Elaine | October 4, 2010
I was doing my evening barn chores, with the boys’ help, of course. I had just about gotten everything accomplished before milking and I could hear the boys but didn’t know what they were doing. They were done in the barn but I could still hear them laughing and talking. I peeked around the milk [...]
Elaine | September 24, 2010
Well, I can procrastinate no longer. I seem to be in a blogging rut. I am trying to get better but there is so much to do and it seems the days are shorter than the usual 24 hr. days that used to be plentiful. Lady the goat dog did not work out. See her [...]
Elaine | September 17, 2010
Most people would free range their chickens…right? We prefer to keep our chickens in the goat yard and free range our goats. The goats got out the other day. Quinn was cutting logs in the goat yard and latched the gate from the other side. He didn’t think they would get out by pulling the [...]
Elaine | July 20, 2010
We had Quinn’s birthday party Saturday. We had a really good turnout. I was putting this post off because I put out a plea for pictures. I had my camera out early and the lens fogged over when I came out of the house into the sauna that is Tennessee in July. I set the [...]
Elaine | July 2, 2010
We are keeping a new cat in the barn. She is very sweet. Her name is Amy and we got her from a friend who needed to find a new home for her. I caught her today sunning herself in the barn. Later I found her in a bunch of hay that the chickens had [...]
Elaine | July 1, 2010
Wow! What a wild and crazy month it was. I will recap for you: Samuel went to 4-H camp and then on a mission trip called Fish Camp. All in one week we had Vacation Bible School, my sister-in-law and niece from Dallas visiting, and mid-week my parents came and stole er, took both my [...]
Elaine | June 9, 2010
It has been a wild couple of days. We had chicks born this am. When I went out to the barn tonight to milk I noticed a different mother hen on the ground with a chick. I think it is the chick that is seen here. It is this Momma hen who is on the [...]
Elaine | May 30, 2010
Stitches had her babies this afternoon! Momma and bucklings are doing well. Stitches gave me no sign that she was ready to have those babies this morning. We went off to church and when I came home there they were! I am kind of bummed I wasn’t with her when she labored but I think [...]
Elaine | May 29, 2010
This is my goat Stitches. She was due to kid on the 27th. Today is the 29th! She is in no hurry to have these babies. In fact I think she enjoys the fact at my stress level increases with every hour. See how she is toying with me. She is pretending that I don’t [...]
Elaine | May 13, 2010
We just picked her up today. She is my new Livestock Guardian Dog (LGD). The things we know about her….she is a working dog to protect goats, and she will test fences. She is 7 months old and loves to be on the front porch. What we don’t know about her….she has never been with [...]
