Jumping the Moon Dairy - the next chapter

You are simply Amazing to me....and ya make me feel Lazy. I have to recoup for a couple of days after a hard days work. If there was an emicon of hiding under a leaf I'd use it....the chair is too high.

WOW! I'm embarrassed to say it has been quite a while since I read your journal, @babsbag.

I've been busy with other things & don't usually spend a lot of time looking around, when I do log on to BYH. I have flagged this, though, and hopefully will get alerts when you post.

Gees, you have been through the ringer, Babs!

I was so sorry to hear that you lost your mother, right in the midst of all those frustrating things going on.

How fortunate for your DH, that you had EMT training & were able to recognize his symptoms & get him to the ER, where they were able to correctly diagnose his problems.

I was so sorry you had to find a new home for Alondra. How sad that she & Mia couldn't get along. I have heard that about females. In fact our dog's dam & her sister couldn't get along & had to be put in different pens. Our Violet is definitely "alpha" over her brother Deo. She is our patroller - always on alert. Deo is the protector - quick to herd the goats to the goat shed if he senses danger. Many times he barks when she barks. Sometimes he looks around like he doesn't really know why he's barking.

WOW! I can't imagine having as many kids as you had this year! But, then if you are going to have enough milk to justify that commercial dairy equipment, you need lots of goats. Too bad you didn't have more little girls.

I was so sorry to read about your problems with your neighbors about your property line. It never ceases to amaze me when people think its okay to lie as drastically as your neighbors did. They must have sat up a'll night thinking up those utterly rediculous. While I wasn't aware you were asking for prayers, I didn't pray. However, I was so glad to see that your prayers were answered & the Judge ruled in your DH's favor. I have prayed & will continue to pray, that your lawyer will succeed to get your neighbor to pay all your legal fees. That only seems fair, considering they were the reason you had to hire the lawyer in the first place.

4:30

• finish stumps
• put sand in trench for gas line.
• run water line for hot water heater. **Moved to Tuesday
• Have sons move some sliding glass doors we have stored for a someday greenhouse
• everything else I forgot

Mowed the lawn
had my birthday/mother's day gift opening

@Devonviolet

Alondra is still here. She and Mia have made the peace for the most part and Mia has let Alondra be boss. For all the pain in the neck that Mia was as a puppy she has turned out to be a really good dog and if that includes taking a back seat to Alondra to keep the peace I am ok with that. Alondra is a good girl too and I am blessed that none of my dogs are barker and that they are all safe around baby goats, even at a young age. (Mia was by far the hardest...about 8 months).

babsbag said:

Alondra is still here. She and Mia have made the peace for the most part and Mia has let Alondra be boss.

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Oh I'm so glad you got to keep Alondra!!! Even though they stay outside, with the animals, they become members of our family!

Congratulations!!....on the combined Gift.
Sorry ya had to do a Day's work to get to it.

I am so glad that this weekend is over. That "everything else I forgot" was quite a bit longer than I had anticipated. I needed to move some dirt so the truck delivering the propane tank tomorrow can get it in place. We also had to move a trailer which meant unhook the trailer for hauling the stump grinder, move a stack of t-post, hook up trailer and move it, and then hook up the trailer for the stump grinder again and load the stump grinder for tomorrow's delivery. I did not get the drip tubing repaired simply because it got dark. Also add in a trip to the hardware store for plumbing supplies.

My kids gave me a book on "bee friendly plants", a gift card to Orchard Supply Hardware to buy some plants, and a lavender plant. Our property that the neighbor wants to claim will eventually be turned into bee habitat so I will be reading that book and finding some good bee plants that are drought tolerant too. It is a nice gift.

• finish stumps
• put sand in trench for gas line.
• run water line for hot water heater. **Moved to Tuesday ETA...or later
• Have sons move some sliding glass doors we have stored for a someday greenhouse
• everything else I forgot

If my list were that short, I'd probably think I had died.........

@greybeard, I didn't have time to die today

Moving the trailers probably took the most time. We have about zero level land and parking and jockeying trailers around is always a challenge as we have too many trailers and not enough room to maneuver. We will eventually move them to the new land we bought but not until we can feel fairly confidant in keeping them safe...so more fencing and locks on the hitches.

And of course there was the lawn to mow, the lawnmower that wouldn't start, the sprinkler to fix, the garden to water, the dishes and laundry to do, the animals to feed, the eggs to collect, the hummingbirds to feed, and everything else that goes with living on a farm. It took me a while to keep the dirt out of the gas line trench too, it seems it was two shovel fulls out and one shovel full back in. Our soil is very sandy and dry and I actually found myself wishing for clay. The trench isn't wide enough to stand in and it is too deep to reach easily with my trenching shovel so it makes it hard. The trencher did most of the work but I still had to clean out the dirt and rocks that slid back in. Just glad it is done.

I have a gas line installed Tonight I will start to cover it up and then clean out a trench I dug BEFORE the gas line and get busy on the next step of the water line. The trenches intersect so I had to do the gas before the water as I didn't want to complicate things for this install. One step closer.