Pics

Here are the pics I promised. Most are of the burnt barn and greenhouse but there is one of our new addition, Phoenix.

Love My Phone

I didn't think I was using my blogging app right on my new phone but apparently I did because I just saw my posts and my pics. Today is bloody cold! It is about 10 degrees out there. I had to use a hammer to break ice on the water bins for the alpacas. By the time I was done feeding I was frozen and my hands hurt so much. I have most of the animals inside so that is 5 cats and 200 lbs of dogs. It is getting kind of hard to move in here without stepping on someone.

    We spend quite a few hours repairing fences a few days ago and the dogs helpfully found a spot we missed. They need to stay put because I am not doing anything that is not vital in that cold. Don't get me wrong, I love cold and winter but I am still not going to go gloveless and repair fences unless it is life or death. I would really like to see some snow. If it is going to be winter I believe the precipitation should be snow,not rain.
   We got a pleasant surprise yesterday as we found a 3rd duck alive. We miss those darn ducks so much. I hope there is a secret group of them hiding on someone's pond and they will eventually make their way back.  Fires are the worst!

For some reason this cat cracks me up!

I just got a new phone

seriously I think this phone might change how well I blog at least how often I blog. I usually I don't write anything because I'm too lazy,but this phone has a speaker thing so instead of having to buy that dragon software for 100 bucks I can just use my phone as long as I talk slow.
I will add pictures of this  tomorrow but  the only new thing lately is that we had a barn fire .it was pretty bad and killed all our goats and almost all of our ducks.
what's even worse is that the insurance under insured the barn it was actually worth about $25,000 but the insurance insured it for $15000 so now I actually have to buy a smaller Barn. Still at least we have insurance that will cover a quite a bit of the things that were in it and the barn itself so  now I will just have to find a small barn that will be good for the alpacas. 1 good thing is that we had a very nice neighbor jump the fence and save  the 2 dogs that we had in the barn at least they didn't die that would be really hard to deal with.