Yesterday was very nice around here.  The rain held off to the afternoon and I was able to get the BarnCam business back under control.  We got all the orders from the dairy show out the door and even took a couple more.  Everyone keeps asking me about how the show went with the economy the way it is.  The show was neither up nor down at this point. We had the same amount of sales as usual.  I am hoping this week to get some more of the high end calls for DVR systems.  I have 2 so far. One is in Iowa for a handicapped farmer that can no longer use his legs.  They have a grant so that he can move the camera around the barn to watch everything.  I have been researching it now and there are actually computer mice that work based on head movements.  This way he could control the DVR and move the camera all over the internet. Pretty cool.   I will let you know if this all works out and we install the system.

The horses are all starting to get a winter coat.  Just in time for winter.  LOL! We have been keeping Zippy in the big stall but using the infrared camera so we can keep the lights off at night. He is the only appaloosa in the barn right now so we want to keep him on camera, but we also want him to grow a winter coat so we need to keep the lights off.  The shortness of light helps trigger the body to know winter is coming.  Similarly we do the opposite by putting the lights on to make the mares think it is spring.

 The highlight of the week was a call from Australia! A guy from “down under” wants to breed his mare to Zippy.  I was able to talk to him this morning and it seems like everything is a go. I might have to take the entire family there in the next couple of years to visit the Zippy foals in NZ and Australia. Their breeding season is right now, the opposite of ours, so I need to hurry up and get everything arranged.