Farm Update:

The MAIN reason I started this blog was to chronicle the adventures of our life on the farm.  Beginning with the purchase of the land, moving in the house, setting up shop and everything in between.  Seems I've slacked a bit and posted more to Crackbook than to my blog!

So, a couple weeks ago we closed on our land.  A nice 4-acre wooded area on a bluff.  We love it!  Since then we have begun to clear out the "drive-way" so we can pull up into the property as opposed to parking in the ditch on the road.  Well, in doing that we've basically determined that we need a culvert in the driveway because even in my big truck I bottom out bigger than life.  Too many humongous roots to just transfer dirt around... we tried, hence the broken shovel post on Crackbook. 

We also have marked several trees as our corners for the goat pen.  Boy, if they get that area cleared out Mama will be VEDDY happy!  We also determined quite a few trees need to be felled and even MORE trees need to be cut up that have fallen naturally and made into smaller pieces that are easily carried and stacked in some area that will be later decided upon until which time we decide to purchase a shredder.  There are a couple of nice little clearings where we thought would be a perfect place for our garden and for our small orchard.  We've picked places for the small barn and another inside the goat pen for goats and the pyr.

I have a local supplier for purebred chickens and will get those maybe this weekend... we will be discussing that later and will be getting the pen put together BEFORE that... of course.  I think the same supplier probably has goats too and we might pick out a couple just for experience and then get the dairy goats later.

I think that's about all the updates I have for now but tomorrow is another day.  :o)