Banned myself...
1/28/07 - Lord's Day - After Breakfast. I haven't posted in awhile. I banned myself for personal reasons. Hope all is well with you all. We got through our really cold/wintery/moisture spell and we are back to somewhat of a normal cycle. We had sun on the 6th day and on the Sabbath for awhile.
Last night we had Q&A and a "party" fellowship down in the root cellar to celebrate that one of the young couples here on the land is now pregnant! We are excited about the prospect of a baby in the community soon.
This past week Mihai was gone vacationing in Portland, so Mark and I worked in the root cellar the whole week. We are supposed to be getting some concrete to start finishing up the entry way, and hopefully I will be able to buy some wood for some more shelves pretty soon.
We finally found someone who had some pigs for sale, and we have arranged for the purchase of several of them (several of the men in the community will be going in on this together). We are supposed to pick the pigs up this evening, so we will have to have a new fence put up today. We hope to keep several of the females for reproduction purposes, so we are excited about a new venture. I don't know if I mentioned that we got Mr. Pig back from the butcher. He weighed in at 230 lbs., so we received probably close to 120 lbs. of meat. Our main freezer is packed solid and we had to bring out a smaller freezer and we filled it up too. We will be bartering some of the meat, and some of it will be canned for the root cellar. We hope to butcher our own pig some time in 2007 if the Lord wills. This will be a great step in our independence from the system.
Once again, I hope all is well with you all.
Michael Bunker
Last night we had Q&A and a "party" fellowship down in the root cellar to celebrate that one of the young couples here on the land is now pregnant! We are excited about the prospect of a baby in the community soon.
This past week Mihai was gone vacationing in Portland, so Mark and I worked in the root cellar the whole week. We are supposed to be getting some concrete to start finishing up the entry way, and hopefully I will be able to buy some wood for some more shelves pretty soon.
We finally found someone who had some pigs for sale, and we have arranged for the purchase of several of them (several of the men in the community will be going in on this together). We are supposed to pick the pigs up this evening, so we will have to have a new fence put up today. We hope to keep several of the females for reproduction purposes, so we are excited about a new venture. I don't know if I mentioned that we got Mr. Pig back from the butcher. He weighed in at 230 lbs., so we received probably close to 120 lbs. of meat. Our main freezer is packed solid and we had to bring out a smaller freezer and we filled it up too. We will be bartering some of the meat, and some of it will be canned for the root cellar. We hope to butcher our own pig some time in 2007 if the Lord wills. This will be a great step in our independence from the system.
Once again, I hope all is well with you all.
Michael Bunker
posted by Michael Bunker at 1/28/2007 05:35:00 AM
1 Comments:
Congratulations on both the baby and the pigs! It is a blessing to be able to produce your own meat. We raise potbelly crosses that are a bit slower growing, but much easier to handle and process as one of our meat sources. I can easily butcher one myself if David is busy with other work, which takes a load off him.
Keeping your community in prayer.
Judy at Tabletop Homestead
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