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mousmeThe quail laid their first egg today. I am very excited! The first egg is always the most exciting. I expected the quail to need at least two weeks to de-stress and feel comfortable enough to lay, but here we are, four days later, with our first egg! Quail eggs are so pretty, I love the speckling. I will put it carefully in an egg carton and wait for more eggs to appear now (it might take a while). It's about three quail eggs to make the equivalent of one chicken egg, so it's going to take a minute for me to have enough eggs to do anything meaningful. Once we've moved I'm going to buy an incubator and hopefully hatch out more quail, and I may look around for local suppliers to get different genetic material into the breeding pool, just to be on the safe side.
I am going to have to be careful about how much money I spend on the chicken math. ;) This move is going to be incredibly expensive (dear God, the lawyer's fees and land transfer tax ALONE make me want to weep), not to mention I need to get some furniture and equipment to maintain the property. I bought some packing supplies today, and of course things have gone up in price thanks to recent economic shenanigans. I remember when I bought my house in 2011 that it felt like I was hemorrhaging money the first 12 to 18 months of owning that house, and I suspect this will be no different, and probably worse, given how much more property there is and how much more there is to do. *sigh* Being an adult is HARD.
I spent most of today being useless with a migraine, which checks out. I don't get migraines often anymore, but they've always had a tendency to hit hardest right after a period of stress, once I've let my guard down. Once I was sufficiently recovered I pulled the beets out of the vegetable crisper and made borscht. The recipe makes a truly industrial quantity of the stuff, which is too bad because KK won't touch it with a 10-foot pole, and that means I am going to be eating borscht for the next week. XD I'm not too mad about it, but it would make life so much simpler if KK ate more "peasant" foods, not to mention how much cheaper it would be to feed the two of us. I'm hoping
All righty. It's time to take myself to bed. Catch you on the flip side, friends!
I am going to have to be careful about how much money I spend on the chicken math. ;) This move is going to be incredibly expensive (dear God, the lawyer's fees and land transfer tax ALONE make me want to weep), not to mention I need to get some furniture and equipment to maintain the property. I bought some packing supplies today, and of course things have gone up in price thanks to recent economic shenanigans. I remember when I bought my house in 2011 that it felt like I was hemorrhaging money the first 12 to 18 months of owning that house, and I suspect this will be no different, and probably worse, given how much more property there is and how much more there is to do. *sigh* Being an adult is HARD.
I spent most of today being useless with a migraine, which checks out. I don't get migraines often anymore, but they've always had a tendency to hit hardest right after a period of stress, once I've let my guard down. Once I was sufficiently recovered I pulled the beets out of the vegetable crisper and made borscht. The recipe makes a truly industrial quantity of the stuff, which is too bad because KK won't touch it with a 10-foot pole, and that means I am going to be eating borscht for the next week. XD I'm not too mad about it, but it would make life so much simpler if KK ate more "peasant" foods, not to mention how much cheaper it would be to feed the two of us. I'm hoping
All righty. It's time to take myself to bed. Catch you on the flip side, friends!
