stained them first and was going to do another coat of stain, but didn't need to since they were darker than we really wanted. So I stained once, but put 2 coats of polyurethane on all four doors. It doesn't sound like much, but it was a took me about a week for all four of them to be complete. Plus it was kinda confusing because you had to let the coats dry completely before adding another and sometimes I forgot which doors I did and which I didn't. :P

I also had to do all the frames around the doors:



And since those were already up, it was tedious standing there and staining/polyurethaning them. But they got done and they turned out wonderful! :D

Now... those doors were the easy part! I also had a set plus one of French doors with 15 window panes ON. EACH. SIDE. which equals to 75 window panes to stain! WHEW! talk about tedious! Word to the wise... Don't buy french doors! :P

So this what they looked like in the beginning:



I ended up staining these twice because the wood was different than the other doors and took the stain differently so I technically stained 150 window panes! :O


After I stained them twice, I added two coats of polyurethane... which is another 150. LOL! very tedious, but the end result is worth it:



Thus concludes my labors. Even tho it was A LOT of work, I'm glad I did it and finished it and very happy with the way the doors look.
I also stained the dining room floor and the spare room floor... but that's for a different time. I am really proud of myself for those floors. :D they are beautiful! I could totally get into doing this... I think! :P

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Bon Appetit!
Published on August 19, 2009 at 2:02 PM

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Mmm... good! Don't ya wish you would have stopped by for lunch? :)

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Girl Of Many Trades
Published on August 3, 2009 at 4:49 PM

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oh sheesh! Last week was some week! I was a goat doctor, a computer doctor, phone line doctor, a all nighter, an errand runner every hour, and more! :P

Last Sunday night, one of the goat mamas who had twins was really sick. Mom, Jocelyn and Rachel all did what they could to help her and thought she was doing better when they came up to the house late that night, but the next morning, she wasn't.
This happened after we had no internet all weekend... I still don't know why, but it only came on for about an hour and late at night! So we couldn't really research what to do for the doe. :( From Friday night to Monday, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what the world was going on with our internet. Unhooking, rehooking, rewiring, and resetting up everything for our router and modem, still nothing. FINALLY on Monday morning, I was able to get a hold of our internet provider. It was our phone line but I ended up getting it up and running! Only bad thing is is that our system is downstairs in the kitchen because I'm gonna have to rewire the upstairs line to get it to work there.
After I got that to work, Mom figured out what the goat would need, so Jocelyn and I went into TSC to get some stuff to help her get well. I administered a 6cc shot of penicillin to Bella, but it was too late. She ended up dying within an hour. :( This is the second animal we lost this month. Later that night, Jocelyn's laptop was freaking out on her and giving her the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death), so I ran some tests and diagnostics for 6hours. I just couldn't come up with the problem and solution so I ended up calling my IT uncle and he helped me run a special diagnostics and we found out that her harddrive was bad! :( ugh! We contacted Dell and they said they would ship us out a new one to install. After all that, two other does weren't doing well, so Mom and I made a 1am Wal-Mart trip to get some stuff to mix up for them.
 
