Despite all of my angst around this big, white, fluffy, livestock guardian dog (LGD) of ours (between her escapes, her seemingly endless heat cycle, and the necessity for our newly installed electric fencing), I just have to say that… She is doing so well! She has calmed around the chickens…
In the Quiet that is January, I’ve been allowing myself the space to rest… to do nothing…or very little… while dreaming big and allowing my desires to float up to the top and dance in front of my imagination. In the Quiet that is January, I’ve been brainstorming ways to…
We’ve finally named the girls!!! I know, I know…it took forever! Let me officially introduce you to Lucy and Ethel. Lucy is the younger/smaller blondie, full of enthusiasm and curiosity… Ethel is a bit more calm and subdued but more than happy to go along for the ride when Lucy…
We’ve gone and done it. After years of dreaming and scheming, planning and searching, we’ve finally committed to getting some goats! We spent most of the day yesterday visiting a couple of Nigerian Dwarf Goat farms a couple of hours south from us and decided on a sweet Mama (Sunset…
After several months of getting to visit with and milk four lovely goats as part of our goat share, we received an email last week from the goats owner stating that the goats were going to a new home. Here is the email, in part… After much consideration, I have…
With the exception of a few times after Baby got hurt, milking and feeding the goats over the past several months has been a breeze. Baby cooperates, her sister, mom and kid cooperate and everything goes rather smoothly. When we got to the goats yesterday, however, the were riled up!…
We found out a couple of days ago that Baby, the wonderful goat we milk twice a week, was attacked by a dog that got into their pin last Sunday 🙁 Her owner thinks she will be OK, with just a few scrapes, though she is on antibiotics to ensure…
…unless you have things to do. Brunch with friends…seed shopping…home brew shopping and future home brew fantasies…emergency water rotation and refilling…goat milking…sun spot & snack loving chickens…attention given to long-ago-dried-and-forgotten herbs…soap frame creating…baby blanket crocheting…goat milk soap making (our very first!)…2013 garden planning…Red Chile Chocolate Porter brewing. Thank goodness for…