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mygoldendoe
Loving the herd life
Thank you for that, i hope we get to move there soon also. But we found out the neighbor cut our access to the shared well btwn us 3 neighbors and with the county not running lines anytime soon i dunno how long itll take.
We had to put our homestead on hold for awhile unexpectedly (reason of absence). A close elderly family member of ours with Alzheimer's needed 8-10hr care daily while her family worked, and since she was wheelchair then bed bound, it didnt leave much for moving forward with our own lives. I got into a good routine, several months pass, loving my time with her when she passed two days after our very close elderly neighbor passed, and two of our grandfather on both ine and husbands side are waining fro this disease. Needless ti say its been really emotional leading up to the holidays. Between then i started watching my twin sisters son. Taking him with me there, now here, Iv finally goten used to my new daily routine. But i shouldnt get used to it bc my sisters daughter will be here within two weeks, if she does in one week she'll be here before her brothers 1yr birthday. Ill be keeping her too when shes a month old.
Man my WHOOOLE post got deleted...atleast it saved that much..ugh. well ill highlight. We got a dog in june at 7weeks old so hes 6months right now. His name is Bon. Went from fluff ball to sharp muscular doggy. Hes SUPER fast thanks to his long legs and wide feet. When he was growing into them he looked a bit scooby doo-ish.. he looks to be something like a Belgian malinois tho his mother is a lab and dads a stray (same as ace but atleast with ace we know his dad was a st benard bc he lived at the house up the street and visited daily lol) bon really perked ace up. But last month and hlf his arthritis has been affecting him shaky steeps and hobbles during early mornings, sleeps way more than he should, and is verbally cranky with bon now..im worried for him. He has a date with his first ever groomer Thursday. Gonna use that deshedding servce, teeth, makes him feel better. I do his nails and wash him but i hurt my back bad when i washed him last. (In aug he had gotten sprayed by skunk, i gave him his 4th bath that day before it was gone. Then 2-3weeks go by and he decides to run off and eat soemthing dead and roll around in it. I washed him and normally he gets in tub by himself but its high walled and his arthritis didnt want him in, it hurt me when i put his 102lb self in the bathtub so let someone else do it this time) gonna see if the pampering helps him, i nnow him bejng clean ill be able to waller on him like we used too so that may help too.
A stray came up and killed two rabbits from our gazebo, didnt even eat them, just went i to drag another cage off its stand across the yard then knock two more cages off their stand. The rabbits screaming is what woke me not the cages being ripped down. Husband was still sound asleep..dog was shot and it ran away while he got everything cleaned up. Husband doesnt trust us out there with crazy dogs poor man did it all himself. I kinda felt bad bc we had been putting off harvesting all those growouts since our weekends were getting schedualed for us by family needing help moving but at same time i feel like if we had then we woulda lost our breeders..all well. We did manage to sell 4 growouts tho. Now we just gotta harvest 11. I think we'll take a break from our frequent breeding (we did 6 all in pairs of twos so that there was always babies, but i think we are just gonna do 4 in pairs with even more time btwn rotations.) If so we'll need to harvest more than 11...maybe when im not looki g after so many kids with frequent feedings itll be better to get big again..but since its been 9months of us trying for our own 3rd final child itll be some time. Who knows we may not get too..took over year for our second and with my thyroid still messed up it could take longer still..who knows..
My oven is still weird working sometimes and not others, motherboards half melted.. i tried selljng my clarinet (wooden yamaha advantage ycl400) but this small town means only band kids are interested and no one has lowest asking price of 400$. The thing is over 1000$ im giving more than a major discount. I just wanna earn somthing to help my husband get a new stove.
If you have tips on selling anything or earning money, let me know. I tried selling knitted and crocheted hats and toddler clothes but im not fast since i have so many lil kids to care for whose at ages of frequent feedings. Plus it doesnt help tthat here everyone and their mother does some form of craftig so it doesnt really sell unless its absurdly dirt cheap. Making all that time i snached here and there pointless.
We had to put our homestead on hold for awhile unexpectedly (reason of absence). A close elderly family member of ours with Alzheimer's needed 8-10hr care daily while her family worked, and since she was wheelchair then bed bound, it didnt leave much for moving forward with our own lives. I got into a good routine, several months pass, loving my time with her when she passed two days after our very close elderly neighbor passed, and two of our grandfather on both ine and husbands side are waining fro this disease. Needless ti say its been really emotional leading up to the holidays. Between then i started watching my twin sisters son. Taking him with me there, now here, Iv finally goten used to my new daily routine. But i shouldnt get used to it bc my sisters daughter will be here within two weeks, if she does in one week she'll be here before her brothers 1yr birthday. Ill be keeping her too when shes a month old.
Man my WHOOOLE post got deleted...atleast it saved that much..ugh. well ill highlight. We got a dog in june at 7weeks old so hes 6months right now. His name is Bon. Went from fluff ball to sharp muscular doggy. Hes SUPER fast thanks to his long legs and wide feet. When he was growing into them he looked a bit scooby doo-ish.. he looks to be something like a Belgian malinois tho his mother is a lab and dads a stray (same as ace but atleast with ace we know his dad was a st benard bc he lived at the house up the street and visited daily lol) bon really perked ace up. But last month and hlf his arthritis has been affecting him shaky steeps and hobbles during early mornings, sleeps way more than he should, and is verbally cranky with bon now..im worried for him. He has a date with his first ever groomer Thursday. Gonna use that deshedding servce, teeth, makes him feel better. I do his nails and wash him but i hurt my back bad when i washed him last. (In aug he had gotten sprayed by skunk, i gave him his 4th bath that day before it was gone. Then 2-3weeks go by and he decides to run off and eat soemthing dead and roll around in it. I washed him and normally he gets in tub by himself but its high walled and his arthritis didnt want him in, it hurt me when i put his 102lb self in the bathtub so let someone else do it this time) gonna see if the pampering helps him, i nnow him bejng clean ill be able to waller on him like we used too so that may help too.
A stray came up and killed two rabbits from our gazebo, didnt even eat them, just went i to drag another cage off its stand across the yard then knock two more cages off their stand. The rabbits screaming is what woke me not the cages being ripped down. Husband was still sound asleep..dog was shot and it ran away while he got everything cleaned up. Husband doesnt trust us out there with crazy dogs poor man did it all himself. I kinda felt bad bc we had been putting off harvesting all those growouts since our weekends were getting schedualed for us by family needing help moving but at same time i feel like if we had then we woulda lost our breeders..all well. We did manage to sell 4 growouts tho. Now we just gotta harvest 11. I think we'll take a break from our frequent breeding (we did 6 all in pairs of twos so that there was always babies, but i think we are just gonna do 4 in pairs with even more time btwn rotations.) If so we'll need to harvest more than 11...maybe when im not looki g after so many kids with frequent feedings itll be better to get big again..but since its been 9months of us trying for our own 3rd final child itll be some time. Who knows we may not get too..took over year for our second and with my thyroid still messed up it could take longer still..who knows..
My oven is still weird working sometimes and not others, motherboards half melted.. i tried selljng my clarinet (wooden yamaha advantage ycl400) but this small town means only band kids are interested and no one has lowest asking price of 400$. The thing is over 1000$ im giving more than a major discount. I just wanna earn somthing to help my husband get a new stove.
If you have tips on selling anything or earning money, let me know. I tried selling knitted and crocheted hats and toddler clothes but im not fast since i have so many lil kids to care for whose at ages of frequent feedings. Plus it doesnt help tthat here everyone and their mother does some form of craftig so it doesnt really sell unless its absurdly dirt cheap. Making all that time i snached here and there pointless.
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