tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42952854913789911262024-03-19T04:53:15.914-07:00Utterly Blessed Farm BlogA few morsels from our life on the farm.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304862788138597824noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295285491378991126.post-39389409365827804012014-09-22T07:14:00.000-07:002017-12-11T21:18:42.059-08:00Kyrstyn and KC bring home top honors from the Boonville Fair<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Congratulations to Kyrstyn and KC for their recent wins in both Obedience and Showmanship at the 2014 Mednocino County Fair and Apple Show in Boonville, California. Kyrstyn says all the credit goes to God and KC and she was just along for the ride but what she isn't saying is that for the past 5 years she has been the sole trainer of KC and their win is due to the incredible bond the two of them have. Well that, and many hours of work.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Thank you to the amazing sponsors at the Mendocino County Fair and Apple Show too. Kyrstyn and KC came home with a beautiful bag sponsored by Yokayo Veterinary Center and it was full of toys, and grooming supplies and the neatest cloth travel dishes. Thank you to BR Pets, It's a Pet Thing, and Mendocino County Farm Supply for filling this beautiful bag with so many toys and treats; it was like Christmas in September!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Kyrstyn went on to compete in Small Animal Round Robin where she placed second. Nice job for her first time ever being in Round Robin! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Congratulations to all the 4H and FFA memebers who completed at the Mendocino County Fair whether they went on to Round Robin or not they are all amazing people and it shows in all they do with their fellow competitors and their animals.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Now if only I could remember to bring a good camera and not try to take photos with my phone.</span></td></tr>
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304862788138597824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295285491378991126.post-42019062746875486432014-08-11T22:30:00.000-07:002017-12-11T21:18:42.082-08:00Congratulations to Aubergine!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Utterly Blessed Aubergine won Senior Grand Champion then Best of Show at the Nevada County Fair, in the youth show, this past weekend. Then she went on to win Senior Grand Champion in the open show.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Congratulations to Liz Smith of Mini-Ridge-Top Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goats of Nevada City, owner of Aubergine.</span><br />
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304862788138597824noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295285491378991126.post-87823501626118270362014-06-04T07:31:00.003-07:002017-12-11T21:18:42.700-08:00Need I say more ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304862788138597824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295285491378991126.post-16199157793477348652014-05-26T14:07:00.000-07:002017-12-11T21:18:41.699-08:00Kynnedy's Mug<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Last year we were fortunate enough to have two junior does win Grand Champion at the Redwood Empire Dairy Goat Association, goat show.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">This year as we were preparing to show Kynnedy was looking at the coffee mugs and she said, "I will only be happy if I win a coffee mug." As I surveyed our competition I said, "Hmm ... well you'd better tell that to the goats ... on second thought you'd better bring that up with God, because I think he is the only one who is going to be able to help you with that request."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Well, as it turns out it must have been God's will too, because not only did Kynnedy get one coffee mug but she got a second one to match. I guess we can both drink our coffee in style now.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Now Kynnedy has decided that getting a new coffee mug each year at REDGA would be a good goal. So, here's to a new mug next year ... maybe even two!</span> </div>
<br />Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304862788138597824noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295285491378991126.post-22038194558876735502014-04-02T22:40:00.000-07:002017-12-11T21:18:41.773-08:00Oh to be a cat ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304862788138597824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295285491378991126.post-78130910901209407852014-02-26T00:46:00.000-08:002017-12-11T21:18:42.604-08:00A Doe Year?<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Nutmeg and Flip Flop both had their babies last night. Flip Flop had triplets, 2 does and 1 buck and I was thinking how wonderful that was because Liberty also had 2 does and 1 buck. So when Nutmeg went into labor and had two does I was in the mind set, as she had a third baby, that it would be a buck, but it was a doe! Wow, maybe it is going to be a doe year. I wonder, has there ever been a doe year? (Meaning more doe births than bucks). Hmmm, I'm probably getting ahead of myself here as we still have seven more does to freshen this spring and then two in the summer. Oh well, it is all good when the babies and their dams are healthy, but just because it is fun to speculate on a doe year I will tally the current baby count at our farm for 2014. