Listening: Yusuf (Another Cup), Dixie Chicks (Taking the Long Way), Liz Phair (Somebody's Miracle)
Watching: Not much of anything
Reading: Just finished "Horses and the Mystical Path"
Doing: Luckily, this is the biggest portion of this "Currnently" entry...
I have not been blogging so much as "posting" lately as I have been busy, but this isn't looking so much like a blog lately, so I should catch up. 

Life continues to build momentum with the coming of the new year.  John is still out of work on disability from his stroke and doing therapies several times a week.  Its been difficult for me not knowing the answers to so many parts of our life, as in, right now! this minute! and so I have had to let go and just move forward and if things have to change to meet our family needs, we will do that then.  This is an on-going challenge.

I have started to re-organize websites and I hope that people are enjoying them.  We get several thousand hits on our sites per month so I hope that's the answer.  I've added a guestbook to the farm website (check the navigation buttons) and you can always post comments on the BLOG.

I am still working at the office seeing clients and enjoying that time.  I am almost finished remodeling.  This was a project that got dropped in the spring and summer after John's stroke.  Now I try to go in a bit early and stay just a bit late and do small projects and its finally looking like I envisioned.  I will post photos on my website http://redwoodpsych.com when it looks and feels finished to me.  The theme is "therapeutic integrative holistic with a Waldorf flare," if that makes sense to anyone else but me

I've gotten a few fun projects completed at the farm.  We installed low energy lights on a timer in the chicken coop and are now enjoying lots of eggs again for about 10 cents a day.  The fixtures add to light in the morning and extend the light at night, so it induces the hens to lay.  Its very low tech and we are getting about a dozen eggs per day from 15 hens.

We are enjoying our new Kiger colt, Marcos.  He is beatiful and sweet.  We have started to pal him with our gelding so that when it becomes necessary they will be housed separtely from the mares.  We have two filly/mares coming 4 year olds who will be under saddle and hopefully starting some schooling dressage shows this year.  That brings up project #5001, scrape the riding area and put in a formal arena with good footing.  See Jolynn run large backhoe machinery.  Hehehe.  It should be interesting and I'm sure it will produce a few funny BLOG posts.

We just dried off our goats so they can rest before kidding and starting milk production again for their babes.  We have all 5 girls bred, including 2 Oberhasli's, 1 painted Boer, 1 Nubian, and 1 Saanen.  All 5 girls are starting to bulge and do that "pregnant goat shuffle" to get up and down.  We should have the first patter of baby goat feet around March.

The rabbitry is in full swing.  The first group of litters are ready to wean and most are already sold!  We have been very lucky to get great rare/heritage breeding stock and stock is good so sales are good.  This makes us happy as that means these breeds are less likely to vanish!  We have mainly Beverens and Lilacs, but we have a few pairs and trios of some breeds that we just couldn't part with.  Our new hanging cage system built from manufactured cages altered to work for our size needs is working well so the summer project will be to custom build a whole new one!  And, the usual rush starts again as the first show of the year is in 3 weeks...

Herb seed catalogs are arriving and I am tempted to try some new plants.  The rabbit poo is starting to go onto herb beds again and before long we wil have early spring shoots.  I have solar panels to power some low voltage lights in the greenhouse to get some new herb species starts and spring veggies.  Again, Jolynn building the solar power system, no matter how small and simple, should provide posting fodder

That's about all the current news, please check in and drop us a line!

Best Wishes for a Healthy and Abundant New Year to You and Yours,
Jolynn