December 30, 2015

Today I came home to a wife who had a bad day.

So I took her out to pick up trash off of the farm for an hour on a dry thirty-six degree early evening. Poured champagne down her throat for every trip to the dumpster. Then we wandered in the cold for fifteen minutes.

Her day, and mine own, was greatly improved.

December 27, 2015

Christmas 2015

Carmen is having babies in January

We're not on the Farm yet. But if you consider that last year at this time the Farm was deep in the future, not something real at all. A dream without form.

This year we came far. We found the place by accident. For some reason able to find the owner and buy the place. Now the dream is real, but only on one edge. The chore is to bring the whole thing into the real world.

My New Year's resolution this year:
Build a house and move my wife and dogs into it before next Christmas.

December 16, 2015

Great news. House Bill 320 goes into effect in January. This allows us to build our kitchen and sell our food products without commercial licensing until we get busy enough to need a commercial kitchen license.

December 15, 2015 - Puppies on the way!

So we're excited about this. Our first litter. 

Part of a much bigger plan. 

The bigger picture includes moving everyone out the the Farm and new kennels, but this takes money we simply cannot earn any other way except by breeding the high value "crop" of Basset Hound Dogs. Step one (collect underpants) was to purchase good breeding stock and enter into the professional Basset Hound breeding business. In this we intend to be successful; but it must be re-stated, emphatically, that this exploitation of living things (moral patients), as a resource, was always intended to be the first step toward building a better place for us all. Finding the Farm property was always intended to be step two. We got is a bit backward, but in the end the plan is taking shape as we intended.

Morally this is might be questioned. 

So I offer this explanatory bottom line answer to any moral concerns:

• We intend to be farmers in the very real business of farming and exploiting animals is a part of that. Even cute, cuddly, happy, warm, friendly, long eared, and playful animals will be exploited at our Creekside Farm.

We only hope that everyone understands that we give our dogs (livestock) the best home we can afford, all they love and respect they need, and seek to find homes for their offspring which will be loving and safe.

Puppies on the way!

December 13, 2015

Found an interesting article "The Market Gardener" on Mother Earth News today. The guy operates a 1.5 acre farm which produces enough to keep a family of four comfortably.

Gives me hope. I bought the book.

The Market Gardener

December 7, 2015

We haven't had much opportunity to get out to the farm for a few weeks now. Winter is setting in and money must be saved. But today brought record rains so we had to go see what three inches did to the creek.

Normally the creek has been at about a foot, deep in a ravine about sixteen or twenty feet deep. Today the water was six or eight feet from the top. An amazing amount of water.