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Update 5/4/14 ~ The spring part of our kidding season is over now. No other does are due until late July. The current counts are tied ~ 15 bucks and 15 does! Wow ... crazy how our opening season numbers have changed. But, we can't complain at all. We have 30 beautiful babies that are all healthy and that is what is most important. Thank you Lord for being with us throughout this spring's kidding season and helping each birth to be a success.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Miss Liberty had three beautiful babies last night. I think they are the most beautiful babies that have ever been born at our farm but I'm partial to loud colors and chamoise with random white coloring and dark buckskin with random white. Liberty gave us a little of both. OK, really it was God who designed them and Liberty just took very good care of them for the past 149 days. Thank you Lord and Libby.</span></div>
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304862788138597824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295285491378991126.post-47290790429944291352014-02-13T14:59:00.002-08:002017-12-11T21:18:42.129-08:00My Administrative Assistant<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304862788138597824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295285491378991126.post-87351317914346801332014-01-11T21:39:00.000-08:002017-12-11T21:18:42.677-08:00Slipping Through the Cracks<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Bear with me, this is one of those 'trains of thought' that takes a few twists and turns but it does arrive at a point.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Those of you who read this blog know that I have a favorite blog. It is written by Baby Belle of Herron Hill Dairy and it is called "This Goat's Life", (<span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><a href="http://goatcentral.blogspot.com/">http://goatcentral.blogspot.com/</a></span>). This past Tuesday, Baby Belle wrote about "Blue Monday." Apparently, Blue Monday is the saddest day of the year. The term Blue Monday, was coined as being "the date calculated by using many factors, including: weather conditions, debt level (the difference between debt accumulated and our ability to pay), time since Christmas, time since failing our new year’s resolutions, low motivational levels and feeling of a need to take action." Someone decided all of these factors make up a specific formula that can pin point the saddest day of the year. Typically Blue Monday occurs in mid to late January. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">OK ~ really ... Someone decided there was a mathematical formula for this? I'm just not even going to go down that path. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> This year the formula determined that Blue Monday fell on January 6th. That alone is extremely sad as it fell on the same day as the Epiphany this year. The Epiphany is</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">a celebration </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">held on January 6 in honor of the coming of the three kings to the infant Jesus Christ. Obviously, for those of us who love the Lord, this is the last day in which we would ever consider to be Blue Monday. The word Epiphany is also defined as a moment in which you suddenly see or understand something in a new or very clear way.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> A light bulb moment. There is a lot of irony swirling around this whole incident. Keep reading.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"> Blue Monday was in fact a day of true sorrow at Herron Hill Farm and no one was probably thinking of the three kings or even the baby Jesus because as Baby Belle told us all, it was the day that, ironically, Monday, the yearling doe, delivered her baby way too early. Too early to have finished developing inside the womb. It was heart breaking to read and I wept and I wanted to drive right up to Washington and hold her and feed her lots of goat cookies and just be with her. She has a wonderful farmer of her own, she doesn't need me at all but still this is what I was feeling and I carried this around in my heart for days. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"> On Thursday night, Star, one of our first goats, starting talking. She is not much of a talker, except at kidding time, now that she has learned not to scream for grain at the top of her lungs. In fact she is down right quiet most of the time. So when she started talking and talking I took notice. I had estimated that Star was due to have her babies on February 21st or so. Instantly I thought of Monday. I'm a very positive person by nature but a true hypochondriac when it comes to our animals. Other than her talking, nothing seemed amiss. I told myself I was just over reacting and I tucked all the goats into the barn for the night. The next morning, Star was arching her tail, a sign of pain in most cases when it comes to goats, and she kept stretching. She didn't want to eat. She walked outside with the other does but then came right back into the barn and made a little goat nest and lay down. Oh no, was all I could think and I didn't know what else to do. I moved Star to one of the kidding stalls and waited. I wept. I told Star how very sorry I was and that I would be there for her. I kept thinking maybe she is just tired and she is trying to get the babies into a different position. Maybe she was fine and that I was just being an idiot. I could feel a baby moving but I knew that it would not survive being born five weeks early and if Star were to go into labor then it would not survive. My brain was searching for some other possibility. Perhaps one of the bucks was able to breed Star through the fence. I write every breeding down. I searched and searched through my calendar and my goat notebook. Nothing other than Star being in with a buck on September 20th. The babies must be coming five weeks early. I gathered the birthing kit and several clean towels and waited. