Good Monday morning to all you critter and land loving folks. We are officially in the bum lamb season here again, thanks to neighbors blessing us with the little bundles of wool. We really do love it, and it’s fun to watch the kids take a chore over as their own. They are just so darn cute! Along with bums comes the need for bottles, for anyone who doesn’t know me well, I hate to spend money, I just don’t enjoy it. This fact makes me appear cheap sometimes, I prefer the word frugal. Well, I am happy to pass this dollar store hack along to you this fine day…dollar store baby bottles. They work just dandy to feed bum lambs and goat kids. I had become disgruntled with the bum bottles I had been purchasing from the farm supply stores. First, they were costing me more each year I had to buy replacements, and second, some brands the ounce labeling was washing off after just one use, leaving me with a sharpie in hand to remark my measurements multiple times. This makes a gal kind of cantankerous at two a.m. Lastly, how did they expect you wash those bottles with the tiny top? Dollar store bottles, a whole whopping $1.25, and the ounce is engraved on the side, never to wash off, sweet!!! My next frugal girl life hack came to me just today as I was working on refilling the drench bottle. The top off a deep bottle shampoo pump fits perfectly on the drench refill bottle, no need to refill the small one, and no need to buy a pump, so exciting! My last hack to share today is my, “You fence like a girl” life hack. I was moving sheep by myself a few weeks back and had come to my last panel of net, only to find I had no string to tie them together. It became a really off -day when I went in search of twine, or any such material that would work to tie the panels together, and came up with nothing, who cleaned out the side-by-side? I wasn’t in the mood to make one more trip back and forth, so I did what any good ranch girl would do and let my hair down…hair ties…who knew?! It has successfully been doing the job for over a week now. Follow me for more ridiculous, I mean, frugal ideas.

Blessings to you, yours, and your operation.