Weekly update - February 24, 2023

We'll dive right in, but this may be short because I'm having trouble remembering what happened of any note this past week.
  • Bristol's leg is looking much better. I'm still wrapping it, but the bandaging has been downgraded to something much smaller.
  • We got three eggs from the chickens this week. 
  • Last week, one of the (many) times I was at the library, I happened upon a Star Wars craft book that I thought K. would be interested in. He was, but I was a little unprepared for the craft he immediately chose. It was making some sort of Star Wars character out of a dried out apple. Lovely. So this is what has been decorating my kitchen counter.

  • Y's new birds are settling in. She loves them and has been spending a lot of time with them. Her goal is to get them well hand trained.
  • H. has been very interested in some of the many drawings books we have. Here is her latest drawing. What fascinated me was watching her use a ruler to get the really straight lines.

  • We had an absolutely beautiful sunset the other night. 
  • P. is in Florida this week and next week grooming for a horse show. That means that Midnight is here and missing her very much.
  • If anyone asks me to describe myself, I have a new descriptor thanks to the course I'm watching while I walk in the morning: relentlessly curious. 
  • Our co-op was cancelled once again this week because the church where we meet had lost power due to the ice storm which had passed through the day before. Our house was just south of the ice and we only had rain all day. 
  • A. stopped by with her kittens today. They are still very cute, but much bigger than they were.
  • Nefertiti does not like kittens.
  • J. received an email from Ticket Master offering him the chance to register to buy two Taylor Swift tickets (no doubt in an effort to make people not hate them.) If the tickets became available, that is. But their availability doesn't really matter because two tickets would be almost worse than no tickets when you have more than two children wanting to go.
  • Many people in the house are starting to become very anxious for warmer weather. I can't say I blame them.
  • Our van went into the shop last week where they discovered the entire fuel line needed to be replaced. Then the van came home wile they got the parts. Yesterday the van went back in. It is now fixed and we can pick it up. That's good. But it also means we have to pay for it. Fuel lines are not inexpensive it seems. We feel caught between a rock and a hard place. We still need the van because it's the only vehicle we all still fit in. It's becoming increasingly expensive to keep running, even marginally. We can't afford another car that would be big enough for us to fit in. Heck, we can't afford any of it. The while thing is frustrating and stressful.
  • And on that happy note, I'll leave you with a brief advertisement. I have horse classes scheduled for the spring and it would be fantastic to have them fill. If you're in the area, feel free to pass the information along. Equine Education at Bittersweet Farm 

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