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"> Well ... Star delivered two beautiful doelings, both are healthy and to term. I can't remember her being bred in late August, even though I looked through many emails that I had exchanged with a wonderful person who had planned on buying Star. I had mentioned in one that I was planning on breeding her "any day", that was in early August. Obviously I went through with that plan but writing it down on the calendar must have slipped through the cracks of life. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"> I wish I could share one of these little babies with Monday so she could have a little baby to love but then again I guess that is just a crazy human way of thinking. Well, this crazy human's way of thinking anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"></span><br />Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304862788138597824noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295285491378991126.post-17737484279204232112013-12-27T22:42:00.001-08:002017-12-11T21:18:41.724-08:00Winter Skies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304862788138597824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295285491378991126.post-72318826154397343382013-12-25T11:41:00.001-08:002017-12-11T21:18:42.439-08:00Merry Christmas<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">From all of us ~ to all of you ... we hope your holiday is filled with the blessings of Jesus' birth.</span></div>
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304862788138597824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295285491378991126.post-73896469110446375552013-12-06T16:44:00.000-08:002017-12-11T21:18:42.486-08:00The California Misconception<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Several years ago I went to North Carolina. While I was there I met several people who were just in awe of the fact that I was from California. Time and time again I was asked if I went to the beach every day and if I saw movie stars all the time? After I explained that I lived nearly three hours from the beach and ten from Hollywood a visible change took place and you could see the disbelief on the faces of the natives. The wheels of thought actually shuddering. Then they would ask if it was sunny year round where I lived and if it was like being at the beach? Again I dispelled the California misconception. I was thinking about this today when I woke for the second day in a row to 12 degree weather but considering it was minus 5 degrees in Missoula, Montana, (where most of my family lives) I guess you could say it was balmy here ... OK not really, but how can you complain about 12 degrees when you realize it is all relative. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">You can make your own pita chips fairly easily. Not only are they delicious but they take very little time and the variations are nearly limitless<span style="color: red;">*</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">*<span style="color: black;"> You can use any type of oil or none at all. Sunflower oil adds a wonderful nutty flavor. My personal favorites are basil infused olive oil and the oil that sun dried tomatoes are packed in. The possibilities are endless. You can also use a milder oil, like canola and then instead of sprinkling with salt you can sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. It probably goes without saying but if you make your own pita bread these would even be more delicious! </span></span>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304862788138597824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295285491378991126.post-76541378165407981912013-11-28T07:30:00.001-08:002017-12-11T21:18:42.532-08:00~ Happy Thanksgiving ~<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Thank you Lord for all you provide for us. We are truly blessed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Oh my gosh, look at me! I am beyond handsome now! Some of you might not know this, but I won the T-Shirt that Crumpet and the Goat Farmer, of Herron Hill Dairy, were giving away. Thank you Goat Farmer and Crumpet for my new duds!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Courier New; font-size: large;">The T-shirt is the same color as I am so that makes it a wonderful color. Thank you Goat Farmer. I know you were worried about the color but, as it turns out, it is the the perfect color for me and my shepherdess is quite partial to brown, even the drabbest of varieties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Moldy's magic of whispering to the wind has not helped here, in California, and the rains have been absent much longer than normal. Perhaps we should have invited Moldy to come visit us for a while. Instead we whined about droughts and La Ninas. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So when the rain finally came, earlier this week, the new babies were quite perplexed and didn't understand why water was falling from the sky, but they suffered through wearing coats and made up clever ways to pass the time indoors. Perhaps Moldy can come hang out with them sometime in the future and maybe Crumpet can tag along to visit PG.</span> </span></span></div>
