Time to settle in: Well DMAR is partially all in Mansfield, GA. This weekend Tom brings home the rest of the boys from Arizona. This will leave him with one more trip to AZ to pick up all the girls. I can’t wait to have them all home.
I’ve been very busy these past 2 weeks. Plenty of unpacking, cleaning, and setting up new services. By the way the free garbage recycling places for Newton County sucks for me. I have to drive 12 miles just to use them so I am now a paying customer of B & W garbage removal. Not sure why but if you live in the actual small town of Mansfield the garbage truck collects weekly for free. I know I am in the outskirts of Mansfield, but it is still Mansfield. I should receive the same priviledge. Alas I do not. Oh well.
Since we purchased the house as a foreclosure the pastures weren’t kept up with at all. I kid you not when I say the weeds were as tall or taller than me. So scary that I didn’t dare step foot inside for fear of what would crawl up my body. I’m shivering at the thought just now. The first week I moved in I had two of the smaller paddocks mowed down so the five male alpacas I have with me could go outside for most of the day. Now in the second week I have contracted to have the rest of the pastures bush-hogged. The person came today and everything was done except the large two front pastures. What a difference! Now I’m excited to see what the two front pastures will look like once they are bush-hogged. Maybe tomorrow I will find out.
All the maremmas have pretty much accommodated to the surroundings. However, because we only have 3 board horse fencing it is very easy for them to tuck under the boards and get into the pastures. This in inself would be fine for me but if I let all four maremmas out I would have a big fight on my hands. Both males can’t stand each other and both females can’t stand each other, therefore, each breeding pair is kept apart from the other breeding pair. At this time I have to keep one set in the barn for half the day while the other pair get to go out and roam around. It will have to be this way until Tom and I can put up the wire fence on the inside of the 3 board fence. None of them are complaining since whoever is in the barn is living in comfort in front of the fans and out of the heat and humidity.
I’ve got my heals dug in and am ready to make this my ranch and home.
