Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust

[Hillaire]

man, you guys are BUSY... I'm tired thinking about it lol... Moving pigs and piglets would be interesting to say the least... pig boards a must I would assume... crossing fingers for you guys to get the news you're looking for

 

[misfitmorgan]

man, you guys are BUSY... I'm tired thinking about it lol... Moving pigs and piglets would be interesting to say the least... pig boards a must I would assume... crossing fingers for you guys to get the news you're looking for

We do have downtime just not much of it lol. We do not own pig boards, we just tap their flanks to move them around. That being said....we are generally only moving them within the barn or pasture and their piglets follow along. I'm thinking we will have to haul one mom and one set of piglets at a time which means we will have to make 5-6 trips just for pigs.

 

[misfitmorgan]

@Bruce

We have a approx 130 day growing season with the first frost date this year is October 7th Which would give me roughly 75 days and means there are lots of varieties of tomatoes I could plant and still get fruit from. Even if the fruit was still green i can pick it and store them in the house and can them as they ripen, we have done that several times before. I certainly wont be able to plant any heirloom varieties but oh well.

DH mentioned trying low tunnels this yeah so we might do that.

 

[CntryBoy777]

There are always farmers mkts ya can get stuff from to can, without having to grow it yourself. Plus, some of your clientel for the shearing may be willing to pay ya in veggies and fruit....

 

[misfitmorgan]

By the time any veg and fruits are ready shearing will be done lol.

The farmers markets locally dont really have much to offer and what they do is pretty pricey like $7/lb tomatoes or $5/garlic head, etc. We were vendors at two local markets but there just isnt interest from the public so those who do go try to pay for their entire trip with 1-2 sales.

We may try going north to the farmers market in alpena and see how it looks there, way bigger city. I also havnt seen anyone selling pork there lol just beef and chicken.

 

[CntryBoy777]

There could be a "Market" to supply....

 

[misfitmorgan]

That is what we are gonna hope. We already have a restaurant waiting on our lamb supply and they might be interested in select pork as well.

 

[Mike CHS]

We have a long enough season but our biggest raised bed is going to be a cattle panel hoop house to extend our season some. We almost always have a frost around the middle of October but then warm weather after that for another month.

 

[Bruce]

If I plant the faster maturing cherry varieties at the beginning of June, we may get some ripe ones by the end of July. By the end of August they aren't ripening a whole lot so other than green tomatoes, there wouldn't be much sense in me planting them mid July.

 

[misfitmorgan]

I think your a bit colder then me @Bruce , I am between a zone 5b and 6a.

The loan officer got a hold of me today. The underwriter is saying i need to pay my lease off before closing or my debt-to-income ratio is to high for the conventional loan. If it was a normal loan and not a lease it would be fine apparently because I am almost done paying it.

So here is the problem. There is a balloon payment on the end of the lease of $1,664.80.
I currently owe $808 in normal payments on the lease which is approximately 2 months of payments.
So thats $2472.80 total
Plus the lease company is going to tack on $700 worth of early termination fees and and other BS.
So the total is going to be around $3,172.80

Down payment and closing costs on the loan are going to be $3,620

By the time closing comes I will only have approx $4,750

So we could quite realistically lose the house over 2 months of lease payments.

I have listed livestock for sale, extra vehicles, and sold one of our young breeders to be butchered. The young breeder is only adding approx $300 but better then nothing and brings the total i will have up to $5,050 of the $6,793 needed.

man we just can't catch a break this year.