THOUGHTS ON LAND AND (TOO MUCH?) HELP

Dreaming what you could do with more land is something I think most homesteaders do.  Then you wonder, is more land a good thing or not?  The more you have the more work you will have.   And if you're limited on help you could become overwhelmed with the work.  So you see, it could be a double-edged sword. Luckily, daughter and son-in-law have recently purchased a ten acre homestead.  Although son-in-law is limited on what he can do, they do have four children who like to help with the animals.

As I said in my last post they are willing to take the animals over there and we are moving some over now.  We are trying not to stress the animals so we are really taking our time.  Having said that, daughter thought it would be nice to add pigs to the mix.  So we now have five.  Two are approximately a hundred pounds and three are piglets.  They are old enough to be taken away from mama but still small.  So last week was all about setting up a pen for them.

If adding the pigs wasn't enough, daughter and I had a couple of minutes to ourselves (not always a good thing) and decided to order a surprise package.  So what does that consist of?  I don't know.  We will receive forty to fifty birds.  It could have chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese, quail, peafowl...  We just don't know what we're getting.  Everyone should have surprise in their lives, right? 

After we get all of the livestock settled our next project will be building a smokehouse.  If you're going to have pigs, there's gotta be a little bacon in your future.  So we're looking at plans now.  If left to our own devices daughter and I could and would build a good solid smokehouse.  But we know we will have a little help from hubby and son-in-law.  If not anything else, advice.  I know it's the age old debate but...  How do their minds work?  We will have a plan and they will come to on us.  Something we thought should only take an hour or two somehow turns into a day long project.  Don't get me wrong.  We love they are taking interest in what we're doing and want to help.  But sometimes it's like, who asked for help?  I know that sounds a little mean and it's not meant to, it's just we'll call if we need you.  Having said all that, come on guys we know you love us and we love you.  So thanks for all you do and all you put up with. 

As always have a safe and blessed day and be careful.

Some of you may have read the unedited version of this post.  Sometimes it's not only good to have another set of eyes on your work but also on which version you are posting.