More Animals

9/11/06 - 2nd Day - After Lunch. This morning was another of those picture perfect mornings. Ami was really giving up the milk, and I felt certain we were going to have a record day. Holga stepped right up when it was her turn, and things were going well so I turned the reins (teats) over to Tracy. Well, Holga moved and stepped right in the bucket, ruining the milk. Argggh. So later in the morning we called some neighbors who had posted a sign at the Santa Anna grocery that they had some pigs that would be weaned in a few weeks. I called them and it turned out they had two hogs each at about 130 lbs. that they wanted to sell too. I bought one for $75 that we can fatten up for about 30-45 days, and I think I am going to buy the other one too if I get some money. We'll probably keep the second one as a hog for mating purposes.

So we drove over to these folks ranch (about 3-4 miles away) and picked up our new pig. He is already named "Bacon". How unimaginative. When we had our first pig we at least named him "Sir Francis Bacon". Anyway, this hogs name is just Bacon. So we got Bacon into the truck (we had a goat cage in the back) with some struggling and much screaming. He is a good, tame pig, but didn't like being manhandled into the truck box. Our pigpen, built months and months ago for this purpose, is now being used for the purpose for which it was built. I didn't buy any of the piglets, because the guy wanted too much for them. I still hope to find 4-5 good piglets at a good price, and soon. So we thank God for His provision once again.

So now we have 2 cows and 2 calves, about 50 chickens, 1 blind goat, 1 crazy goose who thinks he is a dog or a person, and a hog.

We had a great Lord's Day, with good fellowship and good singing. The sermon last night was on Matthew 12 (Devils), and I hope to get it uploaded fairly soon.

We are looking forward to Ranchfest, and are working hard on preparing the fall garden.

I am your servant in Christ Jesus,

Michael Bunker