Diane

tigerdawn.blogspot.com "Talk To Me After My Tea"

I have been keeping a very rough daily journal mostly garden related for about 5 years now and someone talked me into the online version.

Now I include a little bit of this and that about my life on the farm in the Ozarks.

I am such an amateur with it, it is embarrassing but I struggle on.

Diane

By the way, I just found the family cow site through your blog. We're shopping for one right now so that site will come in handy, as will your blog.

Diane

I would love to find a MSH bull to use on her and a group of beef heifers I need to breed soon.

I can't remember if I have pictures of her on my blog or not....will have to check.

You may not need any advice at all about a cow, but I will be glad to share any of what I know with you. I have had milk cows before when the children were small and we first moved to the country wayyyyyyyyyyyy back in 1976 and we had a small dairy for 15 or so years.

Glenda

Blogspot finally gave me the capability to add links to other blogs and I've added both Glenda's and Diane's blog, which, by the way, has not been mentioned here yet. So the link is below. I'll put yours on there too, Tigerdawn. I have Diane's set up so that I get an e-mail whenever she posts. I tried to do that with Glenda's but it didn't work. Now that I've got links to them on my blog, though, I can see whenever there's a new post, so I might just go entirely by that. If it looks like I've quit following your blogs, I haven't, I'm just going to go about it a different way.

Mine is kind of rough. I'm learning how to do things as I go along. I take pictures only good enough so people can tell what they are LOL. I spend so much time with the words that I don't have the time to play with the camera. That faded background thing that Glenda has down looks great, though, and is real tempting for me to learn because there's usually so much junky stuff in the background of my pictures.

These blogs are a lot of work sometimes. My major problem is one of organization. I'll take pics to put on the blog, then have trouble finding what I did with them. Etc.

I tell myself every morning that this is the day I'll start cleaning and organizing and then I'll do anything else but that just because it overwhelms me so. After all summer kind of letting the clutter collect because of the garden, and now all the clutter FROM the garden, it's become a monumental task that I'm just going to have to break into manageable segments in order to be able to tackle it.

I sure wish I could have a cow and some chickens. But even if I had the room, which I don't, it's against the city code here.

Beth

(I don't even remember what in the world I intended to say up there but it sparked another thought and my mind jumped track. LOL)

Glenda, I can use every last bit of cow help! I remember milking cows as a kid but not since then. We're complete cow newbies and will more than likely get in way over our heads. Story of our lives... It seems that how we do everything, just jump in with both feet, trial by fire, and all that. We just missed some great Brown Swiss gals from a friend of hubby's. We should have put the word out sooner so now we have to just have a bit of patience. In the meantime, I'm going to start reading the KAFC forum every day. Maybe I'll have a clue by the time we get one.

We're new to dairy goats as well so are trying to learn as we go. We've had meat goats before but this is our first go-round with milkers. So much to learn!

Diane

Diane

I do have a long standing website (10+years now) that gets updated every once in a while, if y'all wanted to read that.

Littledog, you need to try the E Blog. You can post easily, in fact I have posted a few times before I was ready! I am doing this by trial and error (lots of errors)

I just visited your website and copied three recipes.
Loved it.

Diane, you have given me an idea. I will do some posting about owning a milk cow. I am just amazed at some of the posts on KAFC. They start out so starry eyed and completely in the dark about the daily routine....I feel so sorry for some of them who really get in over their heads quickly.

Thanks, Glenda! I'm the anal, over-research and - think everything person and hubby's the impulsive, show up one day with a water buffalo or whatever & let the chips fall guy. We usually balance each other out pretty well but not always. LOL He did raise some beef calves as a teenager so I guess that's something, probably just enough knowledge to make really big mistakes. :-P

Diane

Beth

I'm a technodummy so, really, it's amazing that I can even make instant coffee in the microwave without blowing up the county.

Diane

Blogspot doesn't always work right for me. It took forever to be able to access the ability to add a bloglist. Now I'm trying to get it to show blogs by label and the gadget dohickey isn't working again. I'll have to keep trying till things work right.

I suppose I shouldn't complain since it's free and all, but it sure is frustrating when you know you should be able to do something easily and the thing they say you should click on to do it, just isn't there. Hopefully they'll get things worked out soon. --Ilene

Gee whiz, now when I tried to post this I got an error message. I guess nothing is working right today.

Love reading through some of your posts...you can learn a lot about other people by reading what they post.

Mandy

I don't update near like I should -- I'm going to try and do better ; )

Diane - I really enjoy doing the lard.

Still trying to figure out why I can see my profile pic and no-one else can though....oh well, I guess I'll figure it all out eventually :-)

Diane

http://flowersinmygoatsmilk.blogspot.com/

randy

Jessaka, what problems are you having exactly? Maybe one of us can help you figure it out.

Diane

Randy, I added you to my follow list. Awesome pic :-D