Rain

    After Caris died, mom wanted to get a replacment as soon as possible, so that her place wouldn't be left empty. We went to a friend, not thinking they would have any babies so late in the year, but they did! We thought she was Alpine, but she's... Alpine, Lamancha, Nubian, and maybe something else, she has saanen ears. She is soooo cute!  She is marked just like an Alpine, with the pretty lil black sideburns! She is a gorgeous cream/red roan like color. She's skittish, because the only time she has ever been handled was when we came to look at her. She's already settling down, not liking to be caught, but becoming a love bug after she is! Yes, I'm in love!

   She is going to sleep in the milk barn for a few nights, until she is adopted by her new mama. Last night she got to sleep with a lamb her size. Before, it had only come into the milk barn to get it's goat. It bounded all around the barn, jumping up on the stands, crying for her goat. Rain just watched, wondering what was wrong with it. I am going to go see her in a few minutes, to see how well she did.

RIP

Carris fell into the horse tank last night. She didn't make it. Rest in Peace, Carris.

Goats, goats, and more goats...

Got back from the goat show. It was awesome! There were some AMAZING goats there! I had a hayday scetching goats. Soo fun! I could tell you about all the beautiful goats, but it would take a whole book to write about! I get to go tomorrow too!

I've been watching a bunch of gaot videos online, and saw a really awesome one. I'm not into meat goats, but there was an anglo-nubian (Whatever that is)  That's fatter than any boer I've ever seen. Well, it's not really fat, actually. It's MUSCLE. You can just see em' rippling as he walks! He was a REAL looker! (This doesn't mean I want meat goats now, honestly! (;  )    But still, he was pretty!

(Ok, I'm done ranting about goats now.)

Edited to add. Wait, no I'm not. I just realized that I never told anyone about showing Andy last year. (Please don't think of this as bragging, I'm not trying to, and it will explain my confidence in her)

I got her last year, in March. She had hardly ever been touched by anyone, and was more skittish than a wild rabbit. It was a wrestle to catch her, and a fight to force the bottle into her mouth. After about two weeks, I could get about halfway across the fairly small shed to her before she spooked. Be two months, instead of me having to smack her on the head to get her to take her bottle (Figure of speach, I never actually hit her), she was smacking me into subbmision!

I bonded with her a lot. We became great friends, and she would get to come out and follow me around. She became my pride and joy. Everyone commented on how pretty and sweet she was. I worked with her, training her for the show ring. It didn't take long, and soon she walked like a dream. She would set herself up, too. She would line her legs up perfectly, and stood amazingly still as long as I could.

We got to the fair, and she was an angel all week. She was quiet, and the one time she escaped was when the gate was left unlatched, and everyone got out. She was caught quickly and easily, she didn't run when I came for her. I took her out of her pen to prepare to show about two shows before our turn.  It turns out that the judge was long winded, so it ended up being three hours before our turn. Andy was tired. She was very content to just stand and try to get some sleep. Yes, she did fall asleep in the ring. We had to trade goats for a few minutes, and she didn't give him any trouble either. I got third purple in showmanship with her. I was so proud of her! In showmanship, it isn't just on how well the human shows, it's also about how well the human and goat work together, and how well behaved the goat is. She went home, with her ribbon proudly displayed, and me very happy with my amazing goat. If I have what may seem like to much confidence her, this is why.

Two Options

There are two options for someone going to watch a goat show.



-Not give the dozens of pens a second glance. You've seen goats before.

OR

-Nearly kill yourself trying to pet them all at least once, sketch as many as possible, and still see a few shows.

I think I'll go with the second one! (;

Hairy Dairy Tomorrow!

Yay! Hairy Dairy tommorrow! I don't get to show in it, but I can't wait to see all the goats! Soooo wish that I could show Neal, that beautiful red moonspotted nubian buckling! *swoon*  

Started Tommy on collar training today. He didn't like it very much, but we're going to work on it. Now it's time to start working on setting up my lambs. Rugby is maturing nicely, but still isn't friendly. Stella is a a big happy lamb!

Pleeeaaasssseeee?????

Went to get rabbit feed today. Guess what? They had Rhode Island Reds...AND...Barred Rocks...AND...Guinea Keets!!!  *Swoons*   I want...    BUT we can't get any until we have room for them and  Ducks, Geese, LowLine Cows, Goats, Sheep, Pigs, Horses, Alpacas, Laamas, Donkeys...

