You can eat Apple pie for breakfast and a pizza puff with hot wings for lunch, and then do an hour of hard labor, stripping a calf pen and cleaning out a barn. The guilt is gone.
Velvet the calf left yesterday. We are now down to a cow, a pig and chickens. Oh, and a ridiculous number of cats. Don't get me going on them. Ok, I will just for a second. Most of the cats are indoor outdoor cats. Next year, if I can get over my emotional unstableness, they will all be outdoor cats.
Emotional unstableness- as the polar vortex rips through the area, the cats stand at the door meowing and pawing on it for HOURS. I can't look away, I can't turn them away, and then I let them in. And when Doug comes down in the morning to get ready for work, he stands there motionless, as 6 cats are running around the kitchen and living room.
Cats love outside. Cats are able to live outside. Barn cats are mistakingly bred to live outside. I must hang on to this. I must believe it!!!
We adopted a single baby chick from Diane. She had a hen go broody, and all of the chicks died except for this one. She no longer wanted to keep it in her bathroom, I don't blame her, and so it came to live in our barn. It's in a cage right now, but as soon as it gets big enough, I'll just let it have free reign over the place. The pack of renegades (other chickens) come by to visit it throughout the day and try to figure out where it came from and why it's here. The chick is pleading the fifth. I think it's better that way.
Still no clear direction on what and where the farm will be. We want to feed those who need real food the most, and we're going to have raw milk. That's all I've got. I may try one more avenue for the farm to be a farm with an ag loan, so we can do it right, but I'm not hopeful. I am hopeful that Gods plan is perfect, and so much bigger than what I could imagine. And I'm sure that he will not leave his work unfinished. Even when we can't see it, he's still moving forward. We're just along for the ride, as Bethel is as well.
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