A Whole Lot Of Suck

Last night our generator died. It's out of warranty and we don't have enough money to buy a new one. We have a battery powered by solar that can charge our phones but that's about it. So here is one last blog post before my computer runs out of battery.

Although we haven't had any scorching heat so far, it has been pretty humid for most of the month, keeping it warm during the night which hasn't been nice. We've had a decent rainfall forecast a few times but we always miss out on most of it. Our property is in a dry spot, unfortunately. The dust is incredibly annoying and every time we have a windy day, it picks up huge clouds of it and it's impossible to keep it out of the bus. Everything and everyone is pretty much always covered in dust. 

The truck that is meant to transport our calves is fixed now, but immediately after that, we had a flat-out busy week. Tess had to go the vet twice, once to get a small lump on her face examined and then again for the surgery to remove it. The surgery went well and Tess has recovered nicely. We're still waiting on the test results though and hoping for good news. 

Now Spartan has started limping. He has some problem with his hooves, that will hopefully fix themselves with time because we don't have the facilities to restrain him for any treatment. We can hire a head bale from the vet but we don't have any yards, and he's not as quiet as Logan to just be led into the bale. Being homeless sucks and it was never supposed to be like this. So anyway, Spartan can't be sent away until his feet are better so they all have to stay for a bit longer.

The agility day was super fun and it was great to get away from reality for a bit. Skuggi ran the courses nicely for the most part and actually surprised me with how well he did with some new challenges. 

I am looking forward to our first real trial of the year which is coming up early next month. I was hoping to pull enough money together to actually get there. All the donations have been used up for food, fuel, and bills as usual and once again they've stopped coming in. So I started pushing my dog gear business again and I finally had another customer order for the first time in over a year but of course, without a generator, I can't use my sewing machine anymore. It seems like nothing I do ever works out.