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SSDreamin
Almost Self-Reliant
Nobody knew that DH got to come home on Friday (after a 13 1/2 hour workday - he got home at 10:30pm, poor guy 
), so we got a peaceful Saturday.
Went and checked on the possible 'one night stand' for Ice Cream Saturday afternoon. DH is beginning to panic. We knew she'd be small when we bought her - the guy said she wouldn't get any taller than 38 inches, and she's 34 inches right now. Looking at a miniature bull, who is 42 inches, lets just say I won't do that to my baby girl! The guy was BRAGGING about the large calves his bull produced too - uh, not for her first calf, or any calf, thank you very much!
We could take her back to the farm we got her from - he has several different lines going, but DH is flipping out because it's a 7 hour round trip I told him I'd take her myself, because there is NO way I'll leave her with that big bull!!
The guy was very nice, and showed us around his farm, and gave us some great ideas for set up. He had come up with a great idea for a milk stand for the miniatures - sturdy, easy to make, and cheap! DH & I were thinking we'd have to build some sort of modified goat stand, which would not only be expensive but could be dangerous, since little girl is kinda pudgy (although, DH said she would look skinny next to the miniature milk cow they had
). He showed us how he divides his pasture up too, which was neat. He had quite a few miniature and regular size horses there too. One of the miniatures was AWESOME! The perfect horse for ss living!! The guy said he was a gelding (bummer! Those would be excellent bloodlines to work with ) and he used to be at the draft horse/Clydesdale farm up the road from him, used to let them know when the girls came in to heat. This mini was solid muscle! The guy called him 'the bulldog'! Amazing animal! He looked like he could work twice as hard as any horse there! I really wanted to take him home - guess that's why DH took the car
We had a nice drive home, taking back roads and seeing some beautiful farmland. DH stopped at a military surplus store on the way back home. What a cool place! They had reasonable prices on just about everything too! DH and DS#2 will need to make a drive over there for super insulated long underwear for hunting season, and maybe some nice warm winter boots for DS. They even had old Army vehicles for sale!
Sunday was spent on various projects. DH worked some more on the barn (which I HAVE been taking pictures of, but I still can't post them
), plus finished putting up the fence around the SFG's and burned off a bunch more brush we've accumulated. I had one job. Just one. And I couldn't complete it! We have a very invasive, thorny bush thingy that keeps trying to reclaim our yard. So, my job was to dig them up, take an axe to the roots - some of which were close to tree branch size - and throw them on the burn pile. I kept having to stop and rest, which stunk and slowed my progress to a crawl. 
Let's see, I probably got about 50 of them out, which only leaves about five hundred thousand to go!
DH got DS#2's go cart running, so we saw very little of the kiddo all weekend - he went through two tanks of gas out on the 'race track' out back
Oh, those of you in the South, can you PLEASE stop sending the heat up here? It was 97 on Sat/98 on Sun - that's just too much for this Yankee girl to handle!
), so we got a peaceful Saturday. Went and checked on the possible 'one night stand' for Ice Cream Saturday afternoon. DH is beginning to panic. We knew she'd be small when we bought her - the guy said she wouldn't get any taller than 38 inches, and she's 34 inches right now. Looking at a miniature bull, who is 42 inches, lets just say I won't do that to my baby girl! The guy was BRAGGING about the large calves his bull produced too - uh, not for her first calf, or any calf, thank you very much!
We could take her back to the farm we got her from - he has several different lines going, but DH is flipping out because it's a 7 hour round trip I told him I'd take her myself, because there is NO way I'll leave her with that big bull!! The guy was very nice, and showed us around his farm, and gave us some great ideas for set up. He had come up with a great idea for a milk stand for the miniatures - sturdy, easy to make, and cheap! DH & I were thinking we'd have to build some sort of modified goat stand, which would not only be expensive but could be dangerous, since little girl is kinda pudgy (although, DH said she would look skinny next to the miniature milk cow they had
). He showed us how he divides his pasture up too, which was neat. He had quite a few miniature and regular size horses there too. One of the miniatures was AWESOME! The perfect horse for ss living!! The guy said he was a gelding (bummer! Those would be excellent bloodlines to work with ) and he used to be at the draft horse/Clydesdale farm up the road from him, used to let them know when the girls came in to heat. This mini was solid muscle! The guy called him 'the bulldog'! Amazing animal! He looked like he could work twice as hard as any horse there! I really wanted to take him home - guess that's why DH took the car We had a nice drive home, taking back roads and seeing some beautiful farmland. DH stopped at a military surplus store on the way back home. What a cool place! They had reasonable prices on just about everything too! DH and DS#2 will need to make a drive over there for super insulated long underwear for hunting season, and maybe some nice warm winter boots for DS. They even had old Army vehicles for sale!
Sunday was spent on various projects. DH worked some more on the barn (which I HAVE been taking pictures of, but I still can't post them
), plus finished putting up the fence around the SFG's and burned off a bunch more brush we've accumulated. I had one job. Just one. And I couldn't complete it! We have a very invasive, thorny bush thingy that keeps trying to reclaim our yard. So, my job was to dig them up, take an axe to the roots - some of which were close to tree branch size - and throw them on the burn pile. I kept having to stop and rest, which stunk and slowed my progress to a crawl. Let's see, I probably got about 50 of them out, which only leaves about five hundred thousand to go! DH got DS#2's go cart running, so we saw very little of the kiddo all weekend - he went through two tanks of gas out on the 'race track' out back
Oh, those of you in the South, can you PLEASE stop sending the heat up here? It was 97 on Sat/98 on Sun - that's just too much for this Yankee girl to handle!
