All the Creatures

If you live in the city, recycling is all about putting cans, bottles and cardboard in the roadside recycle bins next to your trash. For us county folk it is just a bit different. Since we don’t have recycle bins but still have trash bins we do our own recycling without the help of the garbage company.

For example, all our “green” trash goes into the compost pit for the spring vegetable garden. Brush clippings either get used as starter wood the next year once it has been seasoned or goes into the chipper to be used as mulch around the flower beds. We also recycle our used horseshoes. Since my husband welds he has made some nice western style decor items for our home. The wide shoes are made into shelf brackets and the smaller shoes made into items used in the kitchen.

Our recycling does not end there. I will often take old blankets and quilts and set them up in boxes in the barn for the barn cats to sleep in. Husband takes pride in the fact that he washes those blankets at least every 10 days to keep his cats comfy. When the blankets get really worn out they then get tossed or cut up and used to wrap pipes that might freeze in the winter.

We are always looking for ways to reuse items and often do.

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Our horses had been enjoying the unusual warm weather by sunbathing on the cold ground, but today the temperatures have been dropping and the next wet weather system is suppose to hit us tomorrow.  We are suppose to have snow on Sunday and Monday. When and if the snow hits I will have my camera ready for one horse’s reaction to it. You see, we have one horse who has never experienced snow and he is a highly reactive horse. I also promised to send the former owner a photo of him in the snow when it happens.

Of course during the very cold weather my dog does not want to venture outside too much either. When he needs to go out to do his business, he wants to come back it right away instead of wandering around. He tends to be just like me on these colder, fridged days…….I want to stay by the fire, except I also turn on the home theater sound system with the TV, pop in a DVD, grab a thick blanket and relax before the power goes out. Yes I live in that type of area.

Keeping my fingers crossed that the power doesn’t go out and all is well for the snow storm we are suppose to get.

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Today we have a guest blogger

The article written by Alonso Kramer

I had a lot to think about when I moved into my new farmhouse but I think what I was most worried about was the dogs. I’d gotten satellite internet Jennings Kansas service and arranged for the trash to be picked up and the movers got here without a hitch. Anyway, what I was worried about was that the dogs wouldn’t stay within the confines of the yard and since the property is just entirely too big to put a fence around I didn’t know what I was going to do. I had visions of them running off into the woods to chase bugs and birds and us never seeing them again, you know? But low and behold, when I took them out of the car they were actually terrified to have so much room! They stuck close to the house and though they’ve loosened up since we’ve moved in they still don’t like to go too far. Who would have thought they’d self-contain themselves after so many years of chasing them up and down the block?

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