Let Me Help Dig! – Wordless Wednesday
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Befuddled and Bemused – (Almost) Silent Sunday
This is not what I meant when I invited you for dinner…
Animal Inspiration – One-Liner Wednesday
(watches little goats do major gymnastics to get out of the yard when they really shouldn’t be able to)
…I wonder if the people who invented parkour were really just trying to see if they could pull off a goat’s moves.
Never Ending – One-Liner Wednesday
I have learned that I have much to learn, master. –from To Light A Candle by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory
This is a quote from a book that I read way back in high school and I’ve been thinking about it lately due to all the things that have happened on the farm lately.
All but one of our does have kidded and because we typically don’t have problems with our does we weren’t prepared with the last doe to kid (our black Nubian, Ebony) came down with milk fever. I can never remember how to pronounce or spell the technical name of the illness). It means that no one can use her milk and we had to send the 2 remaining of her 3 kids over to a friend’s house to be adopted by one of their nanny goats that foster other does’ kids. They will be fine and we’ll get them back in 8 weeks when they can eat hay.
But we weren’t fast enough to react and lost the second doeling that Ebony had.
We thought we were prepared for things with our goats, thought that we had learned a great deal. And we have, but we aren’t done learning just yet and I doubt that we ever will be.
Either way, make sure to check out the original One-Liner Wednesday.
One Little Goatling – Wordless Wednesday
image: Princess and daughter; from martha0stout’s phone
Belated Birthday Wishes
image: Annie’s kids; from martha0stout’s phone
Meant to get this up on Sunday but life happened. Here are our 2 newest members of the farm.
Love In A Scary World – Thankful Thursday
I finally found (was told) where my nephew’s laptop is. (Mine is still in need of repairs in order to run.) I was checking the news like I do to see what was up in the world and things are not looking good according to the articles up.
I woke up extra early today as well and have had a long and grueling day of running about and doing some much needed work on the farm while others were at work and school.
Mostly because one of our goats had (sort of) surprise babies in the wee hours of the morning and I needed to get out there and assist. Annie is the proud mother (for the third time) of a beautiful set of twins, one boy and one girl. I will post pictures of them as soon as I can figure out how on my nephew’s laptop because it’s been giving me issues with it.
For now, though the day has been long and the news makes me cringe, I am thankful that there are still moments of beauty like seeing a loving mother carefully watch over her sleeping newborns.
Check out the original Thankful Thursday.
Peeled To See Me – Thankful Thursday
Today I am grateful for how easily distracted the goats are with orange peels when I’m trying to feed the pigs, because the goats will steal all the pigs’ feed if I let them. Also, the goats are the only ones who like orange peels out of all the animals. Even the chickens ignore them.
Check out the original Thankful Thursday.
Meet the Herd – Silent Sunday
image: Dolly and kids and Belle, from martha0stout
Hilarity – Random Moment
Was re-reading a book for the first time in a couple of years and cracked up over the first half of the following sentence:
Before this whole goat rope started…
The last time I read this story was before we had goats and I can guarantee that trying to lead goats on a rope is pointless and hilarious if you aren’t the one holding the rope.
Breathing In 