Granny's gone and done it again

[Granny Hatchet]

The last time we went out the husband was trying to give me $ and I said I wanted to go too I dont need money and he insisted . a little back and forth and he threw $20.00 down. I let it lay there.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I have to go to town for the 3rd day in a row. Dog food this time. I hate making all these trips.

That's why you make a list.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

That's why you make a list.

I had no clue I needed dog food as I dont pour it up.

 

[CapricornFarm]

My garden did terrible also. Except for pie pumpkins and butternut squash which were bumper crops. Barely enough tomatoes for BLTs and two quarts that I put in the freezer. Not enough to even warrant canning them.

I did get a fairly decent crop of Pole Beans that I put in the freezer for roasting.

I've been slowly stocking up on canned goods since January. I don't have nearly as much on hand as I would like to see us through the winter without having to venture out in cold and snow for groceries.

Since I can't count 100% on my garden, store canned goods are plan B. Frankly I don't know how the Amish do it, relying solely on what they grow both for meat and veggies.

They don't spend time on cell phones and computers, lol

 

[Granny Hatchet]

My Nancy is here

 

[microchick]

I respect the Amish for their faith, their dedication to community and their self sufficiency/work ethic. That is where it ends.

When we bought our farm from an Amish couple, he wanted to use our pasture for rotational grazing and spotted us 6 pregnant ewes. Suddenly our sheep and his started dying. After doing research and doing a fast visual check for anemia we decided they were all wormy and we ordered about 175$ worth of worm medicine, injectable and drenches and went to work. It was funny watching an eye doctor, a nurse and an Amish farmer trying to educate the first two on how to handle sheep. We spent an entire Saturday afternoon, in rain with 50 wet smelly sheep in our barn, grabbing one, drenching while the other injected and grabbed the other.

The sheep kept dying. Finally we had one necropsied. I called the vet who is our vet now and he told me the sheep were so heavily infested with parasites that our treatment was like peeing on a forest fire. We got in touch with the Amish neighbor via snail mail and told him what was going on. He picked up the medicine from the vet and treated the flock. We were down to 2 sheep by that time and decided to give them back to the Amish farmer and dissolve the grazing agreement. We had educated ourselves about the percentage of parasites in our grazing land and told him that the ground was going to have to rest for a couple of years and recover from being overgrazed. He sold the sheep and bought new 'more resistant' breeds because he didn't want to put all the chemicals into them.

We threw our arms up at that point and realized the futility of trying to bridge the gorge between our two ways of life.

We believed in a worming program to keep the flock happy and healthy, he believed in feeding them garlic and vinegar and digging a lot of holes to bury them when they died.

I did an estimate of the number of skeletons we found on our property and came up with approximately 10,000 dollars worth of dead livestock in a 4 year period.

It's like DUH!

I won't even get into the way they treat their horses and dogs. I could write a book.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Granny Dearest I am worried about your post on fb and you didnt respond! Whats goin on and obviously your not doing what you should be to stop the H As So I am hear <edit> HERE to complain and nag you

 

[CapricornFarm]

Nagging doesn't help. She won't quit smoking to save herself.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Ugh well there is much more than just smoking causing this, I assume she is one that can not change habits, its a sad thing, she is loved and cared for by many, if only she cared enough to make change.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I had no clue I needed dog food as I dont pour it up.

Well don't you guys talk to each other? Hubby always asks me if I need anything at the grocery store.