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<br />Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304862788138597824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295285491378991126.post-59342115918971006582013-11-11T09:51:00.000-08:002017-12-11T21:18:42.251-08:002013 Show Season<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Our 2013 show season has officially come to a conclusion. It was a great year for our junior does. We are a fairly new herd so we did not have any senior does with our herd name, except Aubergine. Aubergine has moved to Mini-Ridge Top </span><a href="http://www.miniridgetop.com/index.html"><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.miniridgetop.com/index.html</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;">along with her dam, Penstemon. She will most likely be</span> in the show ring in 2014. She is stunning.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> All in all our juniors brought home ~ 15 First place wins, 7 Reserve Grand Champion wins, and 6 Grand Champion wins and that was with only 9 doelings. Yeah! Of course as all goat enthusiasts know the true test will come when these doelings freshen. I hope they will do as well, then.</span>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304862788138597824noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295285491378991126.post-38575470898784554532013-10-28T16:31:00.000-07:002017-12-11T21:18:42.033-08:00"Crumpet, the most famous goat in the world"<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> It goes without saying that Crumpet <strong>IS</strong> the most famous goat in the world. I'd give my left ... wait a minute I guess that won't work I'm a wether. OK I'd give Cyclone's left ... wait a minute that won't work either because he'd probably kill me before I was able to get close enough and the shepherdess loves all the bucks so much that she will never even consider for a moment removing any parts from any of them. OK I got it, I would crawl a mile on broken glass just to lick the exhaust pipe of the truck that delivers her hay to Herron Hill Dairy.</span> <a href="http://www.herronhilldairy.com/goats/the-crumpet-project">http://www.herronhilldairy.com/goats/the-crumpet-project</a> </div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> They winterise all the pipes with delicious foam treats for us, except this year they built a big house that covers up the delicious foam treats. I don't know what they were thinking. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Between the sale of several does and other does not being bred, our 2013 Fall Kidding Schedule ended up with only one doe due to freshen, Serengeti. She had two beautiful babies on October 2nd. She was bred to DesertNanny BR Storm Warning. Storm has moved to Washington and is now owned by Minter Bay Dairy Goats and Herron Hill Dairy.</span> </div>
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<br />Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304862788138597824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295285491378991126.post-7913565373131259312013-09-24T08:38:00.003-07:002017-12-11T21:18:42.628-08:00Congratulations to Red Rupee!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Utterly Blessed Red Rupee won Reserve Grand Champion at the Washington State Fair this past weekend. There were 43 juniors entered and the judge was Ed Cavanaugh. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Congratulations to Wendy of Minter Bay Dairy Goats and Mary of Herron Hill Dairy</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">To hear about The Rupester (aka Roopster) please see the wondeful Blogs of Minter Bay Dairy ~ "Beyond the Sidewalks:</span> </span><a href="http://lifebeyondthesidewalks.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">http://lifebeyondthesidewalks.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">and the Blog of Herron Hill Dairy ~ "This Goat's Life by Baby Belle" </span><a href="http://lifebeyondthesidewalks.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">http://lifebeyondthesidewalks.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">.</span></td></tr>
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304862788138597824noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295285491378991126.post-9107727684398367552013-09-22T16:40:00.001-07:002017-12-11T21:18:42.794-08:00Healing, learning, and kittens. What could be better?<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> It has been months since I updated our blog. For those of you who are nearer to our family, you know that our world cracked and we stepped back from life and have been picking up the pieces. So far so good. Marriage is hard even in the absolutely best of times and circumstances but when those circumstances are not perfect it is much more difficult. But, fixing the crack and working through all the hard parts are worth it. So we move forward, learning how to talk, how not to hurt each other, and most importantly how to put each other first. It is not easy and we can only move one day at a time, tearing down walls and building memories. But, we have come farther in one month than we have in sixteen years. Hopefully the days will become weeks and then months and years and we will still keep moving forward as a whole family. It takes work and patience and then even more patience. