Thunderwolf Ranch

An up date on it all and grad night

                        Well , I tried to talk to the owner of the pig on thursday. I was nice , I asked mrs. smith if she knew when they would be builing a pen for the pig , because I need to move about 20 corral panels so she could put her pen next to the other pigs. I was told she did not know. I asked her if she would let me know a day in advance so we can move the pannels , she said no , when God tells her to do it she will. I explaned to mrs.smith that it was my job (and my family's) to move the pannels , we did not want her to move them due to health problems. Still no answer. I then asked her if she knew what they might do with the pig , as we are over the amount of animals we can have. We need to come in with what the county code is. I explaned that our jr.pigs are ok at this time as they are leaving in july and not coming back. They county code people understand butcher animals , they are more concerned about large animals. The horses are 5 , we have mr. moo and 2 sows, 2 jr.pigs ,2 bottle baby pigs and her gilt ( female adult pig that has not had babies).  So that is 13 large animals. The jr's are ok , the horses are counted , mr. moo is counted, our sows are counted and the bottle babies are counted and so is thier pig. That is 11 animals. We have not decided what to do with the bottle babies yet that is why they count. We have to decide in the next few weeks what we are going to do with them.  Back to my story : I explaned that the landlord needs to know so he ( we) can tell the county code people who is staying for good and who is going and who is for butcher.  I explaned that I was under presure to give them answers. Mrs. smith called me a liar. I was shocked ok still am. I tried to explane it to her again the short version. I told her I need answer , even if it is I will tell you at the end of the month if the pig is going to the butcher or if she has to be moved for the code she will be moved.  Mrs. smith lives on a 3/4 acre. She told me she can not give any answers until God gave her the answer. I then asked her why then 3 1/2 weeks ago she asked us to take in the pig to the butchr? She says she never did. But she did we (hubby and I) told her we couldn't do it at due to the divider in the trailer is broken we need to weld it before we put any animals in it as it could cute them up real bad. She was upset that we could not do it. She tried for weeks to give the pig away, I told her we will take the pig and donate the meat to a local shelter, no answer from her. So back to thursday I asked her if God said it was ok to butcher her weeks ago , why can't she do it now?  She walked off from me I said I need some kind of answer for the landlord and code people (i do not want to lose my farm rental if i did not give the landlord an answer), again she walked off I said  if you are going to walk off and ignore me you can take your pig home on friday. She got our home school leader involved in this mess. The leader tried to explane to her that we need to obey man's law and Gods law. Mrs. smith got mad and said I cursed her with the pig and walked off. The leader is helping me to remove the pig from our land. What hurt was ( beside the whole thing) is the cursed part.

We picked up the pig for her let her use on of our pens and water container. When her pig was sick (twice) I gave it shots of medicine , we paid for all the medicine for the pig and medical supplies. When the pig got a infected wound I lanced it two different times and put her again on medicine for the infection again we paid for the medicine and all the supplys. We paid for the land rent for her. ( our landlord charges by large animal , and not by the land).

We feed and watered her pig daily , they are now but we did for 90% of the time.

We did all this to help her and her family, they are very poor. We feed her family of 6 for months , helped with the pig, helped with car care, we did all of this because they were are friends and we had the means to help them. But what happened? over the past month she has changed. She set her husband on fire and the bed, called me to pray that God would kill him.

I have beed so worried that one of her four boys would call and say she killed her husband or herself. The church is also worried about that, so the stepped up to take care of the family.

But what happened to my friend? where did she go?. I have been praying over all of this and be told by God to back off , let her go at this time keep praying for them. I just do not know if I could ever be friends with her again after all of this. She is still my sister in christ , I still care and worry , but the close friendship is gone only God can repair it if he wants to.

Last night was grad night. Our girls look so cute. The baby wore a civil war dress and is moving up into high school , she is growing up where did the time go? My other baby well she looked very elegant and growen up  she will be going into the 11th grade , where did the time go? It feels like just last week we brought them home from the hospital. I will post some pictures later in the week. God Bless, thank you for all your kind words and prayer for what is going on with mrs.smith. mj