Hi, my name is Connie and I have a problem.

Millers, Beetles, and Ticks, Oh My!

I know I haven't posted for a while, we are staying at the other place for a bit, and don't have internet.

I's much wetter here than there. There are about 20 varieties of weeds, and approximately 3 million ticks. Those things are NASTY! We went for a walk in the woods, dad wore dark cothes. We cam out, and mom noticed a red spot on him. So we pull off tick after tick, and the grand total is probably over 40! Another thing that this wet weather produces is HUGE beetles. Like two-inch-long-beetles. We captures one. I named it,    Big Burly Biker Beetle Bob! 

Along insect lines, we also have a million pet millers residing in the garage! If you want  to go in there after dark, you want to make sure you turn the garage light on before you really open the door. If you don't, there wil be a giant cloud of light-crazed millers eager to get at the kitchen light!

Tomatoe Sprouts!

Since that most of the plants have sprouted, now I can tell you what they are.      Let's see, I planted cherry tomatoes, Garden Huckleberry, Cosmos, and Chamomile! I was really happy when a second tomatoe sprouted, then I under the paper to show what kind of plant it was, and there were three little tomatoe sprouts! So there are now four little tomatoe sprouts!

Ack! Appendixitis!

Wow, you never know what's going to happen, do you? Two days ago, mom woke me up, saying to get up, hurry and pack because dad was in the emergency room.  We got there right before he went into surgery for appendixitis. (It was a four hour drive due to temorary living arrengments)  The surgery went well and quickly. (Although it was the longest 45 minutes of my life!) Now he is home, and doing well!

Bad Dog!

I am mad at my dog. I wanted to sleep as late as possible, and 6:45, lick, lick, lick, slurp, licka, slurpa, lick, lick, slurp! (Repeat 20 times) I thought that he was FINNALY asking to go outside instead of just marking everything in sight, so I took him out, turns out, mom had taken Sarah to bed with her because she was cold. So now I'm awake, and very very mad at a jealous little dog for waking me up! Well, I guess it's all right, because I can go work my lambs earlier today.

Adventures of Herry the Duck

Well, I saw something online and wanted to try it, so here it is... The Adventures Of  Herry The Duck!
I know the name was not very creative, but he's stuck with it until I come up with a better one!

Herry the Duck got to go outside and have a great adventure, and, to say the least, he was hyperactive!


He wanted to explore the garden, and gave new meaning to "found under a cabbage leaf!

 Then he decided that he wanted to help, but since he couldn't push the wheelbarrow, he took a ride instead.

 Then he checked the mail.

 He also wanted to "help" mow the lawn.

 I turned my back for one second, and look what  happened!

 Then, he wanted to meet the rabbits...

 Then we tried to play frisbee, but, well, you can see.

 Last of all, he wanted to ride the motercycle.

Well, Those are all of the adventures of Herry The Duck!

Hot Weather and Gourmet Biscuits

Wow! It's hot here! I was going to work my lambs today, but I might just work them later tonight and maybe stay the night (maybe maybe maybe).

Oh, and you're wondering about those gourmet biscuits I tried to make? Well, they definetily weren't edible! I went to all the trouble of rolling them out and making them into nice circles and squares, opened the oven to pull them out, what I saw was a large, mushy, bubbly, boiling, mass of yellow soup! Hoped it might be all right, just not to pretty. Well, you touch it, and it crunches under your finger, like snow that sat overnight and got a really light frost. So, the gourmet biscuits got scratched. Sigh, so much for that!

Cooking, Animal Crackers, and Angry Birds

Made a pie yesterday, it was apple and pretty good! Now I am making biscuits! They are taking longer than I thought, because I didn't notice two things, that the butter needs to be thawed, and that it need to be chilled, too. So maybe sometime today they will be ready.

Gave Andy animal crackers, that is all she will be interested in with me now. :) 

I got my butt kicked by a chicken today! :P Well, this hen had the only two chicks they were, the cats had eaten the slow, easy to catch ones. (You can imagine the "skills" of these two chicks) This hen was very protective, but we (me and my friend) wanted to catch one. Well, this hen wasn't two happy about it, so we finnaly got the chicks in a pen where the hen couldn't get, and then the chase began. We finnally caught one. My friend put it back, because I'd taken the first two angry-hen-beatings. Ahh the trouble we go through to hold pure cuteness for 20 seconds!