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TriciaStringer

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Years ago my husband and I had a very small herd of limouzin cattle, all female, and we borrowed a young bull to be with them for a while. It's a French breed with a nasty disposition. The bad thing about old age is I don't remember why. Did we make and sell babies? Did we butcher for the freezer? About the only thing I do remember about having them was one of the cows had a rough calving and was unable to get up after. We had the vet out, but she eventually died. We must have eventually sold off that group. Then I remember we had two black angus/limouzin cross cows. Those had a much better disposition. We raised and sold several babies from them. When my daughter and I traded house I left the cows there. They lived into old age and were eventually put down due to old age problems. Oh man. . . I haven't thought about that in an awfully long time.

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I think I’d like to sit on a porch with you and just hear stories.
 

TriciaStringer

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I had the bat detector out for an hour this evening and picked up 3 species of bat definitely with 3 that need reviewing by my daughter. I am pretty pleased with 3 over a suburban garden. Six would be amazing!

So we have (library photos my trace)

Serotine
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Soprano Pipistrelle
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And Common Pipistrelle
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that was very close to the detector (so loud!) and chatting to the Serotine
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Cool! Husband wants to put up a bat house. Those flying eaters are so helpful with trimming the mosquito population. He used to watch them when he was a kid. They would fly down and catch a sip from his swimming pool.
 

TriciaStringer

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Well I'm sure everyone remembers how we have been job searching for hubby. Basically the entire process had become so frustrating and on several occasions, infuriating. We decided to sit down and have a serious conversation about what we WANTED our future to be.
It was not to work the rest of his life for an industry that was going to undercut him every chance they get.
He said that he wanted to be his own boss, but was never brave enough to go into business for himself. So then we started discussing more and more about the kind of "business" he might get into. The biggest issue is that hubby can do so many things.. at first it was "what kind of things could he do that would be the most profitable", then it became "what do you ENJOY doing the most.
Several long and somewhat emotional conversations later we both came out and said it.. instead of just farming as a hobby like we have always done.. let's make it our actual living! We both love it and it has always been part of our lives.
So we both started researching. Then we started making a business plan, followed by more research and making changes to the business plan. Lots of phone calls and emails have been made and more planning is still being done.
It's all been very exhausting but the more effort and time we put into it, the more excited we get. It's not going to be easy, but we really can do this.
We will be moving back to Texas in mid/late July. Daughter will be out of school and hubby will have his five years at his current job.
When I'm not researching, I'm going through things and packing stuff up. I have a small mountain of things that will be donated. The house is ready to be sold other than the floor trim in the bathroom needs put in. We even know what realtor we will use.
Clunker is oblivious to all the excitement. Although I've started taking him with me when I pick my daughter up from school in a plastic tote(Clunker in the tote, not daughter). Kinda hoping it will ease the stress of the long car ride he will have in July. He seems to not mind it, he will even eat while I'm driving.
Sounds like an incredible adventure! I can’t wait to hear all about it. We aren’t insanely far from you. We can come love on a cow! Emogene is begging for one but the new place really doesn’t have room for it after doing tortoise enclosures, two grazing pastures for goats and a chicken house. Also, she wants it as a pet and hubby wants to eat it.
 

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So sorry Noel. That just doesn’t sound good at all. How does it make you feel? Dizzy?

Hi Kathy [emoji851]
It can at times. It’s more tiring then anything. I have drive with a patch over my right eye so there’s that. [emoji1022]‍☠️♀️
Anyways, as you can see, it didn’t stop me from runtime of my favorite runs yesterday.IMG_2952.jpgIMG_2951.jpg
Happy Sunday roommates
 

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Good evenooning all!

Before I hurt my knee, JoesDad and I booked ourselves into a Bittern Breakfast at RSPB Dungeness.

A very early rise (5am) to get to Dungeness point ... basically a large shingle peninsula into the English Channel... for a 7am start where we were taken round the reserve by a volunteer and a warden to heat Bitterns booming and identify other birds for a couple of hours ... followed by a hot breakfast of porridge, sausage and bacon rolls, tea/coffee, fruit juice and fruit.

Despite Storm Hannah and my leg, we went this morning. Hannah decided to dump most of her rain elsewhere so we ‘only’ had the gale force winds in one of the more exposed parts of the country.

We had a brilliant day, staying on after the guided bit, seeing 45 species including Marsh Harrier, Peregrine and Raven and we heard the Bitterns (you will have to Google it - it sounds like someone blowing over the top of a large bottle)

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And we also found a Grass Snake
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A Field Vole
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And a teeny-weeny baby Smooth Newt that can have only just left the pond it hatched in (they’re a tadpole species)
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We’re feeling a little windblown now. Supermarket lasagne for dinner, a bottle of wine and an early night in order [emoji4]

Gorgeous [emoji173]️
 
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