Surprise.....It's a Boy!!!!

This is out of order but, we were coming home from our week at Hilton Head Sunday (more on that later) when we get a call from Rory's brother Reed that our guard dog Molly was delivering her puppies. All was going well except that she abandoned the first born. They tried to give it back to her but she wouldn't let them near her so they left it as close as possible. Although it hasn't rained in months here, this day it was raining. Anyway, by the time we got there the puppy had been exposed for several hours. Molly had not retrived it, soooooooo, he's two days old today, he eats every three hours and I'm real tired. I looked up on the internet what to do and created a formula for him. He eats like a champ from a baby bottle. If he makes it we will need a manly name for him since he is such a tough guy. Anybody got any suggestions?


 

Here come the girls!

Okay so technically it's 56 girls, 2 guys and a eunuch but who cares. Although we were planning on picking up everybody after we got back from Hilton Head, we leave this Thursday for our annual vacation with my brother and his family, it just didn't work out that way. We had bought our billy goat "Billy Bob" in March along with the two guard dogs. The seller agreed to hold them for awhile but after 5 months he was getting anxious. Our estimated time on completion of projects is still a little off. Anyway, we had to get them now. Sam, Rory's son, has a stock trailer and convinced us that if we were going all that way, gas being 3 dollars a gallon, we might as well pick up everybody. Meantime we were to pick up the cows (cows?) now known as the big girls, on Thursday then off again on Friday to get the little girls. And, we did!!! So without further rambling here they are

The Big Girls

I'm having trouble with uploading the pictures so I will continue on the next blog

Country Roads

"Country roads,take me home, to the place I belong"

This is the road in front of our driveway. Gotta love it! If you like country life that is.

So we've been busy. Old Front Gate

Here's the front gate as it is now

It may not look like much but it took us a week in 105 degree heat to get it done. See those posts? There were 5 of them to dig in 3 feet deep. Turns out it was rock under there. We were doing this inches at a time and ended up having to do it by hand. We had to drive about 10 t posts (the smaller metal ones that you clip the barb wire on to) by hand also. So even though to the city eye it's not much, we sure are proud of it! When there's time some time in my life, I hope to landscape it, but that's out there in those someday dreams.

We bought a goat head gate and a ramp and we built a chute

This red thing is a creep feeder. Creep is food and you can put down that gate thing and it will exclude the larger animals and only let the babies in. Pretty neat. So we're ready. Of course we didn't want to pick anybody up till after we got back from Hilton Head, we leave next week, but things never work out the way you plan sooooo stay tuned...................

Did anyone notice I'm getting better at the picture thing and I have discovered colors!

Long Time No Blog!

I know, I know but it's very busy around here. A lot has happened and will be happening in the very near future.

First the divorce. Well the dissolving of the partnership anyway. We talked a bunch and the 4 of us have decided that our timetable for goat ranching is just too different, so we are down to two, Rory and me. We did this in a very friendly manner and all is well with the 4 of us. The farm is still Double R but now it is only 75 acres. Reed and Sherri still live next door and are busy getting their redi mix cement plant up. Meantime Reed is still on the road a bunch with his trucking business.

Of course we are still fencing. I think it will be lifelong. This is our friend Frank. He came out this spring to help with the Fence. This is now known as Franks Fence. I need to get a little plague. This is a cross fence that divides the property about in half front from back. It was hot! But not as hot as now!! Have I mentioned that it's over a 100 degrees here every day? We have taken to getting out to the farm by 6am which is just about sun up. We are done by 11am. It is just too hot.

We were invited to go fishing at our friend Norman's house one weekend. He has a log home he built himself on a river. We had to take 4 wheelers to get to the fishing place. We had a blast and it was a nice break from "The Fence" We had a great time and we actually caught some catfish. It was a very fun day.

Some sad news. On June 13th we lost OB. He was the best dog. We had him for almost 12 years and he was truly a part of the family. I won't go into the details here but we had a great last day and the vet came to our house. We didn't have to move him and hurt him and we didn't have to scare him. You can't ask for more that that. He came to us from Debbie, Michael's sister, and she's the only one he ever bit, (he didn't mean it) Technically, he was Michael's dog but he really was mine. We miss him. He had a great last year. He lived on 3 acres, had a pond and a friend next door,Pete, who came to visit every day. Pete still comes to visit me every day and it is a big help. We will get more dogs sometime in the future but for now we are not home enough and I can't leave a dog home alone all the time. Pete is great. When I'm home he's here and when his parents come home he goes home. Kinda like grandchildren.

Anyway, time is up for now. A lot happening this week. We get the well on Thursday, house plans are in the works and it looks like we may get the goats sooner than we thought. By the way, we pick up the cows on Thursday. (Cows? What cows? Who ever said anything about cows?)

Till next time whenever that might be............................................