Coyote Moon Livestock

Whether you have a house to live in or not, some things are still just going to happen. Life goes on.

Although we're technically still not allowed on our property, we are escorted up to care for the livestock. That means we're doing the 160 mile round trip on a daily basis (which is a literal pain in the butt) and improvising a water tote to get water to the cattle. Our opinon - it's our livestock, it's our responsibility. The next step is convincing the powers-that-be that it would be best if we could just stay on our land. Of course I'll have to figure out something to live in, but heck, I'm even willing to just pitch a tent if I have to. Right now just staying grateful for what we can do, and that we still have the land to rebuild on.

The first remedy this asshole could come up with would be a good swine flue outbreak!? Some of us wouldn't be too happy about having to destroy our own hogs. Hunt and export meat. We have managed to extinguish all sorts of other animals without even trying. Take your swine flue and tuck it firmly up your ass.

This is our house. Terrible? Yes. However, it can be rebuilt. Many things including family pictures will have to live in memory. The good news, all our cattle, pigs, goats horses, dogs, cat and alpaca made it, including a two day old litter of piglets. We were unable to evacuate the Dexters AGHs, alpaca and goats. As we could hear and feel the fire coming fast. We opened all the gates and pulled out with the horses and house pets. Two days later we heard we still had animals... on our land. That's when i cried. Now we struggle with how we will get the fences and shelters replaced before winter. We will have calves and piglets the end of October. There is no word from FEMA, and thats ok. We can find something to live in when they let us back in. The critical that we can't replace at the point is tractor with bucket. I think our post hole digger survived. And we need a good flat bed trailer to haul hay. We are not looking for free, but we do need a modest price and a distance we could handle with our old truck. Thats what this fund will be used for as well as fencing and materials to build some shelters. There are a lot of people in need right now. There are a lot of people trying to help. Pray for us all. No one deserves more than any other. See more

Such a small thing......yet so important After quite a few goofs, errors, outright mistakes, and an abundance of "well crap"s, I was able to get our deep well pump wired to the generator and get water flowing. The significance? Not only is this the first step in our rebuild but, ever since we evacuated in the midst of the Slater Butte fire storm there have been volunteers that have driven over 100 miles to bring water here every two days. There is no way to express our gratitude sufficiently, but at least this may make their day a little easier.