Rebecca's journal-may be time to restart this
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rebecca100
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I think you're right. We are going to sell the one acre and mobile home. They're easy enough to come by and that still leaves us with plenty of land to farm on if we come back. Here's what we are looking at now if we can get our place sold before the tracts are gone. http://www.dougrushingrealty.com/public/show/1995? That's seems really expensive, but it is cheaper than most we have found. We should be able to get enough for his place for a down payment and have enough left that we can get it set up and a used mobile home put in. It is only 43 miles from fil too! 
I really like the pics and dh is going back Wed. and hopefully will get a chance to look at it. I am trying to figure out how to get a down payment while we try to sell this place, but if it is not meant to be then we will just keep looking.
I really like the pics and dh is going back Wed. and hopefully will get a chance to look at it. I am trying to figure out how to get a down payment while we try to sell this place, but if it is not meant to be then we will just keep looking.
TanksHill
Super Self-Sufficient
That land is really nice looking. Best of luck with whatever you decide.
Dace
Revolution in Progress
Oh exciting!!!! Looks nice 
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rebecca100
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I got 2 texas A&M white at Wal-mart in the parking lot. Some people had baby rabbits and turkeys for sale and the two quail. The baby rabbits though were nice ones and the guy said they were part wild and they did have very large ears, but when I asked how old they were he said they were 3 to 4 weeks. I was going to get one until then. That is just too young. I wean mine when they are at least 8 weeks old. I started to say something but it didn't seem like it would do any good, he seemed too sure of himself and wouldn't be interested in anything I had to say. I got the quail from the other person. Of course I got them home and sexed them and they were two males :/ . Now that just means I need to go get about 8 females. 
Now, off to CL to search for quail!!
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rebecca100
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Okay, I am excited!!! Our new incubator we built is now at day 18! We candled and so far we have 70-something survivors. We threw out around 16 inferitle eggs and 2 that died in incubtion. The rest appear to be healthy since several of them moved as we candled. The bad thing is I don't have a clue what kinds I am hatching, I just know they should be pure or at least half-breeds since they guy my dh got them from only keeps pure bred hens and roos, but I don't know if he keeps the breeds seperate or not. Tomorrow dh is going back to Louisiana to visit his dad and look for a place. I feel horrible about it but I am really starting to have second thoughts about getting a new debt when we are only $7000 from owning ALL our land down here again.(we paid it all off once and took out a new loan for dh's backhoe which just gets loaned out and has never made us a dime :/ ). A friend of ours pulled up yesterday to visit and offered to buy our land on the mountain flat out. He is wanted to get any land in the area that comes for sale and I'm sure he has the money, so we always have that route if we find a really good place down there. We have some work to do to this place before we show it.
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rebecca100
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Okay apparently my dates were off on the calender because this morning I have 5 baby chicks and 21 more pipped!!!!! 
So far I have had one dark chick with a spot on it's head and back hatch out of a white egg and 3 silverish chicks out of white eggs and 1 silverish out of a brown egg. None of the dark brown eggs have hatched yet.
Dh has already left. Both the kids cried their eyes out because he was leaving for a week. They are used to both of us always being here. He is leaving with a family friend to go down and can't come back until he does, but it will be a lot cheaper with him only paying part of the gas. Tomorrow kids and I have a family hike up a mountain which you have to ride a boat to get to with boyscouts. Since there is no one here to watch the other two for me that means I will be carrying or pushing the little one and dragging the slow one all the way up and it is steep too.
So far I have had one dark chick with a spot on it's head and back hatch out of a white egg and 3 silverish chicks out of white eggs and 1 silverish out of a brown egg. None of the dark brown eggs have hatched yet. Dh has already left. Both the kids cried their eyes out because he was leaving for a week. They are used to both of us always being here. He is leaving with a family friend to go down and can't come back until he does, but it will be a lot cheaper with him only paying part of the gas. Tomorrow kids and I have a family hike up a mountain which you have to ride a boat to get to with boyscouts. Since there is no one here to watch the other two for me that means I will be carrying or pushing the little one and dragging the slow one all the way up and it is steep too.
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rebecca100
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SO much for second thoughts!!! Dang 18 wheelers flying past the house and parking on the oil pad DIRECTLY across from our diveway and house!! Honking at each other as they drive by. Everytime they do it I run out the door to make sure the animals are all in their designated spots and NOT standing in the road. I made several trips out to check yesterday and the pad across from us looked like a stinkin' truck stop! The pad has been finished for almost a year now and it is getting common for them to use it as a parking lot. Tankers have been lined up side by side running for 3 days now. Going in and out. In a few more years I wouldn't doubt it if this area was zoned commercial. The Goodwill store has grown where it is 4 feet from the other persons yard who is our neighbor. So I can stand and probably throw a rock real hard and hit their roof. I was looking at he lot beside us that is for sale and was thinking that it is only 100 ft wide and the one our house sits in the middle of is also 100 ft wide(we own another lot on the other side which give us about an acre). That means if they put their home in the middle of that lot there will be 100 ft or less between us. Our land is pretty good. Kinda steep downhill, but it has beautiful, fruitful fruit trees that are loaded every year and it has a small pond that my ducks love and it has good soil, but I think it really is getting time to go. Whether we move to Louisiana and sell it or we move back to our place in the country and rent this place I have the feeling that it is about time to go. I also don't feel safe here without the dogs. We are between two trailer parks and there are constantly people walking back and forth down the road to the store or to the other trailer park. It sounds like we are in the city, but we're not! We just happen to be down the road from a marina and the lake with gets crowded in the summer with tourists. The other day we had the mule tied out int he yard eating grass and some people stopped with their kids to see the "little pony". Like we have a petting zoo. Sorry the trucks across the road and the rain have me irritated.
TanksHill
Super Self-Sufficient
You should have charged the people for petting your Mule. 
Take advantage of those tourist. Is it legal for the trucks to park across the road? Maybe you could bring the matter up to the city and see what they say.
Congrats on the little chicks.
gina
Take advantage of those tourist. Is it legal for the trucks to park across the road? Maybe you could bring the matter up to the city and see what they say. Congrats on the little chicks.
gina
