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WELL....... MY CONCEPT – CLOSELY RELATED TO THE AMERICAN INDIAN’S CONCEPT OF BEING STEWARDS OF THE LAND.....HOW ABOUT.........

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THOSE FEW DAYS BEFORE THANKSGIVING ...WHY NOT HAVE THEM BE DEDICATED TO EDUCATION ABOUT FARMING—INCLUDING SERVING LUNCH ONLY FROM THINGS GROWN IN MASS--- AND QUESTIONING  JUST WHERE DID THAT GLASS OF WATER COME FROM?---  I WOULD PREFER AN ENTIRE WEEK OF 5 DAYS, BUT TO START THE 2.5 DAYS BEFORE THANKSGIVING SEEMED LOGICAL...

 

I HAVE RELATIVES IN COLORADO—AND TO THEM IT IS A SHOCK THAT   THERE IS NO MORE “AWAY” TO THROW THINGS...AND THERE ARE CHILCREN WHO HAVE NEVER HEARD OF CENTRALIA?? IN PENNA  BEEN BURNING FOR 50 YEARS—UNDERGROUND..—AND THEN THERE IS BUD—WHO READS AND THINKS.... HE TELLS ME THAT THERE IS A MAN IN NORTH CAROLINA WHO IS PRODUCING THE WOOD PELLATS THAT WE HAVE BEEN TOLD  ARE  JUST  SCRAPS LEFT OVER FROM LUMBERING...BUT BUD SAW A VIDEO OF TOTAL TREES BEING MADE INTO PELLATS AND THEN SHIPPED TO EUROPE.  DO THEY HAVE NO MORE TREES OF THEIR OWN???? PRETTY SOON WE WON’T HAVE ANY EITHER !!

 

BACK TO FARMING—I AM TOLD ( FROM SOMEWERE) THAT THERE IS A TRAIN FROM CALIFORNIA THAT HAULS JUST LETUCE.  TO THE EAST COAST ON A REGULAR BASIS...I AM TOLD A LOT OF THINGS...  ARABIA BUYS HAY FROM CALIFORNIA TOO BECAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE ENOUGH RAIN TO GROW THEIR OWN.. AND THEY LOVE THEIR HORSES...AND I AM TOLD THAT  GOOD CANADIAN HAY THAT WE FEED – AND BUY FOR ABOUT $10 A BALE... SELLS FOR $20 A BALE IN SO CAROLINA.... WHERE JANINE IS BUILDING>>>’’

 

I MADE A SPREAD SHEET OF OUR GOLDYS FARM EXPENSES FOR 2 MONTHS---AND THESE ARE JUST APROXIMATE... I HAVE SOME CLEANING UP TO  DO—BUT IT IS A GOOD INDICATION OF EXPENSES FOR 2 MONTHS...ROUNDING WHERE NEEDED.... 

HAY/FEED  IS OF COURSE THE BIG EXPENSE... AT ABOUT $6500 A MONTH... AND OUR HAY BOARD IS KEEPING UP WITH THAT .. DOG FOOD $200---- HELP SPECIFICALLY FOR GOLDYS FARM AND DAY CARE TRIPS...$1200---- STRONG ARM ( ANDY AND WALACE HEAVY LIFTING—LAND CARE ) $1200---   GAS $120 ( TWO TANKFULS)...   HAPPILY THERE WAS ONLY ONE CHARGE TO STARBUCKS FOR $6.90----    VET $500 A MONTH... THAT VET BILL CAN BE A LOT MORE IF WE HAVE “A PROBLEM”. 

THAT IS A GENERAL IDEA—I AM HAPPY TO SEND  A CLEANED UP VERSION TO ANYONE WHO SENDS ME A SELF ADDRESSED  ENVELOPE—KEEPING IN  MIND WE ARE CONSTANTLY MOVING AND CHANGING DIRECTIONS AS WE NEED “STUFF:  LIKE BUSINESS CARDS.. AND ?LOADING RAMPS...? BLANKETS FOR SKINNEY HORSES.... JUST “  STUFF”AND ELIZABETHS WISH LIST REALLLLLY HELPS WITH STANDARDS LIKE WORMING.

 

ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU THEY CAN PLAN EXPENSES ON A FARM IS JUST NUTS !

we are almost sold out of henny's pennies.... i did enter all the quick picks i had left in judys drawer--and that helped..... if you run into the sold out henny penny  board please hop over to the  hay board....