I have been documenting our move through Facebook before and after shots but as I have trudged out in two feet snow drifts to break ice, sunken in mud pits from leaking home-made pig waterers, wrestled a pig with explosive diarrhea and a flock of chickens and ducks into a touring Honda odyssey, spackled and painted more walls than I would like to remember, I have often thought, "I need to be documenting all these wonderful learning experiences." None of this, could I be doing without the support of family and friends! So here goes! You can sift through pics of Facebook to see much of the journey but I will attempt to document the fun here. If anything, my children will be able to look back on this and have a sense as adults of this time in our lives. I know for certain as a mother who lost her own at a young age, that I just love reading the very few letters that I have that are actually written by her and putting myself back in time.
Last night in the gushing rain and sloshing mud, Madison and I went out to the barn to check in on our new livestock guardian dog (LGD), born 12/26/15 and named Merry accordingly. We sat on crates in the stall while Abby and Arlo (our Nigerian dwarf goats) nudged us begrudgingly with their noses looking for a nipple but alas we are on day 2 of weaning and Merry sat trembling at our feet. We peeked over in the livestock run attached to the back of the barn at our two female Gloucester Old Spot pigs snuggled in comfortably with our other LGD and 3 sheep. Our 3 rows of roosting chickens were working hard to get in the right spot for the night with a few small ones venturing to the top row only to get pecked down. The pecking order is real. Mom and Dad duck and 8 duckling snuggled in the corner of the coop in a mound of hay. Madison mused about sleeping in the barn or better yet having school in the barn! Wouldn't that be more exiting than "sitting and listening to the teacher talk ALL DAY!" God knows I think about this everyday and wonder if I couldn't find a way to link the two. It pains me to hear those words coming from my daughter and I know many of my students feel the same way. But here I drift to another subject entirely, the one I think about from 7-4. A different blog is needed for that subject. There's really nothing that I enjoy more than sitting surrounded by animals, watching a thunderstorm pound on and just chatting with all involved.
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Alison Pearce
5/3/2016 02:31:05 pm
So excited for you guys. I keep wondering if you decided to do this when we visited Rocklands Farm with GPNS. I remember wishing I lived on a farm that day!
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