01/25/2009 Sunday. Lunch at a Friends Place. Treating the Cows. What Would I Do With Unlimited Funds?

A tiny bit of snow on the ground this morning and light rain later on. The arthritis in my knees was really acting up. Tomorrow is supposed to be sunny.

I skipped breakfast because Mary and Mike had invited us for dinner. She served us oven fried chicken, boiled beans with bacon bits and flavored rice along with the best part - a biscuit. Lunch was great but I don't think we'll want much for dinner. We're still stuffed.

Chas had a nap after lunch when we got home. I sat down for 20 minutes and played with Lucky and read in between pets.

It's always a pleasure giving the cows their treats. This evening's treat was ranch cubes (cubed alfalfa). The Herefords jockey for position with some of them moving from one end of the feeder to the other in the off chance that I wouldn't remember that they'd already had one or more treats and i would give them one. I feed on the north side divider and then move to the other divider at the south end of the barn. (The collapsible feeder is in the middle). That way all the cows get a more or less even opportunity to have a couple or three treats. I don't feed grain/alfalfa pellets in the evening, just in the morning.

Tomorrow I'll be going into the LCHD to do some more rearranging of the data files. They're somewhat disorganized plus some are duplicates. I don't dare delete anything. I'll just bring them together and let someone else make that decision.

I'd like to hang the 2 inch board with coat hooks that my Uncle Tom made for me in the guest bedroom. That will serve as a place for guests to hang up clothes when I have guests stay.

If money were not an issue... What an interesting question. I wonder what I would do? Probably cement the rest of the barn (the last bay) and create a pad out from the lean to out about 20-25 feet and further out put in a concrete pad with ecology blocks for the compost along with a tractor path to the compost pad.

I'd hire my basement cleaned of the flood mud and concrete troweled in to level the rough places, buy some wicker furniture that can be easily moved to higher ground when it floods and maybe hire a decorator to make the basement and first floor more friendly.

I'd hire someone to finish the electric fences for us and to put in a proper corral and some large corrals.

I'd also hire someone to organize my cottage garden and make it look pretty.

Not sure if I would buy more land. I'm pretty happy with the 23 acres we already own.

I'd donate enough money to the Pe Ell food bank so that they could open twice a month or even weekly.

I'd donate money to the Lewis County Health Department so that they could hire enough people to perform their functions without getting stretched so thin. I'd hire a LCHD Webmaster whose only function was to make the Web site a useful one for people in the community.

My needs are not great but I will likely think of things I'd like to do.