1 day- maybe?

MOOO?
After the long awaited final response from the Catapano Dairy, I am sad to announce we are goatless. At least for August, so far. With the State Fair coming up at the end of the month, it is almost impossible to find a goat prior to September 8th. After a quick brainstorm my light bulb went off. How about a cow? The idea didn't occur to me before because I figured with the size of a cow and other assumptions it would be a lot harder to handle and keep a cow than a goat. I was wrong. After some research and talking to other people (Orlando and my grandma) who have experience with livestock, I found out that keeping a cow would be a lot easier than a goat and they produce A LOT more milk. The goat would have produced about 2 quarts of milk on a good day. A cow would produce at least 3 gallons of milk a day. That's SIX TIMES THE AMOUNT OF MILK!
64 oz. v.s. 384 oz.

But with less than a day left I need to scramble and do pull an all nighter to find a cow (cross my fingers) for this coming week.

With the extra pen, which was suppose to be the goats, the idea came up of opening up the connecting wall and getting more chickens. With 20 chickens, opposed to 8, we could barter eggs for milk and other produce. Or we could just make very hefty omelets each morning.

Tent? Rain check! With the weather being as unpredictable as always, again we we're not able to set up the entire tent. I, unfortunately, had to work today so I did not go to the sight. Sylvia and Ken created a new blueprint for how to go about this for, TOMORROW! Because the originally layout we created was 16 x 16 and out tent is 16 x 24, they took a head start leap and re-did the layout so we can start tomorrow from where we should have left off.


Today I bought all the personal hygiene products I will need to August. What a load of stuff. It was very time consuming because I had to make sure it was all biodegradable and eco-friendly. Although a lot of things on the market say organic and all natural, it doesn't mean they can be used in the outdoors as part of the environment.

Sleeping? I am currently hunting for air mattresses and old mattresses in my basement and shed. My mom is the type of person who won't let go of garbage so I'm sure I can find three types of sleeping surfaces after intensively rummaging.We are at a pretty good rate, with the tent nothing being set up just yet, we might need to post pone our moving in for Sunday. It would only set us back one day, but it would give us a lot more time to collect ourselves and whatever else we forgot to cover.

I am really crossing my fingers, knocking on wood, and kissing the sky in hopes that everything goes according to plan. One thing for sure, I know that this project would have been way too overwhelming for one person to take on. If Sylvia and I hadn't paired up, it would probably not have worked as great as it has so far.