After almost 4 weeks off-line, I'm finally back. In the beginning, it was frustrating knowing I was missing my connection to the world and information. In the end, it was nice. I missed some things and activities, but my life was calmer and easier to manage. The only thing I was missing were my family and friends.
New on the farm: We have two 6 month old bulls (yet to be castrated), Black Angus - Abby named them Cheeseburger and Steak. They are tagged though and we usually end up calling them #11 and #2. They can be very cute in the face, but mostly, in the last week have been very ornery. We have a strong perimeter electric fence, but within that fencing we are feeding them on a pasture rotation schedule. Well, they don't seem to want to stay in there. We've spent more time trying to get them back in (begging, pleading, coaxing, bribing with alfalfa cubes, sorta rounding them up - you can guess how much help Tucker is!) and fixing the fence up. This morning when we woke up they were still in the fencing. We decided to run another hot wire lower down, and by the time I was bundled up - they had gotten out! Dan was at the station, so I decided to forget it for a while until they wandered closer to the fence. A few hours later they were, so I shut the power off, carried the wire and cutters and tempting alfalfa in a pail down to them, unhooked the wire, sloowwly coaxed them in the pen, reattached the old wire, ran new wire, switched on the power, tested the line, gave them a small amount of hay, more water and prayed for the best. And THANK YOU, Lord!, they are still in the pen! I really think #2 has figured out if he get out, he eventually gets alfalfa cubes...
We had a beautiful 50 degree day, so we cleaned up the garage, Abby cleaned up after her rabbits and I cleaned out my chickens. After I was done in the chicken coop, I got "Scweaker" the 4 month old bunny out of her cage, pulled a chair over in front of the coop, put my dirty, boot clad feet up on a straw bale and enjoyed holding the bunny and watching my "girls" (chickens) come into the coop and rearrange the freshly applied straw to their liking. Thank you, Lord for this place. Thanking him for this opportunity. Praying we'll use it for His Glory. I still can't believe we are here!
I am getting so much egg business now, I am going to have to double my layers for the spring!
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Hilarious!!! I am picturing just how funny it will be chasing bulls into the pen with 4 ft of snow and a wind chill of -45!!!! Do you castrate bulls? What does it do, make them calmer?? Like dogs? Funny/ Love hearing about your "calm" life, am glad you are back!!
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