Livin' my life on the farm

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Well I havn't been on for like eons now have I! So sorry about that! I have been so so so busy!  This is just a mushed together note about everything that's been going on as of late!

Farmers maket has been going well. Chels and I have made about $200.00 now. yay!  It's been alot of fun. Fridays are busier then Tuesdays, about double the customers.  I sell about 11 loafs of bread on Fridays and so does Chels. :-)

I'm upto about $1500.00 on my fundraiser for my trip to Ecuador. :-D  I'm so excided! And it's only 6 1/2 weeks till I go!!!! I'm getting kinda nervous. :-p  Not so much about the being there but the whole getting there part. lol  I've never been on a plane or in an airport. eekk

Our bottle lambs are all weaned now. YAY!!!  But, we've lost 4 bottle lambs in the last 2 weeks, Teddy, Red, Moe, and Bubbles. :'-(  We lost them to bloat. 2 of them were my favorite lambs, Moe and Red. I was going to keep one of them for my own, Red. It was so sad. They musta got into something and ate so much of it and it streched their stomachs so much that it blocked the path. Eventualy they all suffacated. Poor Moe lived 3 days before he finally died. And we tried every thing to unplug them. Gave them mineral oil, charcole slurry, massaged thier tummies, walked them. Nothing worked.

Our adult ewes are all done lambing or so we think. We have two very kind people that allow us to take our sheep to thier pastures to eat their grass down for no charge. So we have about 15 ewes at our neighbors, about a 1/2 mile away, and about 20 ewes up and a friends place, about 10 miles away.  And we have about 150 lambs and 30 ewes here at our place.  Dad got a call yesterday from our neighbor saying that we had a lamb at their place. We were like "What!?"  Ended up a yearling that we thought didn't get breed did infact get breed and had a lovely white ram. Which dad is pleased about because we can sell him for breeding because he is "RR".

You are probably thinking what one earth does "RR" mean? lol I don't blame you I didn't get it at first either. Sheep can get a diesese that is called Scrapies. It's like Mad Cow in sheep. Sheep can have either RR, QR, or QQ genes. If a sheep has a R in their genes it can NOT get Scrapie. So if he is RR then what ever off spring he has will get one of his R's and can NOT get Scrapie. A QQ and a QQ will always have a QQ lamb. A RR and a RR will aways have a RR lamb. A RR and a QQ will always have a QR. A QR and a QR could either a QQ, QR, or a RR lamb. Get it?? It's like 10th grade Biololgy all over agian. lol Always wondered when I'd ever use it and here is it right here on the farm. Gosh, mom was right. ;-)

I'm nealy done with my school. YIP-EE!!! I'll be going into June maybe July with my english, but I didn't start that till a month ago. So that is to be expected! lol My friends are making me jelous though!  My cousin,Misty, graduated 3 weeks ago, and my friend Allison graduated last week, and my other two friends, John and Dustin, graduated Sunday! Arg!  I went to the boys graduation, it was about 3.5 hours away, they went to an academy. It was fun I got to meet up with some old friends and see the boys again. I don't see them too often. John moved 2 years ago so I only see him every third blue moon or so. lol And Dustin lives a bit away to I only see him when he comes to visit our church every so often. But he's moving about 6 hours away to live with his brother and go to a college down there. He wants to be a youth pastor. Very cool. :-)

Next week we are going on vacation for 11 days. Gramps is coming out to man the farm. He always has a good time out here. Sometimes he gets alittle prune happy though. He worked for the park department for many many years and they had a standard for every thing that that kinda comes out sometimes on our poor trees.  In the park they had said that tree branches under about 5 feet need to be cut off the tree. So they could moe around the tree with out hitting their heads on the low branches. Well we like natural looking trees so we just let ours grow. Last couple times we've gone on vaction gramps has started cutting our tree braches off. So we have some kinda ugly looking trees out there now. :-p

Rue and Tonno are doing well. I havn't rode Rue for over a month now. *blushes* I really need to get back up on her so she doesn't "forget" whos boss and all.  Last week we had some friends come over ,their my sisters ages, and they wanted to ride Tonno.  I was like "OK if you really want to"  Tonno is a good pony that likes to eat and be brushed. But if you try to ride him the pony in him flares up. He paws and kicks and side steps and rears and bucks and nips. All that good stuff. He's so small though you just might get a good bruise from falling off.  They were sure they wanted to ride so I got a lead rope and tied it to his halter, that's all we ever used on him bareback with just his halter. They hopped on him and rode him around. He was troting alot, trying to make them fall off. Which that happened alot but they just laughed all the harder. lol It was fun stuff.

Well I need to go. This got ooberly long! Guess that makes up for me not posting much ai!!  I have to make my bread and get everything ready today for market tomorrow. I usally do it in the morning but dad needs help in the barn tomorrow morning with the sheep. We have 4 people comeing in the next week to buy sheep so we need to get them all sorted and such.

Have a great day!

Kate

Hello...

{ 7:17, Sunday, June 3 } { Posted by SuperHorseSteader }

I don't have time now to read your post, but will later.
Thanks for coming and encouraging me.
The girls got out today again!! AGH!!
Amanda