Country Folks Can Survive

11/09/07 - 6th Day - After Breakfast. Preparation of the Sabbath. I cannot believe how fast this week went. I guess I can, but still. After working off the property last week, it was good to have a week here at home. On Monday I worked on a sermon all day, and that night we had a sermon and fellowship. On Tuesday we worked on the pigpen and on the piglets, and I spent some time catching up on e-mail, etc. Wednesday was our first monthly community work day (called First Wednesday) which was an awesome experience. Everyone gathered together in the morning and we divided into two teams to work on some needed areas of the land. One of the projects was to fix a bunch of holes and ruts in the main community road coming on the property. David got his tractor fired up and disked up the worst part of the road (the mud corner), and after a days work the road looked pretty good. Today, Lord willing, we will be having 24 yards of road gravel dropped on the worst spots, which will really help when the rains come (Lord let them come). Yesterday Liviu and I had to go to Brownwood to pick up needed supplies. Did I ever tell you I hate going to the city? Anyway, I was able to find a beautiful stainless steel milking pail at Tractor Supply for about $15, and we got a new lead for Pita and I picked up some homesteading magazines. Liviu got some fencing for his future plans with chickens and goats, and he bought a book on raising dairy goats. Oh, and yesterday I made the first payment on a milking Holstein we are buying. She is about a year old, and we will be breeding her a.s.a.p. so we can hope to be milking her this time next year. Mainly the Holstein milk will go for fattening pigs, and for butter/cream/cheese for us. We have a Longhorn bull (Qitachon) on the land right now, so we will attempt to get the Holstein bred sometime in the next 3 months.

Oh, and I should mention that I have heard the news that the economy is crashing, the dollar has collapsed, gold is soaring, gas is skyrocketing, and dogs and cats are living together. I might have more to say on that later, but...

A country boy can survive...

Today Liviu and I are going to help elder David dig his root cellar. The weather is perfect. It's been hard to suffer through 70's and 80's in November, and 50's overnight, but we are willing to put up with it ;)

God Bless you all,

Michael