Hi ladies,
Wow, is it Thursday already? Time gets away from me so easily these days.
I'm just about done with my holiday baking obsessions. Thank goodness. And tonight I'm packing it all up for disbursement. We are sending cookies and breads overseas to three soldiers. One is DH's GD's husband who is in Egypt. The other two we sort of adopted through bakinggals.com. They organize monthly shipments to soldiers who get nominated. I've had several recipes I wanted to try so I got to without having a stash of goodies to eat. I was good about putting them in the outside freezer immediately.
Well, except for the cranberry walnut biscotti. I've never made biscotti so it was fun to try. Much better than store bought!
So DH and I kind of jumped off the deep end last week. His mother has upcoming money issues as in not a whole lot and still in good health. We had her cash out some whole life policies so she'd have cash when hers runs out in June. DH has been wracking his brain on ways that he can use that money to make a little more money than she'd get in a CD or money market. DH kept coming up with all these ideas (he's a salesman through and through) and I finally said, "I'm thinking alpaca's". He took that and we ran with it. We have an empty 4 acres and set up for animals. We'd already decided that the horse boys were more than likely staying over at Anne's because she has 35 acres for them to be on plus her arena. We did some research and found two nearby farms. This Saturday, we will pick up four llama females. The two males are being gelded and we'll get them in a month. On Sunday, three gelded Alpaca's arrive. We are getting "R & T's Happy Tails Farm" off the ground. We are going to have fiber animals. We don't expect to live off the farm income but if it can produce some extra cash a year, we'll be happy. And they are less work and expense than horses. I'll go over 3-4 days a week to ride the horse boys. Now I have to write up our business plan and figure out how to create a website.
Wish I could say that I've been doing really healthy things for myself. I will say that I am energized and feel very enthusiastic about building what I want to be my retirement. I haven't been sitting around feeling depressed or doing any comfort eating. I'm still hanging in there at my current weight. Not that I'm happy with that but at least its not going up anymore.
Better get this posted. I'm sneaking it in at work.
to those that are losing and also for those who are able to maintain during this holiday season.
to those of you that are sick.
to all!
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