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rachels.haven
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Shaun soaped. Good thing too. There's way too much mud. We're going to be out of what we have waaaay too soon at this rate.
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So pretty!
Mini Horses
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DD & I used to make & sell at bazaars, etc. Then mom came down with Big A & moved in. Ended that traveling. Haven't made in a while now but, using near last of supply. We'll make some this summer! Fun & really good soap
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I'm having to let older ewes go. I'm keeping ewe lambs and just can't keep them all. It is hard decisions, making a list of who goes and who stays.
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Someday I may sell soap. For now it gives Shaun or any of the boys really a creative outlet and an opportunity for them to make something they use.
@Baymule , I've been watching you do that. Is your goal a registered katadin flock then? It's been interesting watching your flock change.
@Baymule , I've been watching you do that. Is your goal a registered katadin flock then? It's been interesting watching your flock change.
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rachels.haven
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The doeling that broke both rear legs last year doing something stupid broke one of them again yesterday while we were at church. 
First time she jumped a metal panel. Second time she broke one slipping in and out of the bottom row of head holes in our round bale hay feeder so i blocked them off. On Saturday she discovered she was tall enough for the top row and on Sunday she re broke her leg. I can't block off the top row or they can't eat at all from it and its only her with the problem. I may have to change feeders and bale styles for this doe (because will there be another like her later?).
This is also the full sister to the frostbite doe. They mature nice, but everything stupid happens to them.
Last night dh and i were talking. One if our neighbors was drunk and is an angry drunk and he appeared to have been locked out of his parents house and the camper he and his wife and kids live in in their parent's backyard (this is also the neighbor that torments Doggo). Regardless of man child neighbor sobriety status i still have to milk and he began yelling nasty things at me from waaaaaaaay across the pasture and on the other side our creepy druggy neighbors were out parked on our shared driveway with friends being creepy so I wanted a friend while i milked and ignored everything. Other than informing me we live in the ghetto (oh really? I hadn't noticed...) there's a good chance this job wont last 5 years and we're lucky if it will last 3 the way things are going (after something teen years of working there), so i should try to keep my herd focused on what I really want and maybe let it get smaller and prepare for change. Again.
So i should probably go sell more goats over the next few weeks. This hobby farm depends on one income and over the past year it's become an unstable one. So i think I'm going to pick a handful of dwarves with the least problems for the kids and just keep my nice standards, mostly my lamanchas, as my main thing.
First time she jumped a metal panel. Second time she broke one slipping in and out of the bottom row of head holes in our round bale hay feeder so i blocked them off. On Saturday she discovered she was tall enough for the top row and on Sunday she re broke her leg. I can't block off the top row or they can't eat at all from it and its only her with the problem. I may have to change feeders and bale styles for this doe (because will there be another like her later?).This is also the full sister to the frostbite doe. They mature nice, but everything stupid happens to them.
Last night dh and i were talking. One if our neighbors was drunk and is an angry drunk and he appeared to have been locked out of his parents house and the camper he and his wife and kids live in in their parent's backyard (this is also the neighbor that torments Doggo). Regardless of man child neighbor sobriety status i still have to milk and he began yelling nasty things at me from waaaaaaaay across the pasture and on the other side our creepy druggy neighbors were out parked on our shared driveway with friends being creepy so I wanted a friend while i milked and ignored everything. Other than informing me we live in the ghetto (oh really? I hadn't noticed...) there's a good chance this job wont last 5 years and we're lucky if it will last 3 the way things are going (after something teen years of working there), so i should try to keep my herd focused on what I really want and maybe let it get smaller and prepare for change. Again.
So i should probably go sell more goats over the next few weeks. This hobby farm depends on one income and over the past year it's become an unstable one. So i think I'm going to pick a handful of dwarves with the least problems for the kids and just keep my nice standards, mostly my lamanchas, as my main thing.
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Sad situation but I agree... get rid of many of them, pare down, and maybe DH would consider finding a teaching job or something else???? Get moved out of there... while the getting is good... and the place is saleable...
Bad neighborhood for the boys to grow up in too....
And the problem "children", like breaking legs, need to go....
Bad neighborhood for the boys to grow up in too....
And the problem "children", like breaking legs, need to go....
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rachels.haven
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Yeah, the fact that the older adults are functional and all the adults our age are still living at home in their parent's house being varying degrees of dysfunctional while they have kids and shunt them off on their parents is very concerning from a son raising perspective. The scary adults are also why I've also not been encouraging my sons to run around and play with the neighbor kids. We just stay close knit and do things together and at the end of the day I do my chores and listen to a different neighbor's newborn scream while their adults get high in the backyard regardless of weather and I stay out of the way of the various alcoholics and creepy illegal camper slum neighbors as they gradually shoot all the pitbulls from their illegal pit bull kennel...this area has problems. I think it's dying. It used to be a dairy farm.
I kind don't want to think about missing living in a quieter neighborhood. It's one of the things that have been hard. This is all I've got right now. Idk if this place would be so difficult if it were just an adult couple but its a hard place to raise a family. It sounds like we'll have to be out of here in 3-5 years max.
The problem with teaching jobs is that they tend not to pay enough to buy a house and definitely not a farm and my kids are respectful but noisy hooligans and not apartment children.
I kind don't want to think about missing living in a quieter neighborhood. It's one of the things that have been hard. This is all I've got right now. Idk if this place would be so difficult if it were just an adult couple but its a hard place to raise a family. It sounds like we'll have to be out of here in 3-5 years max.
The problem with teaching jobs is that they tend not to pay enough to buy a house and definitely not a farm and my kids are respectful but noisy hooligans and not apartment children.
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Yes, I'm shooting for a registered flock. Breeding in some improvements with the white Dorpers for a meatier carcass. Letting go of old friends is hard.
Crappy neighbors you got there. yep, pare down the flock, keeping your best. I think I'd let the leg breaker find another home. Worst case scenario she will teach the others to do the stupid things she does and you don't want that. Plus as she gets older, she has weak legs now and they won't get any better. Arthritus will show up. Hard decision.
Teaching job, look at college professor jobs, even junior colleges. Probably easier to get a junior college job, look for the ones with no sports programs that suck money. The ones with no sports pay their professors better. Or even community college. Lots of options. He may have to take some courses in something related to his speciality to give him more options and or to get his teaching certificate, just explore the options. Do your research. Tennessee may be calling to you....
Some schools pay very well. You may find land with an older double wide on it like I did at a lower cost. Plus being an older doublewide, taxes are lower, they depreciate. Ag exemption for the farm lowers taxes too. You can do a lot on the INSIDE of a doublewide and nothing to not much on the outside to fix it up to suit you and keep the outside unattractive enough to keep the taxes low.
Just throwing it out there to give you things to consider.
