Meet Lil’ Red! Our neighbor friends got a new truck!

(Friend Neighbors? Fribors… Neighends! Hmmm…. Just calling them neighbors is such a understatement, they are wonderful wonderful friends, too… hmm…. )

Anyway… Julia and Jr. got a great little used truck last week and it’s swell! It’s so nice to have a little truck around that if we ask super sweetly and nicely and all, can help us out now and then! Blue is good at hauling stuff, but Lil’ Red did an awesome job on bale hauling! 14 bales in the back! And we probably could have done a few more but that was all I had the cash for! haha. Blue only had to haul 5 home! She was happy at that.

It’s nice, now that the grass is growing, I don’t need as much hay. Only got 4 bales of hay, and the rest straw. The pony and sheep are mostly eating grass now and will do so through the spring, summer and fall! It’s the nice thing about Shetland sheep and ponies… they thrive on just grass. They are a hardy little breed and do fine with just good grazing. I got a few bales just so that they could have a flake or two to chew on during rainy yucky days and a little for breakfast while they wait for us to let them out. I predict it will last for a couple weeks like that. Even Cody turned his nose to it after a bite or two. He would MUCH rather be out grazing on the lovey green fresh stuff! Don’t say that I blame him!

I’m hoping to get another big straw bale bed in place and filled up. We’ve got a date with four barns that need some serious cleaning out after a winter of deep bedding. Boy, did it work nicely… those buildings were warm and toasty with all that bedding composting down. And I checked, the layers underneath are nice and ready for gardens! It was nice not having to muck out the barns since Fall, but now.. haha… now we pay for the lovely warmth! Oh well! We’ll start with one and keep working until they are all clean and ready for new fresh straw. I’m just going to think about all that lovely stuff working on my garden beds this year!!!

Well, just wanted to say thanks for helping bring a couple loads of hay and straw to the homestead! It make fast and easy work with Lil’ Red!!! Maybe someday we’ll have our own little pickup, but for now, we’re just happy that our fribors have one! I know they are too! Can’t wait for garage sale season! Julia and I will have that lil’ truck piled high like the Clampetts if we hit a few good sales!!! A truck is a very wonderful thing on a homestead!!!