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Sorry I haven't posted any updates for a while.  The reason being...there hasn't really been much to update.  I can't believe it has already been almost 7 months since our lives got turned upside down by the flood.  We are currently still staying at a temporary home.  We however, are in the process of getting another piece of property to rebuild our home and farm on.  After what we have gone through in May we just can't go back to our old property to live again.  It was just too traumatizing.  And talking with my husband the other day, I came to find out the flood really affected him more than I thought it did.  I guess I can kind of understand how much stress and pressure he was under that day when he had to worry about saving the animals and at the same time, saving his family.  I tried to help him as much as I could that day, but there was only so much this petite little at-the-time pregnant Asian woman can do.  I keep telling people, if someone could guarantee me that this place won't flood again in the next 20 years I would totally move back there in a heart beat.  I think of all the good memories we had created on this special piece of property every time we go back there to visit or do things.  I'm sorry it seems like I've all of a sudden turned this blog into a place where I share my personal feelings.  I promise once we get our farm going again I will be sharing our farming adventures instead.

So last week, our bull Dexter had escaped from the pasture 3 times!!!  So annoying!  Hubby was going out to the property a couple times trying to fix the fence lines and putting in extra strains of barbed wires, but Dexter still managed to get out. We were scratching our heads trying to figure out how he was getting out or where?  So one time when hubby was out there working on the property, Dexter escaped right in front of him, so hubby witnessed how Dexter was escaping.  So Dexter used his horns to lift the barbed wires up then he put his head and front legs through and then slip the rest of his body through. He's a pretty smart bull after all.

After seeing how Dexter escaped out of the pasture
we went to Lowe's and bought some of these fence stays.
They go horizontally down the fence line and keep
the barbed wire in place so Dexter couldn't push
the barbed wires up and put his head or body through.
They were only $6 for 12 of them.
It was a cheap fix but it sure fixed the problem...for now.
Dexter hasn't escaped once since we put those
fence stays there.

All cattle staying in the pasture.  Look how big
Jelly is getting!

This is our house now, it still is sitting there and looking the same
as it was 7 months ago after it got flooded.

This is what I miss about our property.  It's
so beautiful!

This is such a beautiful property.  We do miss it a lot!