12-04-2014, 10:40 PM
Hi Everyone! Haven't been here in a while, just dropping in to say hi and how are you all? I'm moving to Nevada in two months, about 5 hours from San Francisco, close to the Sierra Nevada. I'll be coming to SF in one or two week chunks to work (there's no work where I'm moving to), while a neighbor there feeds the goats and horse (yes, I bought the goats a horse! - Leasing a place for a year (hopefully more!) on 40 acres of sagebrush near Topaz Lake, NV. Come visit! - I just couldn't handle living in the city anymore, I hate it, and Nevada is much closer than Mongolia, so here I go. I hope it goes well, I'll be off-grid with solar, a well, and firewood for heat - I need to find a cheap 4WD truck. And I may have to buy coats for the goats since I'll be moving them in late February and they're used to the mild SF climate, although I really don't want to spend the money. Do you think they'd be ok without the coats? Or is it too abrupt of a climate change for them? I kind of figured they wouldn't have a thick enough undercoat from living in SF... Also going to try and build a passive solar water trough for the horse and goats since I'll be at 5,200 feet elevation and it gets so cold there...
*Saltlick* Rancho Topaz
near Topaz Lake, Nevada
near Topaz Lake, Nevada