More challenges

The summer continues to be challenging. Lost some more lambs, this time to coyotes. Have a donkey and two horses- very effective guardians due to their size and dislike of canines, plus the kids love them.
Was hoping to pour concrete in September, getting anything done is cheap right now since everybody needs work- but I can't get a plan from Frank Kipe, who must have bigger to fish to fry. I really want him to do it since he's the only one I know who works on dairies this scale. May just take what I have to someone local, although I don't know who. I could come up with most of it myself, and just go abck and forth with the designer until his picture looked like the one in my head. Maybe Frank'll get caught up here soon enough,.
Am trying to get about half a mile of fence up so I can do a better job of controlling grazing. Thought I had it done, but it's not energized. I suspect I need a proper ground rod for the solar fence box, so I'll try to get to that this weekend. I have all the wire run, but I reused some old wire so I might have to rerun it if it still won't carry a charge after I ground it properly and check all the connections.
The upshot of which is, the ewes are stuck in a field without enough to eat and the slaughter lambs are stuck in a field with predator pressure. Ugh.
On the bright side, I have come up with an idea for cheap portable shelters for the ram and lamb pens and for mineral feeders in all the fields. Cattle panels arced in half, fastened down with bent metal rod and covered with a tarp. Should also work for the kids' rabbits they've been bugging me to get. We have an agreemement: we'll eat all the boys and not eat the girls. I just wish I could find a way to get them processed for retail sale. Long story. Involves the government.
I still need to get the gravity wagons sold, use the money to rebuild the running gears and put panels on them so I can use them as hay feeders. Also still need to get the old truck cleaned up and sold- need to do that by the end of AUgust when I'm scheduled to go to Bruce, Wisconsin and pick up my new ram from Larry Meiesegier at River Ridge Stock Farm.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Or as Scarlett O'Hara said, I'll worry about that tomorrow.