Normal Life

Today was a pretty interesting day business wise. I spoke for about thirty minutes to my “coach” and got a lot of valuable information which I should be able to put into practice generating an income next week. More on that when I see results.

I did take the plunge and sign up for a weekend of online marketing training in Charlotte, NC mid next month. It will be interesting to see how difficult it is to coordinate the time away for Mama - with goats to feed and water (bottle feeding one four times a day and one twice a day), chickens to feed and water, cattle to feed and water, dogs to feed and water and let out for potty breaks, etc.

I suppose that at some point our lives will assume the simplicity that is supposed to characterize farm living but we are nowhere close at this point. I am not sure if we will ever be; nor do we ever want to be.

I have the goat lot fenced in now and will begin the barn for the sheep and goats on Monday. The construction projects have slowed down based on lack of finances and the time constraints of taking on a business.

On the good side, we were able to sell our disk mower for enough to pay for the goats we are purchasing this weekend. We have had calls on a couple other pieces of equipment but have not changed them out for cash yet. We are still praying for all of them to sell.

Grandpa came by yesterday to fill in the hole that had been dug for us when the septic system was being put it. It was five feet deep, twelve feet long and about seven feet wide. We have some dirt piled on the center part in the hopes it will settle in over the next few days but it is still too soft to do the finishing touches.

We even have the cattle closed off to that lot - that will eventually be for the goats - because i am concerned that it is too soft for them to walk in; and, sure as the world, they would walk on it as soon as we let them in. I do not want to get a stuck cow out of the mire.

Mama and I are headed to RU tonight. RU is a drug rehabilitation program that our church offers every Friday night. Four to six noisy, active, sugar energized four and five year olds keep us company during the two hour adult program.

It is a normal Friday night for the two of us.