Another Random Goat added to the adventures!

  From the title, I'm sure you know what happened. We couldn't control our addiction, and we're picking her up in two weeks. She's Alpine, LaMancha (Notice a trait with all our goats?) Toggenburg, and probably a lil' bit of everything. She isn't named yet, although I'm thinking Cinnamon Roll, or something along those lines. She's not Oberhasli red, or dull chocolate brown, Kind of a roan of the two.
 
   In other news, my lambs sold, they're being picked up tomorrow.

Ribbons and Dogs...

Back from the fair with some good ribbons! With lambs: Purple in showmanship, red in non-market (There were so many lambs that didn't make wieght they made a class for them) With goats: purple, bronze medal in showmanship, and purple in market

We got our farm dog! We don't have our farm yet, but we've got the dog!

She's the product of a divorce, the ex hubby took her, then the ex's girlfriend took to beating the poor dog. Our rescue friend took her, then mom fell in love, so we took her. She's a really good dog. Right now she's sprawled out beside me. :)

I've been bad...

I'm killing time. Taking the animals to the fair in about an hour.  I'm terrible about bloging lately, so I'll tell you what all's happened.

The lambs fell out of the trailer. * Mine were OK, but Stella broke her tail off!

Stella is 20 pounds under for minimum weight for sale on Saturday. *When they fell out of the trailer, they went off feed.

Still missing her

A know it's been awhile, but I still miss Caris. I thought I was completely over it by now, I guess you never get completely over it.

Triple Yank!

Before you think I'm racsist, let me explain. 'Yank' is what the guinea's alarm call sounds like. Thier nickname has become 'yanks' from that. I though I heard "the call" so I went in there. There, on the 'roof' of their cardboard brooder box, we 3 very smug guineas! Two of them scrabbled to the other end of the box, where it sloped, and slid right in the laundy basket! Easy catch on those two, the box piece covered most of the top of the basket. Third guinea was another story. Chased him around the room for a while, finally caught the little booger!

Tired Guineas

We have started turning the Guinea's heat lamp off during the day for two reasons, 1 It's so stinking HOT they don't need it. 2 If they have it all the time they won't feather out as quickly. It was dark in there, and I peeked in to check on them. All 10 of the little boogers were curled up, heads tucked behind their wing! Then we talked too loudly...."Pip?"....

Camp War Stories!

I got back from camp alive and able to tell war stories! So here are a few!

Our dorm leader was awesome! She said she liked noise, and didn't like awckward silence. I called her on that later. One thing I should explain is that we had acsess to coffee practically 24/7! (Imagine 12 hyper girls jammed into the same room, yeah!) We got to stay up late, but we stil didn't get to bed before 2:00 (AM!) each night (er, morning!) Every night in the dorm was very, er, loud. LEt's see, there was Sarah being obssesed with popping ballons, There was Ellie and her whoopy cushion, there was the shoe fight, there was Ellie being really loud, there was Ellie being duct-taped, there was the threat to sleep in the hall if we didn't quiet down RIGHT NOW. (BTW that usually sounded like, "HALLWAY!!!! NOWWW!!!!!") Hmmm, what else, there were games, there was us being really hyper, there was "HALLWAY!! NOW!!" If Elle used the whoopy cushion one more time. (The hallway threat was all in good fun, though) There was the fact that security camped outside our door. (Yes, they did, don't ask) There was Sarah scaring the dorm next to us by popping a ballon in their room after they turned out thier lights. So yeah, camp was really boring and dull!