Monday, April 14, 2008

New cistern, new Pasture

This is the start of the building of a 12000 gallon water holding tank. It doesn't look that big now but when I take the next picture tomorrow you will think completely different. I have a friend who has a 6000 gallon swimming pool. This is bigger. The pictures below are pictures of my new animal pasture. I didn't even think when I originally bought this place that this land was mine but alas it is mine so I since I had to fence again I made a separate pasture so I can rotate the animals so I don't destroy what I have. The first day I put the kids here for the evening they all had swelled stomachs the next morning. They all were HUGE. I commented to Danny who works here full time for years that my goat named Perro who was pregnant and eating like a horse would gain 500 pounds in one night:) You can see these guys are healthy and looking great. Everyones FAT:) This is only about a little over a quarter of an acre but the ability to put them here for nights for a week helps the other field recover. . Hasta Pronto!

Papas got a new son

This young man was born between Saturday night and Sunday. I knew he was coming because the mama who I call Perro which means dog is one of my favorite goats. She is always healing when I am in the pasture. When I got to the finca on Saturday she got out of the new pasture and the workers building my cistern put her back in. When they told me this I went into the pasture to see her. She was trying to get out while I was there which was very unusual because she thinks she is a dog and she loves me.
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Well I identified these actions as she was nesting. She had orginally fit her big ass body through the barbed wire into the next farm and then came back around to the old pasture where she had spent her whole time so I figured she was trying to nest in advance of giving birth. I took her back to her old pasture and left her there with plenty of food and water. On Sunday a bunch of us went up to Playa Grande to the beach so I asked Herbert to stop off at the farm first so I can check on her. She had this beautiful little boy waiting for me on my arrival and a real sweetheart he is. He is HUGE for a 1 day old or less baby goat. Mama is big and carried very big. I thought she was having at least two. This is going to be a big boy. All his mamas milk for himself and the start was amazing! . Welcome to the farm little guy. . Hasta Pronto!

Saturday night dinner

Saturday night we had dinner for about 8 people in my condo. In attendence were my friend Howard from NYC, my friend Herbert also from NYC, My friend Herman also from NYC, Boyd and Lannie from the outback of Canada, Maria and her brother Kiko and of course myself. There were supposed to be other people but they had other plans and couldn't make my last minute dinner. Maria made her famous San Cocho which in fact is actually a famous meal:) Herman made some sort of Vietnamese Spring Rolls and of course we had a ton of wine and port at the end. Everyone said they had a great meal which I certainly did and went home with full bellies. I have to thank Herman for the photos because the dope that I am didn't take any myself. Hasta Pronto!

Motorcycle ride LAST Sunday

Last Sunday a bunch of people bailed out of the motorcycle ride and I took this day which ended at noon with other people to take a trip that is longer than the others would have agreed to take. So after the last person finished at noon I headed out toward Luperon after a stop in Costambar. When I got to Luperon I hung a left along the cost on a road that was impassable the last time I was out there in my car and continued towards Nuevo Isabella where Columbus supposedly first stepped forth in the DR and the New World.
This is the beach there which I think had a view of Punta Rusia and I was going to head there but missed my turn. Punta Rusia is a real out of the way town way off the beaten track. There are NO titles to the land and only people trying to sell there are the cheap hustlers who are also foreigners. They are trying to sell properties that you may not ever own. Beautiful place and the prices are cheap but if you see a South African White woman trying to hustle you stay FAR away. This is the view from the beach to what I think is Punta Rucia on the other side of the bay. This is a picture of a river I was looking to cross and finally did about ten miles down the road. This country is so beautiful there is beauty everywhere you look and it is a classic picture 99% of the time. Hasta Pronto!