... I will list what I have in mind in a bit but first, I am disabled. I fell from a scaffold 6 years ago the 5th of this month, and while I am getting better, inch by slow inch, I finally give up on finding a job working for someone else. I can work, but at my own pace. Nothing like I was before.
... Therefore, I don't have a choice but to build my own job because I am not going to set around here drawing the P*** pour check they give me after all I paid in over the years.
... Even if they gave me a check I feel that I should get, all that would do is help me turn this land into a farm again a lot faster, because I am not setting down the rest of my life anyway.
... I bought it to make a farm from again. It just got put on the back burner for a few more years than I had hoped for, and I thank the good Lord we even still live here. And there isd still a chance, ever so small now, but none the less, a chance we could still loose it.
... When we got this place, 3.8 acres the house is own, a 20 +/- acre field that hasn't been planted for 15 years, and 38 +/- acres of woods, with the +/- meaning it is 58 acres total, is not counting the lot the house is own, and by my measurements when we got it, it measured out to be about 20 acres of field, give or take an acre or two.
... So that's where the 38 and 20 comes from but I know it's 58 acres all together not counting the land the house is on.
... The field has been bush hogged each year so a good tractor which I hope to get here shortly, with a bottom plow, disc, and jitter bugs, should make it easy enough for me to plant the whole field.
... That leaves me with the 38 acres for the pigs.
.... Now this is what I plan as of right now to do, if we can scrape the nickles and dimes together this year. I want all of you to be truthful with me, and anything I say that doesn't seem like a good idea, please tell me. I am almost going into this blind as as they say, this time I will be betting the farm on it.
... As far as labor goes, I have a 19 year old daughter, Stacey, that helps me do whatever I need help doing and I mean she does it all. Helps me cut and haul fire wood, tended the chickens and loved it, helps me 'Can" what we get from the garden, and yet she still looks like a petete young lady, which she is. And a cook. She learned everything I showed her and some tricks of her own.
She got behind one grade but will finish high school this spring and
Thank God, she wants to stay here and help he daddy make the farm become a farm again.
... Her boyfriend, Mike, he comes over during the day when Stacey isn't even here just to help me with whatever I am doing. I am teaching him how to weld and he's getting pretty good too. He's a 20 year young buck trying to make a name for himself as a stand up, clean cut hard working guy, but there aren't any jobs around here.
... He has three brothers from 17 to 24 that is just like him. And a sister that is, well, she's a good cook. She wants to help can.
Look, my computer is trying to download an update and it is going to restart when it does so if I don't post this I will loose it. I am going to post what I have so far and start again as soon as it finishes whatever it needs to do.
Dennis
... Therefore, I don't have a choice but to build my own job because I am not going to set around here drawing the P*** pour check they give me after all I paid in over the years.
... Even if they gave me a check I feel that I should get, all that would do is help me turn this land into a farm again a lot faster, because I am not setting down the rest of my life anyway.
... I bought it to make a farm from again. It just got put on the back burner for a few more years than I had hoped for, and I thank the good Lord we even still live here. And there isd still a chance, ever so small now, but none the less, a chance we could still loose it.
... When we got this place, 3.8 acres the house is own, a 20 +/- acre field that hasn't been planted for 15 years, and 38 +/- acres of woods, with the +/- meaning it is 58 acres total, is not counting the lot the house is own, and by my measurements when we got it, it measured out to be about 20 acres of field, give or take an acre or two.
... So that's where the 38 and 20 comes from but I know it's 58 acres all together not counting the land the house is on.
... The field has been bush hogged each year so a good tractor which I hope to get here shortly, with a bottom plow, disc, and jitter bugs, should make it easy enough for me to plant the whole field.
... That leaves me with the 38 acres for the pigs.
.... Now this is what I plan as of right now to do, if we can scrape the nickles and dimes together this year. I want all of you to be truthful with me, and anything I say that doesn't seem like a good idea, please tell me. I am almost going into this blind as as they say, this time I will be betting the farm on it.
... As far as labor goes, I have a 19 year old daughter, Stacey, that helps me do whatever I need help doing and I mean she does it all. Helps me cut and haul fire wood, tended the chickens and loved it, helps me 'Can" what we get from the garden, and yet she still looks like a petete young lady, which she is. And a cook. She learned everything I showed her and some tricks of her own.
She got behind one grade but will finish high school this spring and
Thank God, she wants to stay here and help he daddy make the farm become a farm again.
... Her boyfriend, Mike, he comes over during the day when Stacey isn't even here just to help me with whatever I am doing. I am teaching him how to weld and he's getting pretty good too. He's a 20 year young buck trying to make a name for himself as a stand up, clean cut hard working guy, but there aren't any jobs around here.
... He has three brothers from 17 to 24 that is just like him. And a sister that is, well, she's a good cook. She wants to help can.
Look, my computer is trying to download an update and it is going to restart when it does so if I don't post this I will loose it. I am going to post what I have so far and start again as soon as it finishes whatever it needs to do.
Dennis
