Our homeschool Meadowlark Academy is on summer break and we've been doing lots of projects around the ol' homestead.  One of my personal projects is to organize my time so I have a little time to blog so I might actually make entries on a regular basis.  Since I do best when I have a track to run on, I'm going to organize my blogging week as follows, subject to change of course!

Monday -- This week's projects

Tuesday --  Critter report

Wednesday -- Garden report

Thursday -- Homesteader How-To

Friday -- Helpful links

Saturday -- Daisychain Ramblings

Sounds fun, doesn't it?

Since I've missed my weekly critter report by my new schedule, I'll give a partial one now since thats where the action has been this spring.

We now have a billy-goat on DaisyChain Acres.  He's a little Kinder billy who will be bred to our two Kinder does.  I never thought I'd own a billy but I can't find anyone within a two hour drive who has a kinder buck we can use and it's pretty silly to have goats you can't breed to get new kids and milk.  His full name is Boss's Barnyard Kandy Kane, Kane for short.  He's only three months old so he can't breed yet, but he'll be ready in a couple-few months.  He's just recently started to get his billy-goat "aroma" so we need to make a separate pen for him so he won't be making our milk taste funny, not to mention when he's old enough to impregnate our does, we need to know who is bred when.  We're keeping one of our little boy kids from this spring to keep him company - we'll "wether" (neuter) him so he won't be all stinky and "bucky" and he'll make a fine pal for Kane.

Last week our meat chicks went into the freezer.  We ended up butchering them a week or so early because it's been getting so hot and we started losing them to the heat.  Cornish crosses don't do that well in 95+ weather and it's been getting hot here early this year.

We have another hive of bees now, due to one of our hives swarming lasts month, a story I'll tell later.  I was able to "catch" the swarm and they are settled into a new hive.

More to come later!  I'm looking forward to catching up on a few favorite homestead blogs now.

JennMarie = )