Life goes on...

My goat herd is looking like an actual herd. We are up to 11.
4 bucks 6 does and 1 whether.
Lots of breeding should be happening this fall.
That should take those little buggers a couple seconds each.

Square foot gardening again this year; yippee

Mission Trip in two weeks -

Alli's going to be two in a couple weeks ... sigh   She is so precious.

Elections around the corner ... sigh ... not impressed

Living for Him !!

Life goes on !!

Sad Week :(

We had major storms come through here this week. Many people down in Alabama lost their lives due to tornado's. We lost our horse Jaxx :( both our horses were struck by lightning. Jaxx was killed instantly and Gabriella is still hanging in there. She is blind in one eye, we don't think she can hear out of one ear, and has partial paralysis in her lip. It is all so very sad.

The goats came through fine - other than their stalls flooding.

We will continue praying for Gabby and hope she recovers.

RIP JAXX :(

Alli and I in the kitchen.

Boy I wish I had taken a picture of the mess created by letting Alli help me
make the pancakes this morning. She loved it :) It was worth the gigantic mess.
We made 'clean and healthy' banana blueberry pancakes ~ they were DE-lish.
Topped with a little Agava Nectar and we have a yummy little breakfast.

The baby kids are settling in GREAT. They are not getting kicked around like
they were at first. I think keeping the seperate from the does early on, and not
forcing them on each other really helped.  Now they roam like part of the herd.
I will be having to seperate them once they become 'bucky'.
Miss Kiddy is due in about 3 weeks. Total guess !! We shall see.

Garden plot is tilled now, and I am just about ready to start planting. Yes, I'm
late but ... Well life called ...

Happy Good Friday all ~ I am so unworthy of His sacrafice, yet so THANKFUL
for it as well.

BOGOGO FREE !!!

I know you've heard of Buy One Get One Free - But I bought one goat and got a goat free :)
Now that is a BOGO :)

See the handsome boys below:

Praise God - Marshal's better

We praise Him in the good times - and we praise Him in the bad.

I prayed for a goat ... I did ... and I believe that's OK. I have a loving Father that cares about what hurts me, and seeing my goat suffer, hurt.

Marshal is better...Today
It's really a daily battle for a while.

Marshal is a total stud :) He mounted Miss Kiddy for MAYBE 2 seconds and SHE'S PREGNANT.
Woohoo......

Pictures to come shortly of our new little buckling.

Marshal's sick :(

You have heard the warnings before about boy goats getting urinary calcium stones - Well Marshal has some serious blockages.

Poor thing is in so much pain. Knowing him and his habits may have saved his life. We got him to the vet pretty quick.

We have taken him to the vets twice in two days, they say it's up to him now :(

This weekend has been expensive, but I am praying Marshal pulls through.

SPRING has SPRUNG :)

Lots of exciting happenings around the farm!!

Bought some plants today ~ Woohooo
Getting so excited about getting my hands dirty :) - Probably less excited in July but hey ...

Planted my Parsley, Lavender, and some potatoes today ... YAY
I have SOO much more to plant ... but first I need to ask my sweet neighbors to borrow
their tractor. I have WONDERFUL compost I can't wait to add to my gardens.

Second exciting thing... I think I found a new buck :) ALL the breeding I've been looking for.
Really wish he would have been polled, but ... He's beautiful.

Isn't he purdy...
With Spring around the corner, lots of work to get done... Come on over and give me a hand :)