12:06 AM, Sunday, 31 January 2010
Temperature: 43 F
Livestock status: unchanged

Today's farmwork:

Rose a little after 9 and took care of all livestock needs. Minnow's water dish needed to be changed and its location altered as she'd urinated in it. Went for coffee and then to the hardware store on Gold for plywood, zip ties, wood glue, dowels, chicken wire. Then we went to the farm store; purchased 4 mm thick plastic (20x25 ft roll), 50 lb dog food, 2 dog dishes, 4 bales of orchard grass hay, egg cartons, and 5 water bottles for the rabbits. Acquired from the farm store folks for free 5 wooden pallets.

Returned to the farm and offloaded the pallets by the old wrecked home site; drove up to the house proper and unloaded the rest of our purchases. Checked quickly on things and then went to lunch; Jalisco Mexican food, very tasty, very authentic. Returned to farm store to pick up the rest of the hay, and got a handful of names of vets who do house calls for livestock needs.

Progress made although not completed on grazing arks for the rabbits. Buck and 3 does' cages moved to front porch for the night to prevent poor interactions between caged rabbits and uncaged house cats after one potential such. Angora doe (Minnow) still in garage; when arks are complete, rabbits will be moved to those.

Tomorrow should see more sheep and the dogs arriving. Hopefully all goes smoothly.