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> We appreciate all of your prayers and your kind words. We know you are there for us, if ever we need you, even if it is only just knowing you are there. We appreciate the time and help you have given so we can spend time together, away from the farm. Don't get me wrong, we love it here but it isn't healthy for the farm to be our whole life without some time to just be with each other. So we, well more so <em>ME</em>, will learn how to leave the farm and put love and marriage first. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Where do the kittens come into all of this? Well, although they were supposed to be the mouse management team in the barn they haven't made it out there yet. They are currently helping with laughter management and pure happiness at heart and ransacking the house every moment they are awake. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"></span><br />Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304862788138597824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295285491378991126.post-33015696740386523452013-07-06T10:40:00.000-07:002017-12-11T21:18:41.939-08:00Snake Charmer<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">On a recent visit to the creek we found this beautiful Gopher Snake.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> <span style="color: black;">A couple weeks ago, when the temperature in our little town reached 114, we had no water. There is nothing like living in triple digits with an abundance of livestock and no water for three days to help you learn not to take your water supply for granted. We are blessed to live in this country and have plumbing. I'm sure we will take it for granted again but for now we are very aware of how fortunate we are.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> We soon discovered that the problem was due to some type of wiring failure. This was good news as it meant that we did not have to replace our well pump or dig a <span style="color: black;">new well.</span> However, it also meant that we needed to replace the wiring as locating the actual failed wire was going to be nearly impossible. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Originally we had decided to hire a professional to dig the trench from our well to the electrical box in the garage. But, they must have been overwhelmed with other projects because they never showed up on the appointed day and never returned our calls. I will say the company we were waiting on came highly recommended so perhaps there was some type of communication breakdown there. We set out to fix the problem by ourselves. Well, really John did all the work and had all the know how. I just kind of fetched things like Gatorade and shovels.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">Measure twice and cut once. Well, we measured and measured and measured and still had way more wire than needed but we wanted to make sure not to short ourselves. The prospect of pulling the wire through the conduit a third time was enough to cause us to be overly cautious.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The section from the pasture fence across the drive was was easier and much shorter so the "fish tape" worked without any problems</span>.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">John was very clever at making the big curve we needed around the side of the garage to get to the electrical box.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Once the trench was complete under the fencing; the conduit came in from both sides. One pipe across the pasture and one across the driveway. By separating the pipe at this point and placing a Christy box around the conduit and wires you create an access point for future problems and hopefully future fixes.</span> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">A closer look at the individual conduit pipes coming into the future Christy box site.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">The far end of the trench, way out by the well pump, with a support 2 x 4. Although it looks a bit like a grave marker, the 2 x 4 is just protecting the conduit until the future well house is built.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">Soon we will build a well house that will protect the electrical supply for the well and keep the goats safe too. At the moment the fencing you see in the background has been secured around the whole site.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">Although it looks a bit like a disaster in this photo the wires have been cut to the right length and the conduit is now buried. Soon we will build a house around this area too.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">I neglected to take a photo of the area before the Christy box was put into place and the trench closed back in but this gives you an idea at what it looks like now. Notice the full bucket of water! Oh it is so nice to be able to give the animals fresh water.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">The trench is all filled in but still visible. I will place some large boulders along the trenched area to mark it for future access or avoidance. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">The trenched area across the driveway is barely visible now, gravel does wonders at hiding holes. This area is a very straight shot from the corner of the garage to the Christy box so it will not need any markers for future access.</span></td></tr>
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