The weather seems to at last be holding, its supposed to be 90 degrees today, I wore a skirt with high hopes, even if it meant my morning feeding of the goats/chickens/dogs was a bit precarious. We are done with our first round of kiddings. 5 girls, five boys, it seems fair. The next round begins in June/July but I only have two does kidding, and both are first fresheners. Next on the goat agenda is shows, with my first show coming up in less than two weeks, then they come fast and furious thru June. I still have lots of work to do on the doe and buck pens, adding proper gates, finishing feeders, adding mineral feeders, etc.
Our new buck, Banker, its fitting in quite well, I can't wait to use him, but thats on the back burner until the spring kids are all homed. Right now we only have 2 wethers without final destinated set, so I'm not too worried. This is only the second season I have disbudded here, and my husband was kind enough to do the actual burning while I held the kids, last year I only did a few kids. If I can just get tattooing down I'll be in business, I'm not sure which is worse tattooing or disbudding.
I spent the weekend "spring cleaning" and am rather sore, and not quite victorious, but made some respectable headway. I am sore and have ten bins of future goodwill items moving on, half of which went directly to children in the neighborhood.
I'm trying to make our home, home again after dressing it to put on the market, and deciding not to sell, I have a few walls started with their new paint color, as white walls are making me feel a bit like I'm in an assylum.
The garden is started, 8 kinds of tomatos, sunflowers, roses, a strawberry free peach tree, lots of nasturtium, sweet peas and herbs too, a couple strawberry plants, you get the gist.
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Well said.
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