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rhoda_bruce
Almost Self-Reliant
Sorry....musta got side tracked. I do believe eventually a cop looked at our caller ID and realized we were telling the truth and also arrested him. He left the neighborhood in shame.....not that I am rejoicing. He came to no good. He was from a rich family....grandfather was hardworking. Well, he and his 4 children all came into a certain amount of money, as a result of his grandfather's estate, but he somehow got hold of his 4 kids money. When his father went to check on the children's money and discovered they had none, he confronted the lawyer, in charge of the estate and the lawyer refused to talk. Apparently the grandfather didn't see to it that the minor accounts be secured, so now they have nothing. He lost his home and his marriage broke up. So I can't rejoice. I hope he finds peace in his life. I"m proud of what all he accomplished before he allowed anger and drugs to destroy him, but he didn't keep with it.
Well, I am about to have to wash up and do my Saturday night shift. My co-workers are trying to figure how to live on only 2 shifts a week, like me. Truth is, they can't. I'd have to give them a SS 101 lesson, just to give them an idea.
Kids tended to feeding chores this morning for me, so I could sleep and DS and I milked the goat and picked up one single egg
for our kitchen, before calling it a day. I did notice that there were some wet spots in the barn, but expected worse. I had dug some little trinches...just big enough to bury a large dog in some of the stalls and buried about 15 Mogan David bottles in each, capping them off with limestone to help with drainage and to use the mud from the holes to ever so slightly raise the ground level. Seemed like it helped. Think I will do it a bit more in some of the low spots.
Gotta decrease expenses soon. Got 3 muscovies, 4 pekings, 3 roosters and 3 geese to slaughter. One thing at a time.
I am worried about my goats because I never did find out what went wrong with my first goat....although I think it was her getting out and browsing where she shouldn't. My sister has an olliander. Well, I"m wondering if there is something I should be doing regularily to avoid my does just dropping dead. I'm told they are prone to coccidia and so far, I have just lucked out. They both seem fine, but I'd like to keep them that way. Thinking I should get an actual dairy breed, so when I milk, I actually get enough milk to make a difference to my family. Gotta make a milking stand though. If I showed ya'll how I'm pulling it off, ya'll just might not believe it.
Well, I somehow didn't rob my bees and I don't know if I'm too late. Don't know why I didn't. The thought of tackling it, is harder than actually getting there and doing it. Once I'm into it, its not so bad.
Well, I am about to have to wash up and do my Saturday night shift. My co-workers are trying to figure how to live on only 2 shifts a week, like me. Truth is, they can't. I'd have to give them a SS 101 lesson, just to give them an idea.
Kids tended to feeding chores this morning for me, so I could sleep and DS and I milked the goat and picked up one single egg
for our kitchen, before calling it a day. I did notice that there were some wet spots in the barn, but expected worse. I had dug some little trinches...just big enough to bury a large dog in some of the stalls and buried about 15 Mogan David bottles in each, capping them off with limestone to help with drainage and to use the mud from the holes to ever so slightly raise the ground level. Seemed like it helped. Think I will do it a bit more in some of the low spots. Gotta decrease expenses soon. Got 3 muscovies, 4 pekings, 3 roosters and 3 geese to slaughter. One thing at a time.
I am worried about my goats because I never did find out what went wrong with my first goat....although I think it was her getting out and browsing where she shouldn't. My sister has an olliander. Well, I"m wondering if there is something I should be doing regularily to avoid my does just dropping dead. I'm told they are prone to coccidia and so far, I have just lucked out. They both seem fine, but I'd like to keep them that way. Thinking I should get an actual dairy breed, so when I milk, I actually get enough milk to make a difference to my family. Gotta make a milking stand though. If I showed ya'll how I'm pulling it off, ya'll just might not believe it.
Well, I somehow didn't rob my bees and I don't know if I'm too late. Don't know why I didn't. The thought of tackling it, is harder than actually getting there and doing it. Once I'm into it, its not so bad.
