Rural life

[PAROX2010]

Yes, an apartment block makes it hard to get out with animals. But you can enjoy mine! Tell her she can name the last two. They are both females. One is as tall as my knee now. She is pink with large black patches. The other one is smaller, below the knee and is mostly pink with smaller black patches and dots across the lower back and pink ears. They both love the attention. Tell your daughter if she would like to pick one, I will send her a picture of it periodically and give her some updates about it. She can sort of adopt it or both. Maybe I could send the info. through your direct messages here on IAWP so I can gear it to your daughter?

great idea, Joy

I like, I like, I like. Images precious animals.
I will show my daughter's the photos of the little pig. Will be great to have adopted in Manitoba. Also I will show you a map so you know where it is Manitoba.
The animals, though have to take care and pamper them, we provide an extra supply of energy, and I think we connect with Mother Earth .... , well, except ticks, Not good connect too with ticks, hahahal

Big hugs

[bruno2006]

Perhaps you could start some sort of healing refuge for people in withdrawal?

I have been wanting to go live on a small farm in a rural area for a while now and have considered joining a commune. I am also taking with a lady who has a farm in the Ozarks and needs people to work it. I think I would do very well there and am going to make the trip up there soon.

[Joy]

Hi Bruno,

What a good idea. I like that you are going to pursue something like that. Maybe one day when I can get well enough I would consider what you are suggesting. I would never have thought about that on my own. thank you. Right now my partner and I are just starting out. We are renting here. It needs a lot of work to get it ready to be productive. It has sat unused for a couple of years but had been used for cattle. What is crazy is the little barn had broken glass all through it. Light bulbs, window panes and glass medication vials (hundreds of these) all thrown on the ground and in the cracks of the barn. There is glass outside in the pasture and I had been going out picking it up with a shovel and pieces when I find them. Broken glass panes under the manure. Who does this? Even the flood lights high up on poles have been shot out. The glass is found scattered below. So there is lots of work to do still. If we could get our health together we would love to add some fencing and let the pigs go free range. Get some chickens and make it a working farm. There is lots of land and if it were in an area that wasn't so remote it would be neat to allow others to plan a garden of their own on a patch. But where we are there would be no interest. There is so much land around.
To be honest, I have been begging my partner to consider moving. I can't stand the ticks here. I hadn't even been outside today and I have had two on me. At bedtime I found one biting the back of my knee...that just sends me flipping crazy. Plus not feeling well...I could throw in the towel any time. I would miss the horses mostly.
Bruno, I saw a program on t.v. last year. It was a documentary about a number of people living naturally. Some had bought farms and another fellow, who lives in Manitoba, had a piece of land and was cultivating a large garden but doing everything by hand and he lived in a tent. Then took the produce to town.
I wish I could remember more...it was so interesting to watch I would love to see it again. Except we don't have t.v. here., ha,ha.

Where do you live?
Joy

[Barbara]

Joy, what a great start with all of your different critters. And in many ways, you really didn't have to work at it, in part, everyone just showed up.

Thanks for your effort in explaining and sharing the histories and showing photos of many of the gang.

I think all of us here will look forward to hearing updates about the antics and progress of the clan as time goes on.

[Joy]

Hi Barbara,
Thank you for your message. Things have had an interesting way of working out over this last year and am grateful the animals showed up.
I appreciate your encouragement. I hope others will share their stories too. I also think animals can be very therapeutic.

Luc, The dogs are thrilled with the horses...the horses not so much. Ha,ha. I don't trust the horses around the dogs. The horses seem to be very territorial.
I found it funny when we first got Toby and the horses. Both new to us. Toby had lived on a farm before and was bouncing beside me so happy to take out the horse feed every morning and night. Even when it was -37, there was Toby waiting by the door. What I didn't know was that he wanted a job to do. After emptying the feed he would pick up the bucket and carry it back to the gate. It was hilarious until he learned to carry it correctly because he couldn't see over it. It is a 4L pail. At the gate he waited patiently and then ran back to the house with it. Stopping to lick out the molasses stuck to the sides. He was so happy with himself it was unbelieveable. This became his job. Recently, we have changed this and he isn't happy. I want the dogs to stay out of the pasture. So he waits faithfully outside the gate and rarely moves a muscle.
The dogs also love the pigs. They run into the barn and greet them and the pigs gather around nibbling at their collars. They tire of the game and leave.
The horses attacked the pigs when they were let out in the pasture so we have had to put them back in the barn until we feel well enough to put up some more fencing. The pigs run to the horses like a magnet. Sometimes chaos does happen here.

[Luc]

The dogs also love the pigs. They run into the barn and greet them and the pigs gather around nibbling at their collars.

I like it!

[Luc]

Do the horses and dogs get on well together, Joy?

[Sheila]

Ha ha! That’s hilarious that the cat trounced the dog in the next moment. I had been projecting that the cat was flirting with the dog.

Beware of second-guessing and regrets in w/d – these are common neuro-emotions. Now, sometimes we do need to improve on past decisions, but it’s hard to tease out in w/d.

But don't you think that everyone that is brave enough to take on the challenge of addressing the medication w/d issues has been progressive..already seeking to transform? They are ready and open to seeing things in a new light which is maybe how change happens.

Yes, I do. I have quite mystical beliefs about this whole phenomenon. I believe most people taking on w/d are meant to do it for greater reasons than we know. And virtually every single person who goes through w/d has their eyes opened in some way, but some people have their eyes opened in a very big way.

I am a cat lover, but my cats have died of old age, and I am “between cats,” waiting for the cosmic call to come.

OMG – that is so sweet about Toby!

[Joy]

Hi Sheila,

Your view on withdrawal is interesting. "Meant to do it for greater reasons than we know"...hmm, maybe it can be the catalyst of further changes for us. I find it hard to understand the meaning of it for myself right now. I do hope some greater understanding comes out of it, or higher purpose.

When you are ready you will find the purrfect kitty for you.

Now, you made me laugh when you looked at the picture of the cat and dog and saw them smiling at each other..so I am going to post a couple of the next pictures I took at that time. They were sizing each other up.

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[Sheila]

Ha ha, Parox! Joy, maybe you *should* try to connect with the ticks! Use your mind to tell them to go away!