Here's to giving up modern conveniences! Part 1

This morning the weirdest thing happened to me after breakfast as i was going to go and check on the animals and the plants as i usually do every morning and i as i was walking up the path towards the greenhouse, i walked by were floretta was tied up and low and behold there were two baby goats that had just arrived into this world lying right in front of me so i yelled i guess floretta was pregnant! Even though one of the baby's was a still borne, the runt of the two was still alive and floretta was licking off all of the placenta juice right off her new child Madeline.

So this miraculous event changed the whole plan of the day cause all of us were now so entranced in the wholesome beauty of the new born baby goat, so while noel went of to do some research on the Internet about baby goats cause they had no idea what to do since we were all not aware that floretta was pregnant john cranford and i finished putting the fence up to so that we could keep both goats in the area that they needed to be in and so no dogs could get in to mess with the goats. Even though i think floretta would have handled that situation very well we could take no chances, i was even the one who first put madeline on the tit which was pretty fun cause she was sucking on hair underneath floretta's hair and after a call from noel i tried to the best of by ability to milk floretta but my technique was all wrong so it didn't work. It only took madeline about an hour to start walking with a lot of help from danielle and noel, but after awhile she was able to get up and walk on her own which was a sight to see.

  Last sunday was a trip back to the old days for me and the Circe Acres clan cause we set up an outdoor shower harnessing the sun and our modern ingenuity to clean our filthy bodies, for me the lack of a shower had left me dirty as hell for close to 3 weeks so i was in dire need of a refreshing shower. but before i could do that i had to have some clean clothes to go along with a clean body, so the day before i had picked up a old timey washing board and borrowed a clothes plunger from noel and danielle and set out to wash my clothes by hand for the first time in my life. this was a hard task to do cause first off my clothes are disgusting from the clay and my body odor so it took a lot of plunging and three cycles of water to get them clean, then since there clothes wringer was back in Ivanhoe i had to do all that by hand also which was by far the hardest part. Earlier that day while everyone was putting there finishing touches on the outdoor shower, i hung up a clothes line and let me tell you hanging up the clothes to dry was the easiest part of the process, but now i have some clean clothes so all the hard work payed off.

Since everyone in the household has been doing a great job of checking the local dumpsters there has been an abundance of food for us to indulge on, and it has lead to us having a lot more communal dinners as well with a bountiful amount of delicious food to be enjoyed by us all with a side of conversation. it is also great cause someone is always stopping by to check out the farm and even though we have no crops yet we can still feed them a great meal if they are in to eating food that has been liberated from a dumpster, which most of our friends are.

Last week we got some more baby chickens(12 more bardrocks, 3 black australorps) which were as cute as could be cause they were a day old, and i even got to pick the bardrocks up from trace at ECO and listen to them chirp all the way back home and once i got there i got to dip their beaks in water so that they would know how to drink water which is pretty fascinating. But tragedy struck that following saturday when we all left in the morning to go to the grand opening of the new Habitat for Humanity store which was awesome cause i got that washboard and a headlamp, but since it opened at 10 and not 8 like the sign had said we were gone to long and came back to 12 of the baby chicks baked in the greenhouse which was sad cause we had not lost a single animal yet which is very uncommon in the farming world. So after a burial ceremony and whole lot of grief we nurtured the remaining chickens back to health and vowed never to leave the chickens in the greenhouse when it is going to even be close to being warm ever again. But yesterday trace brought 1o more bardrocks back into the flock so even though the pain of losing them is still there it appears to look like we had never lost any at all cause the new chicks are the same age.