Dealing with Discouragment

   Farming often comes with a lot of discouragement and in the last month or so we've had several doses of it. The sheep have decided to not stay in any fence and were the reason I got a call at 1:30 in the morning to get them out of the road. So, they are now grounded and have to stay in a small barnyard for a month or two until I'm ready to try grazing them again. This means I'm feeding them round bales which cuts into our winter supply. We just had a two-week-old calf die on us from an old brood cow that had the same thing happen to her calf last year. She is a good old cow but there must be something wrong with her milk, so we'll need to cull her from the herd now, which is sad. The farm side-by-side has been broken down for several weeks and my attempts to fix it have not worked. Also, we are trying to build a pole barn at our house for the sheep but are being held up by the fact that we live in a flood zone plus we need a variance since it'll be within 75 feet from the road. We were hoping to start building this week but now it'll be months of delay and a lot of unexpected costs to try to comply with code. There's been other discouraging and embarrassing things too, but you get the picture. 
    I say all that to let you know that not everything on a farm is bliss. I try to post nice, beautiful pictures to highlight the best parts of farming, but many times things can suck. That's life.