On Wednesday, I will be going and picking out a pig. This pig will be one that we will be raising to butch come this winter. I know, I said in the past I would not raise a pig again after our last experience. We are going to do things a lot different. I am not going to try to raise them. Just one to butch, thats all.
My mom and I were talking earlier today about how things are getting. The prices of everything. It is scary. By May, gas in our area will be 4.00 gal.. I went to the grocery store Friday, I think. I ended up spending 200.00. I just about fell over. I didn`t go where I usually go. I do shop at this store some but not all the time. I could not believe how much their prices had when up. I told Sam, I couldn`t afford to shop there anymore. I am starting to wonder if I shouldn`t just go ahead and make my garden bigger. I would need to go and purchase more seeds but I am thinking about it. Canning all I can. I have started buying my canning lids and I am going this pay day and buy a bunch more. Cause around canning time the lids get hard to find.
So with getting the pig and having a steer to butch that will help with the meat. Hopefully Sam will be able to get a couple of deer this year too. We will also eat squirrel and rabbit. I am going to order some meat chickens next month. I am so thankful I was raised on farm. I am thankful I live on a farm. It is hard work but I do have the land to live off of. I am also glad I married a farm boy. I really have to hand it to my hubby. He is working 7 days a week and keeping up with farm work too. He worked from 7-2 yesterday and came home ate dinner. Then we headed out and done work that needed to be done outside. We set fence post and ran fence wire. It was after 8 when we came in. I had to come before him before I stepped on a rusty old nail. Now my foot is sore.
After work today, he is going to get fertilizer for the hay fields. If it doesn`t rain this evening he will be spreading fertilizer. It will probably be after dark before he comes in.
I cleaned out the goat stall and prepare a stall for the pig. It will have to stay in the barn for a while until we get a lot build and a house for it. Well I need to go clean the kitchen and start dinner.
I am a stay-at-home, Christian homeschooling mom. My husband and I have been married for 19 years. We have been blessed with three kids,ages 18, 10 and 8. We live on a family farm and have several animals. I`m just a simple farm gal, who loves her God, family, friends and life.
