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3/20/08 - 5th Day - After Supper. Today for supper we had biscuits, ham (canned from our own pig) over rice, and green beans from last years garden. Yes. Very nice, I must say. Today for lunch I had a huge salad from our garden, with chunks of our canned bacon and cheddar cheese. For Breakfast (since I am doing this) I had one of our homegrown eggs over easy with potatoes, bacon, and homemade wheat tortillas. I love Agrarianism. I would say in all three of my meals there may have been .80 to $1. Probably less than 80 cents I reckon.
The papers are saying our rain this week was a "million dollar rain" since it came at such a good time, came good and slow in order to sink in well, and didn't have anything severe with it to destroy anything. Everyone I saw in town had a smile on their face. I smile on the inside. We measured after the rain and after our bucket brigade and I think we have a bit over 800 gallons in our cistern. That is pretty good for March, especially since we were right on empty at the end of January. The prognosticators are calling for rain on Sunday again. I'll take it.
Tomorrow I have to go to Brownwood to pick up a young man who will be joining me in my ministry program. God help him. I also hope to pick up some things at Home Depot to make a chicken tractor and to fix up some more raised beds in the garden. The garden (what I have planted so far) is going gangbusters, and I am enjoying the salads out of it.
I went over and saw Logan today and he had some of the men over there helping him put the roof on his workshop/storage area. It looks really good, and I'll bet there'll be pictures up at the Ante blog pretty soon showing the progress.
We received some more chicks today in the mail from Welp Hatchery. I used to order from Murray McMurray but I don't any more for several reasons. They seem to be sold out of what I want when I want it, and the last two times I ordered from them we received some weird half-breeds and not the Rhode Island Reds that I ordered. They looked a bit like Rhode Island Reds, but they had mixed white and black feathers in with the red, and they were obviously some attempt at hybridizing the birds and were being sold as Rhode Island Reds. Anyway, my last few experiences were not good, then this year when I went to order birds all of the ones I wanted said 'sold out', so that was good. I have ordered from Welp before and always get a good deal, and what I ordered, and when I want it. We ordered 30 Rhode Island Reds and we received 37, and all were alive. I like a company that gives you more than you asked for. I still have about 70 meat birds coming in either tomorrow or next week, don't know yet. So our first chick flock was moved up to the chicken pen, and the new 30 reds were placed in the ultra special, non-electric, chicken brooder. I will post pictures of it soon since we had a request for it. I'm not as good with pictures as the Ante's, because I am still afraid that it is magic and when my picture is taken I might lose my soul. Not really. I think.
Ok, so we have had a great week, what with the rain, the chicks, the salads, the orange day celebration (Ain't Catholics Day), and whatnot.
Michael Bunker
The papers are saying our rain this week was a "million dollar rain" since it came at such a good time, came good and slow in order to sink in well, and didn't have anything severe with it to destroy anything. Everyone I saw in town had a smile on their face. I smile on the inside. We measured after the rain and after our bucket brigade and I think we have a bit over 800 gallons in our cistern. That is pretty good for March, especially since we were right on empty at the end of January. The prognosticators are calling for rain on Sunday again. I'll take it.
Tomorrow I have to go to Brownwood to pick up a young man who will be joining me in my ministry program. God help him. I also hope to pick up some things at Home Depot to make a chicken tractor and to fix up some more raised beds in the garden. The garden (what I have planted so far) is going gangbusters, and I am enjoying the salads out of it.
I went over and saw Logan today and he had some of the men over there helping him put the roof on his workshop/storage area. It looks really good, and I'll bet there'll be pictures up at the Ante blog pretty soon showing the progress.
We received some more chicks today in the mail from Welp Hatchery. I used to order from Murray McMurray but I don't any more for several reasons. They seem to be sold out of what I want when I want it, and the last two times I ordered from them we received some weird half-breeds and not the Rhode Island Reds that I ordered. They looked a bit like Rhode Island Reds, but they had mixed white and black feathers in with the red, and they were obviously some attempt at hybridizing the birds and were being sold as Rhode Island Reds. Anyway, my last few experiences were not good, then this year when I went to order birds all of the ones I wanted said 'sold out', so that was good. I have ordered from Welp before and always get a good deal, and what I ordered, and when I want it. We ordered 30 Rhode Island Reds and we received 37, and all were alive. I like a company that gives you more than you asked for. I still have about 70 meat birds coming in either tomorrow or next week, don't know yet. So our first chick flock was moved up to the chicken pen, and the new 30 reds were placed in the ultra special, non-electric, chicken brooder. I will post pictures of it soon since we had a request for it. I'm not as good with pictures as the Ante's, because I am still afraid that it is magic and when my picture is taken I might lose my soul. Not really. I think.
Ok, so we have had a great week, what with the rain, the chicks, the salads, the orange day celebration (Ain't Catholics Day), and whatnot.
Michael Bunker
posted by Michael Bunker at 3/20/2008 06:37:00 PM
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