Got our plane tickets to Spain! Al-Andalus and Madrid are really happening! Put in your requests now for exotic goods! Also pet sitter wanted in KC - 2 dods, 2 cats, loom, tablet weaving, big shed for woodworking minus power, centrally located in Calontir- can pay.

Finished up the bathroom floor tile yesterday. Came out looking pretty good.

Everyone needs a little kitten love. This is our new supposed to be barn cat "Abomination". She was dropped off on the road near us and has become part of the menagerie. :)

Hi everybody, welcome to our community. I go by Bobby and here is my story... In 2021 I came to the realization that even though I had a great job and mostly enjoyed my work that If I continued down the path of working every day in front of a computer for 8 to 10 hours that by the time I got to the point "They" say I needed to be financially so I could retire I was going to be mostly dead. I don't mean actually dying, but I knew if I kept on the path I was on for another 10 years I would be to worn out to actually enjoy anything. So I came home and told Maj (she is my wife of 36 yrs) that I wanted to be a farmer. So we started looking for land to build a farm on. Our goal was to find something bigger than 50 acres with water and electric on it so we had enough room for our friends to come retire with us if they wanted to. So far Jeanne Marie is the only one to join us full time but a number of our friends have stopped by for a week or so to help with whatever building project we had going on when they were here. Fast forward to June of 2022 and the work began on Fukit Farms (later shortened to FKT farms because apparently Fukit offends people) our 103 acre farm in SE Missouri. Since then we have remodeled one house and our rebuilding another, brought in 10 alpacas, 19 or so goats, 4 dogs, 4 cats, raised and butchered 4 pigs, 100 chickens and 1 cow. We have a store front and semi regularly attend craft shows around the area where we sell hand woven scarfs, cowls, rugs and hats from our Alpacas all created here by our Artist in Residence Jeanne Marie. I find that I really like to build more than raising animals and have developed a lot of skills/experience in the area of DIY fix everything that could possibly be broke on a farm.

Holly great to see you checking out our group. Were just getting started so still moving over our videos and stuff from the last two years. Mostly I've been putting information into the classroom and setting up the things we have like remodeling a house as an example class to build upon with more details, as well as collecting all of our pictures and videos of the animals as they have grown. You are officially our first non family member to join the group.