7/29/24

Over the past few days I have had a couple of sheep get tangled in my electric netting fence. It had not been electrified lately due to needing repairs (from other goofy animals getting tangled). Yesterday I had a young ram get tangled, for the second day in a row, and today one of the new ewes was tangled so bad that she had separated where two sections connect and had the fence so twisted that once she was free I had to twist it so hard to UNtwist it that I thought for sure that she had broken the wires. I was lucky that she hadn't broken any wires.

This was before I had even had my coffee.

Dealing with the heat lately has made doing the smallest of tasks seem like a monumental pain in the you know what.

Every day dealing with the heat and humidity, and watching my animals battle the heat as well, makes me want to push to move somewhere that both I and the animals will suffer less. During the summers in the south, days become a quick get outside to feed to get back inside before every ounce of water is sweated out of every pore on your body, even my eyelids sweat.

The older that I get and the more amount of time that I am needed outside make me really think about things differently. When I was younger I was able to handle the heat much better (at least I think so). So I have been looking to make tasks easier for me and the animals and trying to think of ways to be more efficient, it looks like a long and costly road but it will be better all around. If I plan to continue my farming I have to get serious. It is not easy and sometimes I wonder if this is what I am called to do.

But tonight as the sun was setting, I stood and watched my herd graze, these are the moments I live for and I could have stood there forever. So in the peace of that moment I felt this is exactly what I am called to do.

Until I curse the heat tomorrow, happy homesteading and many blessings.