My Own Particular "Chaos Verse" with Apologies to Earlgreytea68 for the Title Swipe

[amberfocus]

Life has been ridiculously busy around here. Who knew there was just so much crazy involved in selling a house? We are in the home stretch, though. Now we just have to get someone from the bank out there to do an appraisal and say whether or not they will give the buyers the loan. I hope so. It's worth $17K more than the price they are paying. If that goes well then we are on track for closing this month, possibly sooner than the contracted end date of the 26th.

Crazy farm stuff continues as well. Our current count of critters is 2 turkeys, 9 chickens, 7 ducks, and 14 rabbits. We lost Sienna, but I am growing up one of her doe kits, Ruby. Ruby is almost 5 months old. I won't be keeping her long term unless she settles down, but I want a doe kit out of her. We didn't work with her as a baby on socialization because we hadn't planned on keeping any kits from that litter, so she's more skittish than I like for day to day dealing. But we can start with a doe kit from her from day one.

This is one of the rare Februarys where DH will be home for my birthday. He gets late Wednesday night on the 11th, and the 12 is my birthday. That almost never happens. He'll also be home for my son's birthday in March and our 20th wedding anniversary also in March.

I am planning my spring garden. I've already got garlic, chives, and some small onions coming up. We've had a ridiculously mild winter, unlike everyone else in the country.

I haven't been writing much. But I've gotten an idea for a novel so may start working on that soon. It is one of those ideas that won't get out of my head. I hope to also finish The Watchmaker's Daughter, but I've kind of lost my Who muse. I hate having so many unfinished stories around, but what am I going to do? If it won't write, it won't write.

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[azriona.livejournal.com]

You're selling the house? I have to assume this is not the house attached to the farm, since you are apparently not selling the farm...

Yay for DH being home for your birthday, though. (I have made that yellow cake recipe of yours several times since you gave it to me - excellent every time, too, thank you!)

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

We are selling our house that we own free and clear, but haven't lived in for a few years. The house we are living in is not our house, it belongs to my mother. The mini-farm is there. Once our house is sold, we will start looking for a five acre spread in an agricultural zoned area, but it will probably take another year before we find it. We need something with a mother-in-law type of apartment or a gardener's cottage or something, so that when my mother starts to feel like she can't keep up the place anymore she can come live with us, but separately. She's 75 and needs a small amount of assistance now, like someone to help her bring in feed and hay and straw.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Oh, and yes, it is a very good cake. I futzed with it a long time to get it to be so moist. I'm glad it has worked out so well for you.

[jer832.livejournal.com]

Good luck on the sale.

The novel you mentioned - it's not fanfic?

I haven't been around lj for various and not all healthy reasons. Just in case I miss your birthday, please know that I am thinking of you and wish you a healthy and happy year.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

No, it's not fanfic. I can't remember the last time I felt like writing fanfic.

[editrx.livejournal.com]

Lighting candles on that closing! I know what that's like.

I thought of you the other day when I was not only helping, as I've been "trained" to by a friend and neighbor to help gather the chicken eggs, but she's had not one but THREE lamb TWINS in the last two weeks - and I held the lambs while she did the docking. Two of them have been refused, so I'm also helping with the bottle feeding. We took one to my bookstore for an author signing because it was her feeding time! She stole the show. :)

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Bottle fed babies are such a delight.

[develish1]

ooh, good luck with the sale love :)

shame your muse isn't being cooperative on the unfinished stuff, but I certainly know how that feels, I've got a few of those sitting on my hard-drive too, and mine aren't even multi-chaptered ones *sigh*

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

We close on the 6th. We've already signed, just waiting on them and their stuff.

[susanb03.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[pncwho.livejournal.com]

Have a wonderful birthday!

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I did.