August 2019
While it is TRUE our 12 acres has fish, frogs, night critters and snakes......
we ALSO have a barn and a few pastures that came with the property. One pasture behind our house Brooks kept saying he needed a tractor or something to keep it low. A friend came over to discuss farm-stuff and told him the cost of a tractor. It probably stunned Brooks for a few seconds because the friend then said, "Orrrrrrr you could get some goats to keep it low"
*LIGHTBULB*
An idea was started and the excitement spread to the girls.
I actually went along with the idea after I heard the tractor price and Brooks' plan. The plan was to get the boys to put up an electric fence (bonus- get them doing "real" farm work), buy three goats and eventually breed them and sell their "kids". THIS way they keep the pasture low and also make a little money and HELLO.....baby goats are the best.
So apparently we are NOW goat-owners. Who'da thought?!?!
This is Aleeya's goat, Pepper (female)
Iris' buck, Barnaby
And the other female was to be Royce's named "Ginger"
I say "was" because when Royce found out he'd have to let them out every morning and put them back in the barn at night and make sure they had food/water, etc. He decided to give his goat to Aleeya apparently.
Here is our first day with the goats. Welcome Home kids!
They really are quite social and sometimes come out. I looked outside and saw a football game being played with goats dispersed throughout the game. The scene cracked me up.
But BEFORE goats became a thing for us I had been on the HUNT for some mini goldendoodles. The kids and I have always wanted a dog. However, Brooks and I have allergies, they are a TON of work AND Brooks still didn't see a good "purpose" in having them. Brooks and I then came up with the idea (after learning how much goldendoodles go for) to BREED them. We talked about it with the kids. We told them if YOU all did most of the work with the dogs (and stuff around the farm), then we would use the money from the sold puppies to pay for their church missions. If they didn't, then they would end up paying for half of their missions. The kids saw this as a win-win since they wanted the dogs anyway AND they didn't need to pay for missions.
The name of our puppy/goat selling farm came pretty easy....
I was on the hunt for two females and one male that would each be assigned to our three oldest boys. It's actually super hard to find one of these puppies sold with breeding rights, but I found a little blonde girl eventually. She was going to be Emerson's dog. I took Emerson with me to pick which of the two blonde girls we wanted.
We still had to wait 2 more weeks to pick her up though.
At the same time Brooks was in Utah.
With no forethought I just decided to look on the classifieds out there and see if another mini goldendoodle was ready right then. Knowing what I know now, that was a really silly thought since available ones are hard to find.
I think Heavenly Father was watching out for us, because I found the most PERFECT looking male to be the stud of the breeding program....and since they were PAST ready to go home the owner even gave us a discount!!!! Funny how Brooks wasn't planning on flying home with a puppy but it just worked out.
I can NOT even SAY how excited I was to get my hands on little Tux.
He's absolutely perfect.
..... just like Kellyn's splits. HA!
Tux is Camden's dog and boy did they (and DO they) have a connection.
FINALLY the day came a week or so after to go pick up Emerson's dog he named "Sandy" (after the fact that we were going to pick her up on our way home from the beach.....but there was a hurricane so our beach home cancelled on us)
If there EVER was a cosmic connection between puppy and owner it was right here.
Sandy is just so fluffy and snuggly!
And there you have it, the start of our Red Barn Mission Farm.
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