Burnt Fork Farm: WEEKEND HAPPENINGS!

We were getting low on our home-made lip balm.
So today was the day to make this stuff.

The supplies needed for this is:

1 T. Beeswax

2 T. Shea Butter (I use raw)

2 T. Coconut Oil

15-20 Drops Vitamin E Oil

A Double Boiler (I use a pot with a measuring cup with a handle)

12-18 Empty Chap Stick Containers

Something to stir (I use a chop stick)

Before adding the measuring cup in the pot, bring the water to a low boil. (It doesn't need to be full.)

Add the beeswax first. It takes longer to dissolve.

Stir often.

Make sure your sticks are ready to be filled when it all gets melted/blended together. I use rubber bands to keep them together.

Vitamin E is close by, it goes in last.

Beeswax is melted.

Add in shea butter.

Shea Butter is melted.

Coconut oil melts fast so I put in last.

Once it is melted turn burner off and remove the container. Thats why I use one with a handle and use a hot pad.

Add the vitamin E oil. This helps to keep longer. I use it but we go through ours pretty fast.

Pour them into the chap stick containers.

Let them sit a few seconds and top back off.

Today I made 14.

This is very similar to Dessert Essence Chapstick, Lip Rescue with Shea Butter. It is just lots cheaper to make yourself.

****Let me know if you make your own or make this.

The girls and I had some business to do in the city today. When we got home Tim had let down part of the electric fence and opened up the corral and feed some treats to the cows and bull.

Hope is use to being around the cows.

This is to prepare them for when Harley the bull gets loaded up. They are scared to come in and it will be easier to load him up.

Chickens don't mind the extra company.

This is our famous Buddy the rooster. He is the first rooster that came to the homestead. This is a hate relationship. We try and he just doesn't like anyone. I don't think there has been a person he hasn't attacked or attempted to attack.

Kaitlin is our official chicken wrangler!

His days are limited. He is a beautiful rooster but just can't have him attacking everyone.

We took a walk down to the woods. It was some nice weather on Saturday. Spring is getting close. This tree is a future fort tree the girls are planning.

~~~~SUNDAY~~~~

On Sunday morning I thought I could take my time getting ready. Tim was home and out caring for the animals. I wasn't even dressed and got intercom to come help, a few of the chickens from the Americana coop got out.

Yikes!

I threw my clothes on and got my recruits up and we were out the door. Tim was trying to captured them and keep the other roosters off of the now free hens. He wasn't sure how many and which ones needed to go back. Three got loose. We captured them and got them back in the coop.

Sassy-Pants has been pacing in the first stall. I decided her and the babies needed to move to the second stall. Getting the babies closer to the main part of the hen house. Makes it easier for releasing them. We moved the banty's over to the first stall and got things moved around.

We added a ladder in for the banty's to roost on.

I did take Sassy-Pants out of the stall and added her to the americana house. That didn't work so, we just let her be free. Not one rooster will leave her alone. Poor thing.

After finishing up all that work its breakfast time. Skylar is making scrambled eggs and hashbrowns. Tim is making pancakes. First he needs to grind some flour. Looks like he didn't seal it enough. He had flour everywhere! To top that off he put the wrong amount of sugar in the ingredients. Way too much sugar.

Let's do this again. He had to grind the flour again and this time Kaitlin put the sugar in.

The first batch kept sticking to the pan.

This batch looks better.

To top that off the coffee didn't brew correctly. Or should I say I didn't have the basket on correctly. This was a mess to clean up. Coffee grounds were everywhere including where you add the fresh water.

Now the second time making it I made sure the basket was in the slot correctly. Nothing like waiting on coffee. I think I could of drove to town and bought some at Casey's by the time I brewed two pots and cleaned up.

(Don't mind the time, I hardly never set the clocks in our house. I just click once to make it stop blinking).

Chickens got to enjoy the sugary pancake mix.

The outside front porch light hasn't been working or works then when you need it, it doesn't. So Tim took a look at it and noticed a wire was off.

He did put a new switch on while he had it open.

Testing the voltage going out.

Now the light works!

Now Tim is taking something off of this light so he can use it someplace else.

Tim is hooking up this light above my work bench.

Tim is teaching Kaitlin how to make a plug.

Tim hung a light over my work bench. I was needing this. Usually the garage door is open and there is plenty of light. But, with colder weather we keep it shut, which leaves the space very dark.

Kaitlin plugged in the light. It works, but it is suppose to work off of the light switch. Now on to plan B.

Instead he hard wired into the light halfway across the room that hangs in the middle of the garage.

Now it works with the light switch.

Thanks babe!

I was out gathering things for the next batch of baby chicks. I have some in the incubator and they will be hatching in the next week or so. Sassy-Pants had been following me around and was curious with what I was doing.