hello everyone! I just got home a few minutes ago from an emergency TN to TX transport - a spousal abuse situation required that a young mother with four children move to TX to be under the protection of relatives - 30 milk sheep and goats, about 40 egg laying ducks, some guinea fowl, a Pyrenees dog, and lots of livestock pans/supplies etc. were delivered to their new home at sunset yesterday - donations from a whole bunch of you paid for the U-Haul box truck and driver to get a lot of the family necessities to TX, a U-Haul trailer attached to the family SUV for critical necessities, gas for both of these plus gas for my tow vehicle - I donated my equipment and time for the transport - the mother and kids were delayed in TN by some last minute legal paperwork but hopefully they are on the road westbound by now
A BIG THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO DONATED TO THE CAUSE AND TO THOSE WHO GAVE MORAL SUPPORT TO THIS EFFORT! - IT WAS WORTH THE EFFORT! SEP - there is a possibility that I will need to make an unplanned cross country trip to move some animals that have time constraints on their transports - if so the route would be: Austin TX to SC empty South Carolina to Sioux Falls, South Dakota SD to OR empty OR to CO to Del Rio TX Del Rio to Austin TX empty if you have anything that could be moved along that general route on short notice please get back to me at rkee...@realtime.net ASAP! OCT/NOV - it appears that the scheduled trip will begin with a clockwise loop of the west coast starting from TX - then a cross country run from OR/WA to New England along the northern route followed by a clockwise loop of the east coast ending in TX - if you have animals needing to move along that general route including a possible second west coast loop get back to me at rkee...@realtime.net ASAP! before I left for the TN trip I had had 11 1/2 inches of rain in 10 days at my central TX location - I have not checked the gauge since I got home - so part of the central TX drought zone did get a lot of rain but it came way to fast - that is good for the very depleted highland lakes of central TX but not so good for the farmers and ranchers who needed a soaking rain - hopefully a lot of water made it into the drinking water aquifers - nearly every well in my neighborhood has been pulled this summer in order to drop the pumps deeper into the wells - I am running my well at 480 feet with a timer to restrict pumping - I pump 30 seconds every 10 minutes to feed 1-2 gallon into my surface tank - before the rains I could pump my well dry in less than a minute! -- questions? Ron and Corgi co-pilots Tina and Jeremy (AKC) operating from a base near Austin TX private email at rkee...@realtime.net web site at http://TravelWithRonK.com group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TravelWithRonK TravelWithRonK is dedicated to coast to coast transport of small quantities of small livestock with nearly 3000 animals transported in 10 years of service _______________________________________________ This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info
