Fawn calved!!!

Heifer. 

I missed it. I slept in. Then made pancakes first. After causing a grease fire I was frustrated. So I went out to see Fawn 2 hrs later than normal. 

    I knew she would calve today! Last night her pins had dropped. And I still didn't get out early like I had been. I think I did too much yesterday. I was tired. 

   More later. Here are pictures for now. 

I had a silly idea.

We discovered a great vlog. Abundantpermaculture.com

It is encouraging and we upped our data allowance to afford a tiny bit of data usage on it. 

   But they did a 100 day challenge to see what they could produce. But I got curious what we could do in a year. In gardening and foraging in the wild. 

    At first I thought milking and microgreens would be cheating. But I feel confident that they aren't. They are work. Produced here. 

    So I'm starting October 1st. Weighing every thing we produce. Hopefully for s full year. But I am a great starter. Not so great at following through... But I'm excited and I'm just going to jump in and see how long I can swim. 

   We are putting in the fall garden this week. Need to clean up the trash garden. Bring in the pepper plants. And till the garden for fall crops. It is a tiny garden. So I think it is doable. 

    

But for now this sweet girl and I are going to sleep. Love to you all!

Microgreens

Our order has shipped!! I kept meaning to oreder. But it had to fall by the wayside for the summer. But I'm so excited!!!

Here is a update to the aerial photo

Our haven

This is a aerial of our nearly 10 acres. The picture is 3 years old.  We don't own the top right acre. Those lines are obvious. 

And we don't own just over 3 acres in a long strip starting in the top left. 

   I need to get a app that lets me draw on photos. I hope to do that soon. But I need to download every thing on my phone for more room first. But thought it might be interesting for people. 

Barn starts.

We were trying to decide what to do as far as barn size and shape. Patrick went down to the neighbors this morning to talk to him. Saw this frame. And ended up trading a half a bucket of sweet potatoes for it. Good deal! 

Patrick has to unbend one pipe and replace all four legs. So it is basically the roof frame. But it made our decision  for us.  Not my ideal. It won't be big enough to have a stall for her. Just a place for food and a stantion. Or now as I think about it I might be able to have a stall with a stantion she can't get into when it she is in it. I think I like that idea the best. Patrick thinks I need to have the feed barrels indoors. But they've never been in before. Not sure how we will do it. But part always does well. 

Fawn

Found bloody show on Fawn at 9:30. Had company. So we last had checked at 6/30. And at that time she was clean. It could happen in the night. Or insecure all days. But just keeping records.