I'd thought the winter would be a time of short days, kicking back, maybe sewing some moccasins . . . but as usual it's been nonstop work day after day. Splitting wood for the stove, planting more fruit trees, managing the garden in the low tunnels, milking the cow, putting out graywater, working with the dairy goats we got a couple months back . . . and the long, long work involved in siding the barn.Here I'm putting up gutters on the barn - just finished today:
Rita's stall now empty - we sold her 2 weeks ago. She was drying herself off, not bred, AI's cost a fortune, and temperament-wise she was becoming more and more unmanagable. We sold her for $900 - she went quick - sold 2 days after the ad went up.
Brooke and Rachael - up for the week. We got these 700lb round bales of good grass hay just down the street for $25 a piece. A great price:
That's Sascha over with Rachael feeding bunny. She's Rachel's eldest, and was up for the weekend with her baby [in other words we're grandparents]. Sascha's thinking of moving up, but is waiting for the cabin to become babyproof :)
Here is the goat stall in the barn for our two Nubians, Mabel and Onyx, who will kid this month:
The new coop in the barn for the layers:
The chick pen in the coop, right now occupied by our sexlinks. We've got a batch of day-old araucana pullets in a bin behind the wood stove, and 38 eggs in the incubator which will hatch out on Saturday:
The lone survivors of bobcat predation, Rosy, Claudia, Little Bit, and the ducks. We trapped a second bobcat and relocated him, but now have a small possibly bobcat kitten raised from the adults we moved going after the birds - he attacked a rooster but only managed to pluck a ton of feathers and leave the rooster with bare thighs - but the rooster's fine. Only one rouen and Little Bit are currently laying:
Sascha and her baby Jayce in the grass . . .
After a very mild winter, summer hit in March. Everything is either flowering or leafed out. We've abandoned spring planting and are going straight to summer vegetables. I've got mowing and mulching to do, as the grass is coming up furiously, downspouts to put on the gutters, and the upper story siding of the barn as soon as the boards get here.
What's the best political governing system for us humanity and why?
ReplyDeleteNone. If people cannot govern themselves, they end up pawns of the state.
DeleteNo political governing system is perfect, that's a given. But if none is the best, then what's the point of people governing themselves? You're basically implying a form of Anarchism or Minarchism - and that's a political governing system.
DeleteBeing independent, and self-reliant, with only respect for one's own authority, doesn't involve any ism's. Besides, we all know which ism's run the world today ... Z/C. That's not going to change - so there's no point in debating it.
ReplyDeleteThat's completely against the nature of human being as social animal. No man is an island, there's no such thing as self reliance, the need to socialize are innate within us (thus why the majority of humanity are socialists). Inadvertently, this fact also reject the validity of "one's own authority". After all - "authority" is a social contract and the simplest way to prove this is by observing the behavior of the smallest governing unit - a family.
DeleteSounds like you've got it all figured out . . .
ReplyDeleteWell, I don't think so. I myself has been wary of my own believe in Socialism-Anarchism recently as I have come to acknowledge that the "mass" are inherently irrational. In any case, I always find it intriguing whenever I come across someone from the right wing political spectrum. Anyway, it's been a nice conversation, good day Sir.
ReplyDeleteBarn is looking great! I think you made a wise choice with the goats. In addition to providing milk, they can keep the grass down for you too! ;) Thanks for the update! Always enjoy reading about your progress and seeing pics of the place.
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