Tuesday night one of the does went down and started getting really sick. We started giving her stuff and Jocelyn and I stayed up all night to check on her every hour. We also had to bring in the two doelings of the mama that died to feed them too. The doe was not doing good at all, so around 6am, Mom and I went into town and got some more supplies to make goat medicine. When we got home, I had to wrestle the goat for an hour to give her vitamins. Bleh! If you know me... I hate getting dirty and so wrestling a goat outside after it rained all night... I got dirty! :( BLEH!
Since TSC wasn't open when we were in town earlier, I ended up going back into town an hour later to get the antitoxin. The guy at TSC was kinda funny. After I spent however long trying to get the right medicines, I got up to the check out counter and the older man looked at me and says, "Looks like you're having 'one of those days'." I was like, "well... my day never really started because I've been up since 11am on Tuesday." We chuckled and he said "well I hope your day gets better." Then I went to fill up the van and grab something to drink, only get a call that I needed something else from TSC. Oi! :P So I headed back, got the medicines, and went to the counter. They guy goes, "Your day isn't getting any better, is it?" I laughed and was like, "not yet." I went home only to find out that Lillie was sick. :( I then gave the doe a 12cc shot of antitoxin and let me tell you... that is not easy! Have you ever seen a shot that was 12cc? oi! The doe didn't like it and kept moving and when you give a subcutaneous shot, you have to make sure to only get under the skin and not into the muscle or bone. I had to reinsert the needle a couple of times because she wouldn't stand still. After we finally were able to give her the whole shot, came back up to the house and cleaned up. Jocelyn and I were running on no sleep all the while. I had to run back into town to get some stuff for Lillie, but it didn't help her at all and a couple hours later, Mom ended up taking her into the ER because she had a rash, headache, neckache, and fever. Mom was worried it might be meningitis. While they were gone, I researched a link between what the goats had and if it could cause meningitis which it could. :( Thank God that Lillie just had an ear infection.
I installed Jocelyn's harddrive too... its easier than it sounds! I was really worried that I might mess something up at first, but it ended up being easy to do and after an hour or so of reloading everything, her laptop was working great! :D
After dinner, we went back down to give the doe her last dose of a gazillion medicines of the night and after spending an hour doing that, came back up and I collapsed in bed and didn't get up til 10hours later!

Woke up, still dead tired and Mom said we needed yet another something from TSC... you can imagine the looks I got from the workers who had seen me 10x in the last three days! LOL! I had to get some bigger syringes because the 12cc of antitoxin wasn't enough! WHAT?! I thought 12cc was ALOT of medicine... while I was looking at the syringes I saw a gigantic one that was 60cc and I'm thinking Oh Lord! I hope she doesn't need that much! So I called Mom and was like... "are you sure 12cc isn't enough?" She was like "no she needs more." :( So I went to grab the package of 20cc, and it was HUGE! I'm thinking "Oh my word". I do not want to shoot this much into that goat! it will take a year! Luckily, someone had put a 60cc package where the 20cc was supposed to be, so after I grabbed the 20cc, I was able to breathe a little bit more. :) After running to get popsicles, came home and gave the doe her bigger dose and spent an hour giving her the other medicine with Jocelyn and Rachel. Then we ate dinner, and I caught up on some of my computer work til late late.

I might mention that the doe is better. :) She was doing so much better that I only had to give her 1 shot of antitoxin on Friday compared to the 3-4 shots of antitoxin and penicillin that I had been giving! :D I spent most of Friday cleaning for Sabbath and then right as I was getting ready for bed, Jocelyn came in and asked me to fix her laptop! :O Somehow a spyware had gotten downloaded on it. :( I ran all our antispyware programs and nothing was working. Stayed up til about 6:30am trying to figure this out. I finally gave up because there was nothing I could do.

Woke up on Saturday and checked my email to see if I had gotten any answers to her spyware problem... nope no answers, but I did get an email that I had won a giveaway for an Asus Netbook! :D YIPPEE! I am like soooo excited. :D its pretty awesome! Then I reloaded Jocelyn's OS onto her laptop and its working now. Hoping that nothing else goes wrong with it!

So what a week, right? :) I guess its just another week in the life of a homeschool graduate, huh? Someone asked me if I was a vet student last week... Nope... just a girl living on a hobby farm with her family. :P If I had gone to college, I would have never been able to learn all the life skills and everything I learned this week. I keep telling myself that God has something in my future that I'm gonna need all this know how for, although I hope it has nothing to do with goats, because I can't stand them. Seriously... I DO NOT like them... at. all. So I'm thinking that all this goat doctoring is just for now. ;) lol.

Taking a deep breath this week... hopefully things will go back to normal, of course... what's normal anyway. LOL!
I'm sure you really didn't care to hear all about that, but hey, oh well! Wonder what this month will hold... can't believe its August already! sheesh! :P

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