Milk and Honey
9/10/06 - Lord's Day - Before Breakfast. The Milking went good this morning. The weather has been near perfect, and the cows have been quite well behaved and accomodating. The Sabbath was a great blessing. We went to Santa Anna for breakfast with the Elder David and his wife Susan. Then we came back to the ranch and did some reading and study. It was a nice, quiet sabbath. I have been reading in Volume 2 of John Gill's Sermons and Tracts, and in Gill's Commentary on Genesis. I also started Thomas Shepard's The Parable of the Ten Virgins again. It never ceases to amaze me how the Lord will be teaching me on a particular topic, and no matter what I read, the reading focuses on that topic almost exclusively.
We are beginning to get prepared for Fall Ranchfest 2006. I believe we are going to be having a barn raising for Elder David, and we will have a few other minor projects here on the ranch. I look forward to it. There has been some good information on some local motels posted on the BiblicalAgrarianism.com forum.
We have the fall garden just about ready for planting, and will be back to work on it after the Lord's Day. I am looking forward to it quite a bit. One of the weather prognosticators I read regularly is saying we are entering into an limited "El Nino" event. This could mean a cold, wet winter for us here at the ranch. We desperately need the "wet" part, though I am not excited about the "cold" part. But I will take what the Lord gives, because we certainly need the moisture to replenish the land and the ponds.
Hunting season goes on (mainly dove now). It hasn't been as busy as the first weekend. We saw a few hunters in town, and hear the shotgun blasts every once in awhile. November 4 is the start of deer season, so we will see more hunters then.
The other day Danielle and the children went and got little Sarah Grace's new blind goat. Her name is "Helen Keller", or just Helen for short. The real Helen Keller was a goat too. This baby she-goat is funny to watch. Anyway, she does really well with the children, and she will walk at "heal" if she can hear your footsteps, and will follow you if you walk around. She hates to be alone, and when we stake her out in some grass or weeds to eat, she will bawl if she thinks she is there alone. I started to teach her to lay down and "stay" like a dog, because if you don't, she will walk around in circles and wear herself out and not take time to chew her cud. It is the cutest thing in the world to watch little Sarah (barely 3) leading Helen around with a short hand lead. She makes sure to have Helen on her right side and will walk with her until we tell her to stop. "The blind leading the blind" I say. Sarah has done really well with Helen, and is very excited to have her own pet at last. She informs everyone that Helen is blind and that she can "only see shadows". The cows and cats are fascinated with her, but Gary the Goose does not like her at all and he will go after her if we don't watch him closely.
Pedro (the bull calf) and Pita (the heifer calf) are doing really well. Pita is already very big, and we put a halter on her last week. She is a bit spooky and will not let you touch her usually. We have some work to do with her. Pedro is doing really well too, and he loves to run with Pita and Tiara (David's heifer calf). We have a good herd of Longhorn cows and I am well pleased with them. We are currently getting about 1/2 gallon of milk a day, which is plenty for our purposes, although we could use more if we are going to get pigs soon. We could get more but I do not want to pull the calves off of the cows, so we are only doing one milking a day.
I can feel that autumn is not far off, and it is coming up on a year since we have been living on the land full time. I came out here in June/July and began living out here in August I think. But the children and Danielle came out in October, so they are coming up on a year on the land. We have gotten a lot done in one year.
Anyway, it's almost time for breakfast so I must go. God Bless you all.
Your servant in Christ Jesus,
Michael Bunker
We are beginning to get prepared for Fall Ranchfest 2006. I believe we are going to be having a barn raising for Elder David, and we will have a few other minor projects here on the ranch. I look forward to it. There has been some good information on some local motels posted on the BiblicalAgrarianism.com forum.
We have the fall garden just about ready for planting, and will be back to work on it after the Lord's Day. I am looking forward to it quite a bit. One of the weather prognosticators I read regularly is saying we are entering into an limited "El Nino" event. This could mean a cold, wet winter for us here at the ranch. We desperately need the "wet" part, though I am not excited about the "cold" part. But I will take what the Lord gives, because we certainly need the moisture to replenish the land and the ponds.
Hunting season goes on (mainly dove now). It hasn't been as busy as the first weekend. We saw a few hunters in town, and hear the shotgun blasts every once in awhile. November 4 is the start of deer season, so we will see more hunters then.
The other day Danielle and the children went and got little Sarah Grace's new blind goat. Her name is "Helen Keller", or just Helen for short. The real Helen Keller was a goat too. This baby she-goat is funny to watch. Anyway, she does really well with the children, and she will walk at "heal" if she can hear your footsteps, and will follow you if you walk around. She hates to be alone, and when we stake her out in some grass or weeds to eat, she will bawl if she thinks she is there alone. I started to teach her to lay down and "stay" like a dog, because if you don't, she will walk around in circles and wear herself out and not take time to chew her cud. It is the cutest thing in the world to watch little Sarah (barely 3) leading Helen around with a short hand lead. She makes sure to have Helen on her right side and will walk with her until we tell her to stop. "The blind leading the blind" I say. Sarah has done really well with Helen, and is very excited to have her own pet at last. She informs everyone that Helen is blind and that she can "only see shadows". The cows and cats are fascinated with her, but Gary the Goose does not like her at all and he will go after her if we don't watch him closely.
Pedro (the bull calf) and Pita (the heifer calf) are doing really well. Pita is already very big, and we put a halter on her last week. She is a bit spooky and will not let you touch her usually. We have some work to do with her. Pedro is doing really well too, and he loves to run with Pita and Tiara (David's heifer calf). We have a good herd of Longhorn cows and I am well pleased with them. We are currently getting about 1/2 gallon of milk a day, which is plenty for our purposes, although we could use more if we are going to get pigs soon. We could get more but I do not want to pull the calves off of the cows, so we are only doing one milking a day.
I can feel that autumn is not far off, and it is coming up on a year since we have been living on the land full time. I came out here in June/July and began living out here in August I think. But the children and Danielle came out in October, so they are coming up on a year on the land. We have gotten a lot done in one year.
Anyway, it's almost time for breakfast so I must go. God Bless you all.
Your servant in Christ Jesus,
Michael Bunker
posted by Michael Bunker at 9/10/2006 04:03:00 AM
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