I'm so excited, the county extension agent wrote me back and is coming out here on Tuesday to answer all of my questions! That will be fun.
All the animals are doing good. I just love walking out in the morning and opening all the chicken doors, etc. and letting everybody out...FREE!!!!!. Even the Unihorn, Genius, is really growing on me. He greets me every morning looking for food. He is looking so much better than when we got him. The turkeys are getting sooo big, and I think they are safely past the point of dyeing from that blackhead disease. I'm glad it turned out that we have one male and one female. The white turkey was strutting his stuff yesterday and fluffing up. Yesterday Tim discovered a big fat rat that was dead on the electric wire surrounding the pheasant run. Well that confirms my suspicions that it was rats getting them. They are still all accounted for.
Last evening I went down to the creek to feed the sheep and Koala was missing. Koala is the 6 month old Harlequin ewe lamb. She's a little chunkster. I called for her and heard her baaing from far off. I went down closer to the creek to see where she was. She was on the other side of the creek! D'oh! She was in the paddock with the two horses down there. I tried to coax her back under the fence, but she was a bit panicked and wasn't sure how to get back. All the other sheep were on the other side of the creek baaing for her, but she wouldn't go. So I went back up to the house and got Tim. We walked back down there and he had his lasso. She took one look at him with that rope and went right under the fence and ran back across the creek! whew.
This morning we finally trapped the little devil sheep, the roaming shetlands, in the pond area. Now we've got them! ha! They have been wandering around and off the farm for weeks. But now we finally have them trapped and we can move them over to be with the little flock of Jacobs.
On the liver biopsy front, apparently I got the right liver
and it's at the lab and we will have test results in about 10 days. It will be very interesting to see what the results are.
I finished painting my buggy, and today I'll put the hardware back on and roll it on out to the road. I've got some pretty nice flowers going right now, so I'll be sure to make a showy presentation on the cart when I put it back out front. I need to figure out some kind of signage. On my old cart, I used to staple price lists and signs all over it. But I don't want to put staples onto the buggy. All of this roadside farm cart requires lots of planning and ingenuity. Everything has to be clearly marked. People are stupid, for the most part, and if it isn't clearly marked they don't have a clue what to do. I'll be sure to post pictures when I get it all set up. I'm still sad about my old cart being destroyed by a car, but am looking forward to building up my new one.
It was dark when I got up this morning, and a bit chilly. I actually am looking forward to fall, and I feel a creative inspiration coming on. Last year I painted a bunch of pumpkins, they were beautiful. I want to do it again this year.
Here are a couple I did from last year.
