Thursday, October 15, 2009

Doldrums

It's one of those days.
I have a million things to do - and none of them are small things, so if I were to actually start to do one of them, I wouldn't get finished today. Incentive... meet window.
On top of that, Chili is being remarkably uncooperative. She shins down her T-stand every 10 minutes, grunting and squeaking and making me feel guilty for spending time with my computer. Having said that, it's a good thing: I feel she's getting her personality back somewhat and she's preventing me from turning my brains to mush with You-Tube and the like.

Whilst I'm having a downer on the day, there are still no sunflower seeds in Belize. The excuses are credible: the supplier ran out of supplies, the credit card payment for the supplier failed, the container is stuck, the container is here but there's no-one to unload it, manana, manana. I am promised Friday. Meanwhile, Milo is positively apoplectic, and the velociraptors have run out of unchewed arm-flesh to bite. I love this country, and ordinarily these mini-crises of sporadic availability do not bother me. The potato famine passed me by and the onion shortage was, well, short. But mess with my birds (and my gin) and I do get a little peeved. So, Friday it is.

We had a bird-chilipepper bush collapse on us yesterday (just shows how short of news I am). I pulled the entire thing into the babies' aviary then watched fascinated as half of the birds sat on the floor waiting for dropsies and windfalls. I have never seen them do that before. Is it a baby thing, or a bird-chili thing, I wonder? Could this be the subject of my long-awaited dissertation...

I promise - no more until I actually have something to say.

3 comments:

  1. How can there be no sunflower seeds? Can you grow sunflowers there? We use them to top dress the alfalfa pellets for the goats. What do ya'll pay for a 50 lb bag?

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  2. Hi Sandy
    Supplies finally arrived on Saturday. We are attempting to grow, but they never seem to come up true to type - I think they are GM or something. It's $70Bz for 25lbs - so $70 Us for 50
    Is that a lot??

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  3. Get ready to cry....We paid $14.99 for a 50 lb bag at Tractor Supply last weekend. It goes up and down with gas prices (shipping I guess?) but the most we've EVER paid is $23.99/50 lbs.
    When we get our farm set up in Cayo we'll have to figure something out about that. That'll be a while though, so I have time to plan, plus things may be different then. BOSS (black oil sunflower seeds) make a big difference in the health of our goats.

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