Jumping the Moon Dairy - the next chapter

Mia spent the entire day with the general population goats and I am happy to report that none of them look worse for the wear. She was a very good girl and I think she spent most of the day sleeping under the hay feeder with my other LGD. She seems to do better with the kids that have their dams with them and when there is more space for the goats to just move out of her way. She got a little carried away tonight playing with the bottle babies so she got a time out while I fed them their bottles. She is much more interested in a kid that has milk on its face

She did torment my rooster though.

I will happily join that cheering section, I mean my name is Spirit... lol

Latestarter said:

Way to go Babs! With an attitude like that, failure is NOT an option! Go for the gold!
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I have run into a pretty big glitch with the dairy and I really need prayers right now. The person that is supposed to move my trailers to their final resting area and do the grading for the pad is separated from his wife (who is my friend) and it looks like they are getting a divorce. He told me today that he sold all of his equipment and that he will be moving. I had planned on him doing the work on 5/16, I was really pushing to get this done as I knew that there was a potential that he would do this. I just didn't think he would do it this soon. He told me tonight that he sold it all and that he couldn't help me. I told him I would rent him a Bobcat if needed and he said he would try and borrow it from the guy he sold it to. Please pray that he either comes through for me or that God places another person in my life that can do this. I am really at a loss right now and having a bit of a panic attack. I have absolutely no one else in mind for this project. He had the right equipment and has the right skills, I really was counting on him. I could probably find someone to do the grading but to find someone willing to move these trailers will be a bit more...quite a bit. This guy was willing to tackle the impossible and that is about what this is. He was going to move them with his Bobcat.

I have a million things to do to get ready for him to move them. ( yes, I am saying that by faith). My DH is only here on weekends so that makes it even more fun. We still have a buck pen to build (they are currently in the area that the trailers will be in), some shelter covers to dismantle, trees to cut down, old manure to move, 20 yards of gravel to buy, fill dirt to buy, fences to move, stumps to grind, and a shed to move. All that in the 5 days that he is here plus whatever I can do during the week while he is gone. I will get a young man I know to do the stumps and the take the shelters down once the bucks are moved. He can probably do fences too. But it is a bit overwhelming.

Then add to this that I am trying to get our house refinanced and I have a deck to finish and a wood stove surround to install so we can pass an FHA inspection; which is next week. Also some paint to touch up and I praying that the inspector doesn't care about the garage that has no rain gutter, the carpet that is not in the bedroom, or the baseboard that is not installed. I took the carpet out because of a cat and I want to install laminate but haven't had the time or the desire. I've been too busy building a dairy and milking goats. It takes a lot of time to milk 11 goats and I should be milking 11 more.

One of the things I will be looking for in future replacement does is the orifice size. I have some goats I can milk in 5 minutes or less, some take 15 minutes or more; it makes a big difference.

Many prayers sent your way! If I were closer I would help in a heart beat

That's a lot to have on your plate. Are there any 4-H or FFA groups that might volunteer to help with the smaller stuff if asked? Trade milk for work? I know God doesn't give us more than we can handle, but sometimes He wants us to delegate. Prayers sent your way.

Praying for you @babsbag!

Craigslist ad: Free wood to folks for cutting down trees and free compost for people to move the manure...?

Sorry you're so overwhelmed right now. Hope it all comes together for you. Wish I was closer to help...

oh @babsbag let me know if / how I can help

Babs, if only we lived closer. :/ Praying!