Getting that house sold will be a breath of fresh air. Between the property taxes, homeowners insurance, electric bill and home equity loan (used to buy the farm), and lawncare, we have been paying alot for an empty house. Hope it will all be over soon.
The next six weeks will be super busy. I am going to Maryland the last weekend in March for about 4 days, sometime in the third week of April, I am driving to Texas to see Robbie come off the plane from Afghanastan (so happy about that!), the house closing will be April 20th (yeah!), sheep shearing April 14th, have to get ready for three sheep we are getting, the last weekend in April is the sustainable living groups Nature Weekend where we learn what Spring plants growing in our woods are edible or medicinal. April 21st I am playing bells at church, finish emptying the Memphis house and in between all this Cris has to travel for work, we have to get stuff planted in the garden and oh yeah, Easter! Our April is full. May should be a breeze.
We sold a 5 mos old gilt and two more piglets since my last post. We have one more 5 mos old gilt to sell, one piglet is going to Alex's fraternity for their bbq pig roast, one we are keeping to breed, one piglet is spoken for in the fall for butchering and two are suppose to be picked up next week.
We have run out of hay rolls so we moved the cows into the pasture to start eating the grass that is growing. They prefer fresh green grass.
I forgot to add to our April list; make a chicken coop and set up electric poultry netting for the 25 chicks coming the second week of april. They will stay inside the coop for the first month until they are old enough..... About 4 weeks i think.
Our other hen is laying as of today so we are going to be getting two eggs a day which is good because the pigs love hard boiled eggs.
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