Day 2

Right now we are in Mississippi. We have been taking turns driving since we left Fl yesterday except for about 2 hours where we stopped and ate. It has been slow going with the goats but they seem to be doing good. It looked like it was going to rain so we stopped at Lowe's and got a tarp to go over the top of their cages. We put lots of hay in the bottom and wood around the sides to keep most of the air off of them. Now with the tarp it seems to be working out good.

They settled down after about 10 minutes of being on the road, but at the first check on them yesterday I noticed Mark's eyes do not have the normal black square in the middle. They are not big and round, like how our eyes dilate to take in more light. So we checked out the other goats and their eyes are the same way. So that is something I plan to look up later.

It rained pretty good last night while still in Fl, but after it stopped we got out to look at the goats and they were dry and good.

Now to try do some work.

The date

Well we have set a date to leave Florida. We will be leaving on the 26th of this month and finally completely heading to Arizona to start out new life out there. I can not wait. I miss our girls so much!

Our trailer will be leaving that weekend and we will be pulling our bass boat and will have our 4 goats with us.

We plan on stopping a few places here and there and in between.

Wish us luck!

Thinking

Well we are still in Florida, but hopefully we will be leaving soon. We are thinking we might be able to get out of here around the middle of the week during Sept 4th-10th. It would be nice as we are missing our girls and ready to start on our new life.

I have been reading a bit here and there between moving boxes and stuff and working. We know that when we get out there and start working on our new home in Az we want to do it as green as possible. We know that we will not get to do everything right away as some ways of going green does cost green but what we can make happen in the beginning will happen and the other stuff will be put on a list to be work on each year.

I have also been thinking about my garden and how I want it. We talked to a few people at Home Depot and they said it would be cooling off soon. So I made the decision to plan the garden while we are working on the house and then start actually planting next spring. So doing a search on google it says that spring normally starts around early March like everywhere else in the USA but I have found some people that say it can start in February. So we will have to see how it goes and watch the weather so I know when to start my seeds indoors.

I know I would also like to have a solar oven and a clay oven so that is also things I am reading about. We will also be putting in a wind turbine and we already have the stuff to set to toilets up on low flow. I also believe we will be setting up a gray water system.

First thing first...getting out there....

My mom

Tonight as we were moving more boxes into the trailer I got a phone call from my mom. My mom who lives 3 states away, 400 miles away, 7 hours away, and on top of all that lives alone. So my mom calls all upset. Someone has broken into her house. She came home and the front door was open.

After calling my bff (who lives near her) and having my hubby call my aunt and uncle ( who live about 20 minutes away) she calmed down. So the cops show up along with every once else and go over the house to see whats what. While I pace back and forth 400 miles away.

The whole time that I am wondering what is going on I am thinking here I am packing up to move even further away.

Can I really do this? Can I really move even further from my mom and my bff?

Guess it might be a little too late to ask that question now.