Footloose Farms
Dreaming...I find myself dreaming all the time about our new home in the woods. DH and I have the same ideas for our new place. We want a lot of windows on the south side of the house, for one. The house we’re in now (well, mobile home with an addition) doesn’t have many windows and the winter can get so gloomy. I have a semi large window on the west end of the addition that seems to germinate seeds relatively well, and the house plants that are there grow well also. But the thought of having large windows where we can bask in the sun on cold days really makes me smile. I would love to grow sedums and orchids someday too. We visited I often imagine myself sitting between the windows and stove crocheting or reading a good book and glancing out the windows at the wildlife (deer, elk, birds, etc.) or the kids playing in the snow (we’ll have a lot more snow there than we do here). Every year DD dreams of making snow men and sledding but only every 3 years or so can we do them due to lack of snow. We do get the cold though! Minus 30 F is common for here, but where we’re moving, the temps are much more mild in the winter. DH and I are beginning to draw up plans for our barn. We’d like to house as many of the animals under one roof as we can. We have such a gorgeous view from our land, we don’t want to obstruct it with a bunch of sheds and such. We also have lions, bears and wolves where we’re moving so a good fence is also in the plans. 5 foot no climb is on sale at our local hardware store right now and we’re going to buy 4, 100’ roles. We’ll have a strand of electric wire about 2 ½ ft high along the outside of the fence and mabe another along the top. I think this will help with our goats leaning on the fence too. Hopefully the kids can play outside without me worrying about predator critters. The animals will all be locked up at night to keep them safe, and I think we’ll install a few motion detector lights. We’re not going to have power for the first couple of months so things will have to be run from the generator and solar. We’ve thought about going totally solar, but we use so much power (two freezers, one fridge, washer, dryer, hot water tank, etc) that we just don’t think off the grid living will do for us right now. However, the downside to bringing power and phone in to where we live is it will increase the value of the property around us and we may get neighbors…. Hmmm… So we keep tossing ideas around about that one. Well, it’s breeding season for the goats. I’m trying to get our doeling, Honey, bred this month. Since I’ve never had goats until this year, I’m just learning about their heat cycles and what to look for. I don’t think Honey has cycled yet this month, atleast I’m hoping she hasn’t. Every day she’s in with Happy Feet (our Nubian buck) for the day and I put her back in the does pen with Mrs. Paign at night. I’m hoping Happy (who is also a youngster but seems to know his stuff) will know when Honey is in standing heat. Anyway, I know things never go exactly as planned for me, but if I can get Honey bred this month, and Mrs. Paign bred next month, the kids will be taking most of the milk during the time we’ll be moving. That would be SOOOO nice, not having to milk during that time. Well, I’m actually boring myself, so I’ll go for now. *This photo was taken this summer. I just found another disk with more flower photo’s. Man I take a lot of pictures!*
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