LightHouseAcres
Downsizing and God's blessings
10:07, 2.24.2006
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downsizing might be in action as I type this. Our horses are at a
friends farm today for some filing of their hooves. After that we
have a gentleman coming out to look at them and drive them. He will
make a decision if he wants to get them. He has grown up around
horses all his life and I would feel very comfortable leaving them in
his care. After that the men of our family will be doing some
logging with the horses. There will be 2 teams of horses to help
bring back the logs as they get them. Once the logs are back they
will cut them up for firewood. I expect my men will be pretty
tired by tonight :) While the men are out playing today, the girls and I are going to a friends house to gleen information. Our daughters will talk/play together while we talk. She has goats and is into organics. She is a walking book of knowledge. I pray our short visit will be fun and informative. What a blessing :)
I was concerned that if we sold our team of horses that the boys horse would be lonely. This was a concern I expressed to my oldest son. I told him they would have to look into getting another horse but of smaller quality. More or less something that eats less hay than our team. Well God did answer that prayer and sent us a baby belgian horse today. Her name is Annie. I think she is only 8months old?? A friend had a horse that wasn't growing fast enough for him so he gave the boys this horse :) He shows horses and the new thing with belgian's is sleek, skinny and extremely tall. To me they are tall enough to begin with but it's amazing to see how tall these show horses are.
We got the results from our milk cow's blood test. It came back negative for Johne's disease. That was a huge relief. She isn't even showing signs of it anymore, another blessing. We have been getting close to 4 gals of milk a day. My fridge is bursting at the seams with milk. We have been giving a gal of milk a day to our piggies. They really enjoy it. We can feed the calves the cows milk. The calves are getting big. They both will have horns. We are thinking of dehorning them. If we decide to keep them I would prefer them without horns. They are much easier to handle without horns. You can at least be butted by them and not worry about a horn sticking ya.
God is providing us with blessings this week it seems. First was the baby belgian and yesterday we were given a mini van. This mini van will help with our gas situation. My dh has been driving a suburban to and from work since last year. Work is about 70 miles one direction. Gas expense has been adding up quickly They are talking about gas being $3 a gallon this summer. I doubt we will be traveling too much if this happens.
Some prayer requests....
my Aunt is in the hospital and given only 2 weeks to live. her liver is failing her. she is my mom's only sister living. plus my mom's brother isn't doing well either. he is on oxygen 24hrs now. please pray for my mom and her family.
clear direction on our farm. which animals needs to go and the animals we get are in good condition.
we can sell everything we have up for sale
Blessings to you this day!
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