more pondering
May 18th, 2006
alas, it has been a very hard couple of months here. we have had unrelenting livestock tragedies. loosing 3 of our dear goats to a painful death (2 of them in our arms, the third died in the middle of the night), 2 serious injuries to our horses (both could have resulted in permanent lameness and one in death) plus having to cull 4 chickens (fowl pox maybe) and loosing a duck. the losses were not as devastating as the exhausting and heart-wrenching process of caring for them. it has been back to back. we are so familiar with our vet now that we kiss when we greet!
Crafting an outer world that reflects your most updated inner world …. Trying to find sanity in a collapsing empire/paradigm…
my biggest challenge is holding back my chronic urge to complicate my life: if you have 22 acres why not fill every acre? orchards, gardens, pastures, crops, timber, pond… the sky’s the limit (in theory).
with the goats. when you calculate the hours and expenses of running fencing, managing pastures, building a barn, milking, tending to ….. it would have been cheaper to fly in goat’s milk from greece each week! maybe.
the only thing that doesn’t show up in the calculations, scott reminds me is whether you love doing it even if the math doesn’t work out. that’s my salvation.
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