Well, we finally got rain. Some areas in Texas got hit really hard. The storm is stalling and just dumping inches and inches of rain. Rain is in our forecast for the next week. The land can’t absorb it so quickly so it is flooding areas. A previous blog of mine detailed how we found our property [...]
Archive for August, 2008
13 Aug
Water catchment, cisterns, water tanks
My last water bill was the highest it’s been since we’ve been living on the property the past three years. It wasn’t outrageous, and since we provide water for our neighbor’s grazing cattle in return for his maintaining 60 of our acres, it is bearable. And our 6 alpacas and 2 llamas get buckets refilled twice [...]
11 Aug
Finally, some rain
After much waiting and anticipation, we have had rain most of today. Nothing torrential, but light and fairly steady. The alpacas don’t like to be in the rain, but when it stops for awhile they get into the pasture and graze and then run in to the barn when it starts up again. They also [...]
3 Aug
Chickens in coops
Well, as previously noted in some earlier blogs, my 30 chicks arrived June 4 at the post office at 6:30 in the morning, just chirping fuzzy fluff, and July 4 we (actually, “we” means “just my husband, with my mental assistance”) started building three chicken coops; each coop to house 10 chickens. I have 2 each of 5 [...]
