Year Seven On The Farm

This week begins year seven of farm life for us out in the country. We have completed six years out of the city! Isn't that amazing? Before this, I have always lived in the city or the suburbs but I do like farm life with chickens and goats.

For this week, we will revert back to the old way of doing a week because there is no specific article subject. Starting next week, we will go back to the newer format with the article at the top of the page and the daily journal at the bottom.

Year Seven On The Farm - 7/28-8/3/25

Monday, July 28, 2025

Good morning. The highlights of today will be the pest control man coming by for his monthly visit. We need to go to our bank because our savings account has just disappeared. I could not get into my online bank account on Friday. Then on Saturday, along with yesterday and again this morning, I can get in but our savings account is gone. How is this possible? Is it an update error? Can they just take away an account along with the money you have in there? It is truly ridiculous. I have had bank accounts for many years and I have never had this problem before.

It is pay day and I have to pay our bills as well.

I need to get ready for the day and see all of the fun that this day holds.

I called the bank this morning and I spoke with three women. The third one handles online banking. She told me it was no big deal that I could not see my savings account. She said it went dormant and when that happens they take it away (hoping you will forget about it--I added this part myself.) I assured her it was a big deal because I no longer have access to my money. She said she would have it reinstated so I could have access to it but I would either have to start adding to or taking away from the account.

After about an hour, the savings account appeared and I added to it from the checking account. I also added to the Money Market just in case they decide to take that one away. I guess I will have to play the silly game of moving money round and round so they don't take the accounts away. I am a busy woman. I don't have time to play with bank accounts. Too bad on me.

I fed the kitten and touched her a few times and then I fed the fish. I closed a few orders and then started a new loaf of sourdough.

While I was doing that, Matt came in the house with groceries. We had a grocery delivery that I did not know about. We got those put away and then the pest men showed up. One of them bought some zinnia seeds.

Then Nacho and his son showed up and I was not expecting them. They are out back taking out part of our fence, some water hookups and electrical hook ups so that the feed shed can be moved easily tomorrow. They will also be installing vents and window A/C units in the Farm Store. It gets mighty hot in that place now.

Both contractors are here at once...

It is now 2:10pm and a man from church is here to possibly fix a leak in our backyard tank. This is why I had no water pressure yesterday when trying to get water to my chickens and goats. Hopefully, he can get that taken care of.

Meanwhile, I keep closing orders that I pulled yesterday and the count of orders keeps going up instead of down. I cannot seem to get ahead here!

Nacho is cutting a hole for a vent in the Farm Store. He put one on each of 2 sides so it won't be so blessed hot in there.

The man from church fixed the tank and Nacho left sometime after 6pm. I stopped working at 8pm. The kitten was outside the door wanting food so before I came home, I had to feed her. She got really close to me while I had the bag of food. As she stood there with her tail straight up, I finally saw that she is a girl. Her name is Samantha.

It's a girl! I have named her Samantha.

I was exhausted and went in to find that David had made dinner. I baked the sourdough in two small loaf pans this time instead of the Dutch oven because David said that he could not make a sandwich with the sourdough bread. It is all in how you cut it.

There is nothing like a slice of warm buttered bread fresh from the oven!

The bread is absolutely delicious, very crusty and soft on the inside, probably my best ever.

Below is the sunset as it appeared as I was feeding Samantha.

Here is the sunset from the porch between my office and the Farm Store.

Year Seven Of Farm Life

This was our first view of the property we would purchase, in June of 2019, fenced and full of weeds and wildflowers that were waist high. See the oak tree at the top of the property.

Six years ago, we were packing up our beautiful home in San Antonio that we built and moved into back in 2001. We had a buyer at this point but it is a big job to pack up 18 and a half years of living. One tends to acquire a whole lot of possessions when raising a family and living in one home for that long. Plus, it was a big home with lots of storage. I thought we would spend the rest of our lives there and just like that, we were leaving.

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Year Seven Of Farm Life

This is what our new home on the farm looked like from the road. We had to put up a gate in the front.

Before we closed on the farm, we had already paid to have our electricity turned on which took four months. We also paid to have our water turned on. We paid to have the property mowed so we could get on it. Then, after we closed, we had people come out to create a driveway and a solid pad for our home to sit on.

We purchased a new double wide manufactured home because we did not have time to build since someone bought our home in San Antonio right away. Unfortunately, the manufactured folk took their sweet time so we had to buy a shed to live in for three and a half weeks before they would put it together. Then, it took over a week for it to be put together once the guy started working on it. What a miserable time we had because they couldn't get their act together.

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Year Seven Of Farm Life

This is our original 4 acres after we had it mowed. Notice that nothing was on the land next to us yet. It was a hot, dry summer so everything is brown back in 2019.

Today begins our official year seven of farm life! Six years ago today, we closed on our farm paying in full with cash on the original four acres. Back then, just these four acres were available for purchase. The land owners around us said that they would not sell us any land. Then back in January of 2024, one changed his mind and we bought an additional four acres which we are now in the process of selling because the land values have gone up according to Atascosa County.

Now, in year seven of farm life, we are hoping to sell this four acres of land. Property taxes are eating us alive. We never should have bought it. The idea was that we would also buy the next four acres but because of the economic turn down, we did not have the extra money.

We wanted 12 acres so we could have a small shooting area to practice shooting because you have to have a minimum of ten acres to shoot in this county according to the sheriff. Before that could happen, someone else bought the other four acres.

We are hoping to sell two of our large buildings during year seven of farm life. We are currently in the process of emptying them. They are on the market but the guy in charge has not scheduled one showing and it has already been two months. David is going to have to sell them himself. This guy apparently has no clue. We have already sold three of our sheds on our own. So far, one has been removed.

Thursday, July 31, 2025

Year Seven Of Farm Life

I hope year seven of farm life turns out better than year six did. In year six, the economic turn down got worse and we were forced to do a lot of things that were never part of the plan. We always thought our business would grow bigger and bigger, not smaller and smaller. There is hope on the horizon as the new administration is fixing the country.

Friday, August 1, 2025

Year Seven Of Farm Life

Six years ago today, David picked up his first John Deere riding lawn mower. Since then, people coming on the property and some of our employees have broken it over and over. I keep telling David to lock it up and make people use their own equipment. We always have to pay for repairs on it.

Saturday, August 2, 2025

Year Seven Of Farm Life

Six years ago today, we had to take our new mailbox to Hondo, Texas to have TXDot place it when and where they decided on our property. Is that not ridiculous? Most of the time, it doesn't even get used. Once in a while, the mailman will put mail in it if he comes after our gate is closed but most of the time, he comes onto the property to give us our mail and take outgoing mail.

Sunday, August 3, 2025

Year Seven Of Farm Life

Six years ago today, we had someone come in and mow down all of the waist high weeds.

Our Seventh Year Continues

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Our Farm Journal Year By Year
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Year One Of Life On The Farm

Year Two Of Life On The Farm

Year Three Of Life On The Farm

Year Four Of Life On The Farm

Year Five Of Life On The Farm

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