Thursday, February 9, 2012

Hello again

Not that anyone noticed I was gone... but I did have a decent reason. My grandfather was in the hospital for ten days shortly after Christmas and my father has been in the hospital for the past three weeks or so following a large car wreck. We hope he'll be able to come home in the next day or two.

My uncle came out from California yesterday. He will be staying for a little less than a week and helping us  both get dad settled back in and do some work on the property.
One of the projects will be a fence. As I mentioned in my previous post I'd like to plant some alfalfa in the garden field. However when I take the goats for a walk they run through that field on the way back. Not only would they trample the plants, they'd probably also gorge. So the long and short of it is that I'm going to build a nice fence at one end of the field. Tobe will be helping me set the posts.

We'll also be moving the chicken fence to the base of the slope it's on now. The hillside's been getting eroded...

Well that's it for now.
M.

Monday, January 9, 2012

My thoughts and plans and deepest secrets...

Well... not really... I just thought I'd write something quickly before I went to bed. The weather for the past few days has been awful and it has given me time to think. And now writing a book on working goats and thinking about raising meat rabbits.

I called Harry today while I was at school (school has started again by the way) and he will be coming out when it dries up to plow a section of the land so we can plant an alfalfa mix. I'm planning to sell the hay to a friend who has a milking doe and I think the alfalfa's strong root system might improve the soil since MSD (local sewage department) messed it all up.

I'm not sure if I've posted about Harry before... he is a retired army mechanic who helped us harvest hay for the first time last year. I'm so grateful.... The hay is beautiful, the goats are wasting next to nothing and there should be enough to last us through to the next cutting.

Dad has cleaned up the barn beautifully and I hope to set up a station for reading fecals soon.... maybe I'll do a post on that :)

That's all for now... I have to be at class at eight and so I mun to bed.
M.

Wednesday, January 4, 2012