Whew – we are back from the 4-H Fair!! It’s officially over and I have to say it was a blast. Jacob showed well – but the animals didn’t do as well as we would have liked. It’s ok – it’s all a learning experience.
Jacob showed 4 lambs, 2 market hogs, and 1 dozen blue eggs. Everything sold either at auction or at private sale. It’s great since the money goes towards his college fund. The eggs sold at auction for $250!!! See that all you farmer’s market people? You are getting a deal at $3/dozen!! The lamb sold for $5.00 per pound (97 lbs) and the hog sold for $3.25 per pound (270 lbs).
As a family event, it’s great – though we are all exhausted to say the least. We made some great new friends who live right around the corner from us and they have kids our kids age! Today we picked up the animals that came back to the farm – 2 of the lambs, 1 new young ram, 1 new ewe and 3 new piglets. Set everyone up, fed everyone, ran to the grocery store and now we have to go pick.
Well about a week later since I started writing this thing – I’ve canned and done a lot more! Amazing thing is that I’ve just gotten started. Joe is out picking more tomatoes. On top of everything we started ’school’ since we are homeschooling this year. Apparently in my mind I didn’t have enough to do….
Canning has already been fun… busy but fun. I’m big on making spaghetti sauce and love seeing my shelf stocked back up with jars of sauce. I know I’ll probably get bored with it soon – but I’ll appreciate it more over the winter when we can’t just go out to the garden and pick tomatoes and have fresh spaghetti sauce with dinner.
Homeschool is an interesting thing. We have been doing about 4 subjects a day and getting ready to add Latin in. No I’m not supermom…. actually I get a lot more frustrated because I’m not used to being mom and teacher. I’m learning though I think as much as the kids sometimes. Can you remember what the 4 parts of a cell are? I know now since my son had a quiz on it this morning. I think I want to stick with 2nd grade stuff which is what Alexis is doing – I can do that! Actually it’s pretty fun, I like hanging out with the kids going over stuff and learning as they learn. But of course I’m a book learner and so I have fun reading everything. It takes a little away from what I need to do at the farm – but fingers crossed it will be worth it.
Back to the farm…… chickens aren’t laying as much as I want only 5 dozen a day. It stinks – plain and simple. I have the demand for 70+ dozen eggs per week and I’m getting 30 or so. Yeah tempermental creatures. Dang heat – blah blah blah…..
Back to canning…..
