Jumping the Moon Dairy - the next chapter

[babsbag]

It is raining, raining, raining. We did not get the trailer water tight so it is still in my barn. I will try and get some siding on it this week. I decided I needed to test out how hard the concrete is at TSC a few days ago so have been not much help with a really messed up elbow, wrist, and shoulder. Very poor timing on my part. Oh, the concrete at TSC is VERY hard, no need for anyone else to try it out.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Oh man - that stinks! Hope you feel better soon!

 

[Hens and Roos]

Ouch!

 

[Latestarter]

Silly girl...concrete IS hard... I would think at your age you'd think better of testing it Sorry you had to test it to verify it. Hope no permanent damage to joints etc. Bumps and bruises (or cuts) don't heal as fast as they used to either

I know you folks out on the wrong coast really need the rain, but I hope it will give you a couple weeks break so you can get some of this pending stuff finished up and moved. Really sucks; unexpected hold-ups that we have no control over and set us back by seems like ages. You know we're all rooting for you on this! Can't wait to hear of the success you'll surely achieve.

 

[babsbag]

Wrong Coast !!! When did I move East?

Thanks for the encouragement, some days I need it more than others. I am healing slowly but everyday a little better so that is good.

 

[Mini Horses]

That's why I stopped horseback riding -- fell from a fence and discovered how hard the ground had become! Too many people & animals depended on me, so rarely ride now. No full size horses for long time. Not afraid to ride, do that on some friends horses now & then, just not an everyday thing now. Sadly.

It wasn't that I didn't ride well, or feel. But, didn't want to take the chance so didn't buy another riding horse after years of not having my own. Besides, little time for it now.

 

[Ferguson K]

Mini, I'm right there with you. Did endurance most of my life. Two times a broken back make me cautious of who I ride. I have my main riding horse, but she's batty. Fractured my sacrum in April over a plastic bag. I usually ride my "retired" horse Maya now. Haven't ridden in months, we've been busy.

Babs, I can't tell you enough times how hard that TSC pavement is. I walk on it alllllll day long. It's also unforgiving in the battlefield. Hope your battle wounds heal quickly, I love the progress updates!

 

[Baymule]

I have been blessed

The milking setup I was going to use is less than ideal as my back complains about lifting cans of milk and leaning over sink washing buckets, but it is what it is....until a few weeks ago.

I was perusing a website I visit often getting ready to buy the milk bulk tank when I see a consignment section and low and behold there is a small goat pipeline system for sale for the same price as what all the buckets were going to cost. Now granted it is in NC and I am in CA but I have this friend in NC that lives 1.5 hours or so from this dairy and she went to visit it. Thanks @Southern by choice. She and her family took pictures and checked it all out and I am going to buy it. DH will fly to NC, document, train, dismantle, rent a truck and drive back home. He thrives on this kind of thing. I may or may not go with him for a few days, verdict is out on that one. I feel like I need to, but with dogs that need to be boarded and goats that are close to kidding, and the airport being 2 hours away, it makes it all a little challenging.

Aren't BYH friends the absolute BEST???

 

[babsbag]

They are the best and the best best part is that I get to go to NC and visit with Southern and her family again. I have to go and see the equipment and get some education on how to use it and takes lots of pictures and videos, and visit my friend. It is the best deal ever. DH will go back in Feb and dismantle it all and bring it home. I know that this is the right choice but it does mean that I won't be milking for a while yet. I was going to pull kids and milk but now I may dam raise again. I can't face milking 25 goats one or two at a time...that's what (goat) kids are for right?

 

[babsbag]

Make that 30 goats...I just counted. The first 8 are due the first week of Feb. Most are due in March with a few in April and a few in May.