This month has been hard on the pocket book. First Buck had to go to the vet.... twice... for that thing on his face. That was 180 total for both visits. (this is why I love my vet.) Next up is car registration, I have just plum forgot about it and I need to go get it done. So there is 250 out the door. Next up is our gym membership which I forgot to change my credit card on...... goodbye 100 bucks. I need to pay my dentist, 70 bucks. Then all of our other monthly bills. Sigh. Thankfully Buck's bills are getting paid off through working at AutoZone. I did tell Joe that we are eating our blow money this month and whatever extra he makes at work needs to go into the account. He's not happy about it, but understands it. Thank god next month I can work full time! Then we need to pay for my school, which is 3800 bucks. Ouch. We need to cash in a mutual fund we have been saving for that. Need to cash in another mutual fund to fund our savings (don't really need that fund anymore)
Thankfully the other mutual funds have all been converted to Roth IRA's, including Joe's traditional IRA. Our goal there is to get an IRA open for me in December, granted we get our savings built up to our 10k goal, which if the spending of bills on stupid crap stops, we should have no problem doing.
My plan in August is to work as much as freaking humanely possible. Since I won't have school to slow me down I should be able to work every single Sat and or Sun that month. Which will be nice and go into savings. I will be so burnt out by the time this is all said and done. But in December when I finish my fall semester, we have our 10k in the bank, and we are finally able to focus on paying off the house, it will totally be worth it. It's just a daunting task to start out at.
This post should have gone in my debt thread, but eh, I just post here more often. And besides, we don't have any other debt but the house. Which we hope to have paid off in 5 years. *crosses fingers*
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Gosh I should post more....
Life is going good right now. I currently have an A in physics and a C in chemistry. Why a C and not a goddamned B? because I missed a few things on the last test and took my B to a C. Not happy or proud about it, but I will figure it out.
Chickens are doing fine, getting ready to take them off their starter feed and switch them to a adult feed you could say. Since I do have a mixed age flock, I've been trying to figure out what to feed them. I think I have settled on a game bird feed for the time being. Something that is 18% protein and non-medicated. I dunno yet though, I need to call the feed store and talk to them. Stupid chickens.
So we were going to build a run that was fully enclosed so the girls couldn't get out. But we kinda stopped the enclosure where the top door was supposed to be and the girls get out. I don't particularly care, as long as they stay in our yard, which they have been. They can fly about 3.5 feet, well not all of them. The Jersey Giants seem to not care so much about flying, I hardly ever find them in the yard. I rather like the Jersey Giants and my Dominiques... the easter eggers though? Screw those birds, it's fun to have green eggs but not so much to deal with their stupid stupid natures.
I sold two birds to a family that wanted chickens for their kids. I sold them the Jersey Giants as those are known to be a good docile breed and good with kids. I have one confirmed rooster and its a Jersey Giant. I'll get some pics of him tonight, he isn't crowing yet and it could be a good long time before he does. We may keep him depending on how loud/annoying his crow is.
I sanded the run down with about 2 inches of sand, I need about 4 more inches. About 800lbs more of sand. Off to home depot this weekend to get more. Everywhere I've read has said that sand is the best medium for the run because it offers excellent drainage and it dries to fast. So far I like it and I will do just about anything to keep the smell to a bare minimum. I had friends over that didn't even know I had chickens until I showed them. They said that they were expecting my yard to smell. Nope, no smell here.
Farmers markets are abounding everywhere! Next weekend I plan to hit a few and stock up on tomatoes and peppers and then spend Sunday canning. My tomato plants outside I've not allowed to set tomatoes until they get a little bigger, so they have more time to go before they give me what I want. I also am sick of weeds and grass in the garden and have decided that this Sunday I am covering the entire thing but the tomatoes in contractors plastic. I'll let it die and remove the plastic in the fall. Which will work because then the chickens can finish picking up the mess for me. They are awesome little foliage killers.
What else, what else.
Chickens are doing fine, getting ready to take them off their starter feed and switch them to a adult feed you could say. Since I do have a mixed age flock, I've been trying to figure out what to feed them. I think I have settled on a game bird feed for the time being. Something that is 18% protein and non-medicated. I dunno yet though, I need to call the feed store and talk to them. Stupid chickens.
So we were going to build a run that was fully enclosed so the girls couldn't get out. But we kinda stopped the enclosure where the top door was supposed to be and the girls get out. I don't particularly care, as long as they stay in our yard, which they have been. They can fly about 3.5 feet, well not all of them. The Jersey Giants seem to not care so much about flying, I hardly ever find them in the yard. I rather like the Jersey Giants and my Dominiques... the easter eggers though? Screw those birds, it's fun to have green eggs but not so much to deal with their stupid stupid natures.
I sold two birds to a family that wanted chickens for their kids. I sold them the Jersey Giants as those are known to be a good docile breed and good with kids. I have one confirmed rooster and its a Jersey Giant. I'll get some pics of him tonight, he isn't crowing yet and it could be a good long time before he does. We may keep him depending on how loud/annoying his crow is.
I sanded the run down with about 2 inches of sand, I need about 4 more inches. About 800lbs more of sand. Off to home depot this weekend to get more. Everywhere I've read has said that sand is the best medium for the run because it offers excellent drainage and it dries to fast. So far I like it and I will do just about anything to keep the smell to a bare minimum. I had friends over that didn't even know I had chickens until I showed them. They said that they were expecting my yard to smell. Nope, no smell here.
Farmers markets are abounding everywhere! Next weekend I plan to hit a few and stock up on tomatoes and peppers and then spend Sunday canning. My tomato plants outside I've not allowed to set tomatoes until they get a little bigger, so they have more time to go before they give me what I want. I also am sick of weeds and grass in the garden and have decided that this Sunday I am covering the entire thing but the tomatoes in contractors plastic. I'll let it die and remove the plastic in the fall. Which will work because then the chickens can finish picking up the mess for me. They are awesome little foliage killers.
What else, what else.
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