Ready to Goat

puppies

Happy Spring

The forsithia were forced--there is nothing springlike about what's happening outside. There are still patches of snow and no redwing blackbirds to be seen or wood frogs to be heard.

Here's to all of us finding balance as the Earth finds hers.

I Kid You Not!

One of these little doelings and her mama are going to be ours! I am hoping to have everything all set for them her in a couple of weeks. Here are my kids with the 4 day old goat kids. Aren't they cute!

kidding around

Beulah (one of our soon to be goats) had quads tonight. I just missed the birth but arrived soon afterwards. The black babies are all girls, the white one is a boy. They are adorable. It was a miracle. They are so tiny, and they were wobbling around and bleating (baahing?) and nursing. Very, very cool.

another day, another gnome

I knit the second gnome on smaller needles and with doubled yarn to keep the stuffing from showing thru. Sophie made him a little backpack

spring is sprouting

We're forcing forsythia. (I don't know why I can't rotate the pictures again!)



Sophie hung up this bag of fleece and yarn for the nesting birds yesterday morning . . .

. . . and by yesterday afternoon the chickadees had put some of the green fleece in the nesting box outside our front door. (Sorry it doesn't show up that well in the picture.)

My friend Sandy has a son whose birthday is May 15th, the same as Rebecca's. Sandy just bought a sheep who is due to lamb on . . . May 15th. If she has a set of boy/girl twins, their names will be Rebecca and Hank!

The sap is freezing in the buckets over night and dripping like crazy by noon. We're getting over 5 gallons a day from our 7 taps.

And, ok, this isn't strictly a sign of spring, but Agway delivered the panels for our goats today!