Critterhaven Farm

Friends are Everywhere...

It is amazing how many true spirits there are out there.  To be able to meet friends like we do and form wonderful friendships...something we couldn't have dreamed of doing even 20 years ago.  I met a wonderful lady and her husband this past weekend when we went to catch chickens at her place.  She raises llamas also and she and I were so happy to find someone else who did!! Even tho my husband and I were there to help her out, I feel her hospitality really made our day.

I remember as a child getting my Just About Horses Breyer magazine and searching the ads for a 'snail mail' pen pal.  She lived in Indiana and I lived in TN.  We couldn't wait to get those weekly updates in the mail!! Now children are so spoiled to immediate texting.  Thank goodness my two and four year old haven't learned the computer yet!

I am so ready for spring to be here!! All I keep looking at are seed catalogs and sales lists for little critters.  Came home from the flea market with twenty one three week old chicks on Monday..future layers for the flock.  But I still know not to go overboard.  We are caught up on the mortgage..but next months is still due on the first and we haven't been able to refinance yet.  Hubby is going to talk to the lady at the mortgage help place tomorrow.  I'm to the point I just can't handle it anymore..so I'm sinking my energy into the farm.  We can't afford to pay someone to put up fences in the front..so I'm doing it.  Dewormed the cria tonight all by myself...I'll be sore tomorrow.  Pasture rotation is SO important..and these poor guys...12 goats now in the back pasture along with the 3 llamas and the mini donkey..have been on this same pasture for way to long...but what do you do when you have nothing else fenced in?

That and trying to ebay and watch the kids too.  Thank goodness the kids are SO well behaved!  Tomorrow is ebay...supposed to be raining so after I petsit, get the kids fed, the baby goats fed, the cria checked, and the baby chicks fed..it will be time to ebay.

I feel like I'm rambling tonight instead of having coherant thoughts.  Maybe I am..but these days it is so hard to concentrate when everything is changing and up in the air.

Goodnight all..and thank you for all of your wonderful prayers and words of comfort...nice to know I'm not alone out there. And I know I'm not..just nice to have confirmation!