End of an Era.

Three Years ago This project of mine began as a foray into the wilderness. It started as an idea, a crooked idea, with many shenanigans and under table talk about how to milk the project for its money.

Crooks are all the same. They talk too much. Talk is not cheap its free.

We have suffered a lot of pain to get where we are. My poor workers were almost all spent. Some could not sleep at night, and watched the sun rise to begin yet another day of back breaking intensive work. Some of them went gaga. Some just got fed up and left. As for me, I was always the same. I demand all or else, or else this roof will fall down and I will be buried under it.

Next years plans have already advanced. Its milk in 2014 not meat anymore.

With the end of thats, also sees an end of the livestock kept for breeding purposes. These animals were part of the original herd. Animals come and go, but the herd stayed, now this herd has gone for good. The Big Red Bull has already gone, to the slaughter in 2012. It was replaced, with the brown spotted bull in the last row of pictures. Spotty is huge, but its still a young~ish bull. That herd now belongs to somebody else now, having shipped out yesterday to its new owners.

Also gone are the customers for the meat business, with milk, the customers will be different, willing to pay upfront, and the sales will be daily not once a year. In 2014, there will be no peak season, but rather the onus is on how much preparation you've made and what you can sustain.

Still, I get the vapours just thinking of some of these wastes of space. It goes something like this:

In the meat business, the people I met always fell into one of 3 categories.

~Good.
~Bad.
~Ugly.

In fact almost 95% of all the people I met fell in the last 2 categories, but for those who are in the top 5%, their input and contributions are priceless. They are few are far between, they come to you not looking for something, but ask if there is something that you need. They have laid a path for you to walk on, and are there in the beginning, and also at the end. These people, money cannot buy, no matter what the price.

These people will be around in 2014, to help as they always have.

The last words about this are simply that time moves on and things have to change. Things are now changing, hopefully for the better of course.