Chicken Scratch

Chickens like to scratch. We all know and love the chicken as it scratches the ground, pecks the ground, repeats, waddles on.... Well someone forgot to tell my chickens to waddle on and now I swear they are digging areas for me to plant next years bushes or something. Chickens - you gotta love 'em.

Speaking of my lovely farm animals I have to say that my bunnies are so cute these days. They are like little tiny bunnies and you have to be careful not to let them out of the nest because they become part ping pong ball/ part bouncy ball. The dart from one place to the next and don't know what to do with themselves. If I didn't think it was mean to them (and Precious) it would be hilarious. My goats are as goaty as ever. We are contemplating returning Spot to Hope (the lady we got him from) because of his excessive bad manners. He even butts the chickens! (again- would be VERY funny if it wasn't mean)

So the deer slayers (Dan and Austin) are going to go hunting in the morning tomorrow. Hopefully they will get another deer. We would like to get a couple hundred pounds of deer meat in the freezer this year. Between the cow we are having slaughtered (a friend of mine raises them hormone and ABT free and essentially organically) The pig we are having done the same way, the deer and our rabbits we should not have to buy meat at all the entire winter (unless we want chicken breast or something)

I am considering doing an experiment. I have so much excess in my pantry and freezer that I want to try to purchase only staples for an entire month. Meaning Milk, Bread (that I can't make -like for sandwiches) Flour, Sugar and bare basics like that. I would like to see how I can utilize what I already have and really reduce the amount of $ spent per month on unneccesary items. If I do this experiment I will do it in Jan. I think... since there are no holiday dinners to be making at that time. Until the official experiment I am going to attempt to initiate this thought process into my way of life.

I will report back on tomorrows hunt.