I know I have not
written anything in some time on here, partly due to money issues and
partly due to just being busy. At this time we have 2 interns
staying with us, both are here either because they want to learn
about how we live or because they want to live like this and wanted
an easy way to get a start. One of them is our current mode of
transportation as our van is officially dead. We are planning on
turning it into storage and using the oh so comfy seats in the house
(honestly they are -very- comfortable). The same one who has the
vehicle is also working at a town job 4 days a week to help out a bit
and to assist in getting them out of the debt issues they have.
As for what is
directly going on here, well first our money situation is starting to
turn itself around (btw my dear friend whom we got the water tanks
from payback is coming to you in a couple weeks fingers crossed).
We acquired some more goats, an adult and 4 babies.. 3 of them
however did not make it. It's a learning experience as one died due
tot he fact that it seemed to have been sick when we picked it up.
The other 2 shrugs I
am not sure what got them though I suspect bloat got one of them.
However we have our started herd of milk/meat goats.
We
also got a new -small- flock of just hens, they aren't producing the
amount of eggs I wish they were but again, it's building and the
point is to make it till spring when we buy a new flock. I have 2
rabbits at the moment for our meat production. (Oh for those of you
who whine about “don't hurt the cute bunny!” Let me tell you
that -cute- bunny has teeth and claws and can hurt you and have you
ever seen a cow that is raised on a farm and has good feed, plenty of
land to graze one? They are adorable, so if you think the cute bunny
shouldn't be hurt .. don't eat the cute cow). I have contact with
someone local who is going to sell me a good breeding stock on
bunnies so that for us is a big plus.
Our
garden this year has been doing 100X's better than we have had before
due to my new garden beds. I even pickled some cucumbers the other
day. I am still trying to get enough tomatoes to can so I can do
sauces and have chili fixings for all winter. I managed to pull 1
melon so far out of my garden, I think I still need to tinker a bit
to get good big melons from my beds.
Our
second intern is a young man, who has spent most of his life living
in the city playing video games and living the life of the average
city kid these days. He's been chopping and hauling wood for about 3
weeks now interspersed with some dirt hauling. He is -just- starting
to gain some muscle on his arms. Yes, we are still working on our
winter wood. We got a chain saw this spring that after 2 days of
work died, and when we took it back we needed the refund for bills so
the new chainsaw got put on the back burner till we could afford it.
We just got a new one and we are trying to get enough wood put up for
this winter. We have 2 buildings to heat this year, so we have 2
wood burners to feed all winter.
The
kids head back to school tomorrow morning, so they are excited; as
are we as we get quiet then. We'll even get more work done as we
won't be chasing them around to get the jobs they need done
completed. Oh for those of you who know me on FB, I really don't go
in there anymore unless there is something I feel is important enough
to get out to -everybody-, I am not even sending links to this blog
there anymore. For me FB has become a bit of a joke and I just don't
see the point in it anymore.
I
cannot guarantee I will keep things major-ly up to date as we have
tons of things going on around here and I had a free moment and
someone locally asked I update the blog as they feel what we are
doing would interest a good deal of people out there. I am honestly
not sure how true that is as from the bit of lurking I do have time
for online I don't see much activity of this kind out there anymore.
It is like homesteading in the woods -was- a fad that is now over
with. I might be wrong, but I don't see much in the way of people
being interested in it at this point.
Example,
we had another person here for about 3 months. Boy, was it a
failure; this young man thought that life here would be a breeze. As
whenever he was online we tended to be as well to chat with him.
What you don't wind up seeing is this young man stays up till 3 am
and doesn't wake up till about noon. By noon we have our morning
chores done and in the spring we don't work 100% of the day any more
than the rest of the year. However there are times we come very
close to it. He moved down here supposedly to assist us and as he
needed a place to live. He after a couple of times flatly refused to
do any work as quote”my back hurts too much for that”. Now
anyone who reads this blog knows that my partner Silver is disabled,
he has a bad knee and suffers from RA horribly. Some days he can't
even get out of bed it can be so bad. So we have a 19 yr old young
man who can barely lift a shovel to move some dirt because his back
hurts. However when we suggested he see a doctor he refused to do
that. So after a while of that and him wasting our food we sent him
away.
I
had at one time a person who looked at my blog and told me that what
we do there had to be a lie because no one could live like that or do
that much “stuff” in one day. It bothers me that (this person
was under 30 btw) people younger than me think life is just about
sitting in their chairs infront of a screen all day and walking to
the car to go to work is hard exercise. Where has the work ethic of
people gone?
Well
that is about ti from here right now, hope everyone is well and
healthy.
Be
Well, Be Safe, and Blessed Be...
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