New Tool...Queenacres goes high-tech!

Yea right.  Well it is a bit high tech for around here....but these devices have been around for decades.  After getting very little sleep for the past 3 nights waiting for Angel to have her babies.....I gave in.  I admit it.  I am lazy.  Getting up all hours of the night to put on muck boots and a heavy coat over my jammies to stumble out to the barn to check on a pregnant goat has gotten to me.  I've had enough.  So yesterday I started thinking about our different options to put some sort of a camera or listening device out in the barn to save my lazy self a few steps and gain a few winks of sleep.  Enter....my new partner....

It's a Graco Secure Coverage Baby monitor.  About $25 including tax + 3 AA batteries.

Yes, that's right.  I'm a whimp.  I didn't use one of these for my own children (probably because they were in the bedroom with us until they were 2)...but now I am old and lazy and my back hurts.

I wasn't willing to leave Angel alone for the 1+ hours it would have taken to go to Walmart....so I sent my pregnant daughter.  It's okay, she stayed in the baby department starry-eyed and making plans...before bringing my new little friend home.

Biggest drawback to this device so far is that you have to leave it on for an initial charge for 16 hours!

On the other hand, it's rechargable so I don't have to feed it batteries all the time (the base takes batteries in case of power outtage), but the handset is rechargable.

This morning it is my favorite radio station.  We have another winter storm coming in, and rather than having to bundle up and drudge out there to check on her....I can listen from inside and cook some stew and bake bread!

Of course being the paranoid goatkeeper that I am.....I have run out there 6 times already this morning trying to learn what the "noises" are.