Work doesn’t stop just because summer vacation is over – putting in some new water lines to hopefully simplify the process of getting water to cows and goats in the fields. I think secretly Farmer man just missed playing with the big machines and makes up reasons to rent them so he can play while the rest of us do the manual labor behind him!
The garden has finally started to spit out a few tomatoes here and there. If I’m really patient, I might get to can some tomatoes in a couple of weeks. I even saw a couple of surviving peppers! The corn is done, I’ll do it again I guess, but might plant a bit more. The beans might actually produce a little bit on their second wind. I really thought they were dead!
The ducks, which are the loudest occupiers of the farm, have increased their productivity and ensured that we won’t be returning them to the gifters! Duck eggs are pretty good, large enough to feed hungry workers, and so far have double yolks often.
It is friendly days at the farm again! So the limping goat, who I would like very much to NOT have babies this year, REALLY likes those boy goats and they REALLY like her! Hope that fence holds! The “chatter” at the barn is pretty much non-stop and is funny – as long as the fence holds!
Belle, who I’m pretty sure is carrying at least one kid, somehow, is still hanging out looking quite fat and a little pitiful. Don’t have one single idea when that happened! And don’t have a recent photo of her, sorry!
School has started and therefore the camp is divided again! High school, college, work, home, farm . . . We all go so many different directions, it is always nice when we can make a little time for important celebrations – like gotcha day – the celebration of the day the adoption was official and they were stuck with us!
6. The beautiful house is on the market. I still have mixed feelings about that. Trusting God to lead and praying for discernment. I wish He would let me read the map once in a while! Hahahahaha!
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