All is Well
Everything is going pretty good now. I got the dairy barn all cleaned out again today. I think I’m going to change the floor plan in there. Good thing everything is temporary in there. I knew I’d be changing things around this summer after seeing where the goats did what in there all winter. I’m also changing the fence around the outside of the barn, too.
I went with the neighbor to look at mini horses on Sunday. She’s going to get one for a companion for her other little mini. They are cute, but pretty worthless, unless you just like to look at them. I’ve thought about getting one to clean up the goat hay that gets wasted, but I’m not sure I want another critter to take care of. I have enough to do as it is.
Monday I start hauling hay. 30 tons, 810 bales all together. I’ll have help loading it, but I’ll be unloading it by myself. I’ll take my time and I should be fine. I’ll do one load a day, which is 90 bales. I should be able to handle that, I hope. I have to, there isn’t anyone else to do it.
The goats are loving it being able to roam the whole place now. It is so nice having a good fence up! Nellie isn’t having to work as hard, either. There aren’t any predators coming over or through the fence that she has to chase out. The deer have decided that this is a safe place now. There are two bucks, and a couple of does that call this home.
Monday we had a record setting rainfall of 1.35″ here. Now everything is nice and wet, at least for a few days. I’m glad it rained. I was getting behind on watering everything. One sprinkler isn’t going to cut it. John has planted too many things that need watering. He’s going to have to set up an alternative method of watering. Rain gutters on all the roofs would be good. We’d have thousands of gallons of water if they all had collection systems attached to them. If that had been set up with this last rain, that probably would have provided enough water for the rest of the summer. Another project on the to-do list.
Well, it’s time to put all the critters to bed. More as it happens….
