Our friends Hank and Deb came over to play games last week and Deb and Finn became good friends in a very short time. 

Today we found out why our internet went down yesterday and wouldn’t come back no matter what Phil did to it. We jiggled the wires and got it back, but we’ve got a service call in to the phone company to come fix it properly. Naughty goats!

Pac-Man does funny things.

He’s the king of lounging in dust piles.

Oftentimes he sits up and tumps over.

Then he makes like a horse…

And over he goes!

Finn is growing like a weed and already these photos from last week look dated. It won’t be long before we won’t be able to do this any more!

Petunia has been fairly intrigued by her little brother and is more tolerant of him than the other grown-ups. They started playing recently, and this morning they were butting heads. Petunia even tried standing on her hind legs, which looked really funny because she’s so huge right now!

“Mama, play with me!”

“Play with me now!”

“Why are grown-ups so boring?”

Petunia is due this week, and I’m pretty sure she’s got twins. I’ve felt a baby on the right and a baby on the left at the same time. I suppose it could be one big stretch limo of a baby, but I certainly hope not! It/they are lively little critters too! I love feeling them kick after the heartbreak with Nubbin’s kids. I’m probably going to be a bit of a nervous wreck until these babies are safely delivered!

Petunia was looking tired and depressed earlier this week, so I started giving her an extra ration of grain by herself in the mornings along with some Gatorade powder and she seems to have perked up quite a bit. She’s also got a stubborn cough that she contracted a couple of weeks ago. Nubbin was coughing first but she got over it as soon as she lost her pregnancy. I wonder if Petunia has the same thing and is also having a hard time fighting it while pregnant.

May 29th was me and Phil’s 15th wedding anniversary. How time does fly when you’re having fun! Phil bought me flowers and made this lovely arrangement with stuffed goats, a couple of crazy creatures holding hands front and center, and “15 Years of Goatastic Good Times” typed up for me to read. He’d written down something that had happened in each of the fifteen years we’ve been together, with an emphasis on goats.

Last week I went to haul water and Pac-Man came with me. I want him to get accustomed to riding in the bed of a truck without the cage on it, and I really want him to get comfortable leaving the other goats. I want him to enjoy being by himself with people and having adventures like Cuzco does. I doubt any goat we own from now on is going to love getting out by himself the way Cuzco does because all of them will be raised with other goats, but I’d like him to at least get used to the idea and not be terrified, loud, or unhappy.

He did pretty good besides occasionally climbing on the side when we were stopped. I don’t think this goat will ever try to jump out. He’s not terribly athletic and he knows it, so it makes him a bit of a coward when it comes to heights and jumping. This means he’ll likely never be a great companion on rough or technical hikes, but on the flip side, we’ll never have to rescue him off a cliff face like we did with Nibbles.

“Please let me on the porch. I’m a good goat!”

Who can resist a request like that?

“Who goes there? State the secret password!”

“I’m gorgeous…”

“You know I am.”

Phil gave a great interview to Modern Farmer magazine the other day!

Phil loves it when Finn helps with his work. Or at least helps him watch inane YouTube videos. 

Finn’s teeth are growing and yesterday he was showing them off, the little monster! Did I mention that these sharp, scary little teeth are the first thing I felt when I reached inside Lilly to see what the delay was about? The first thing Finn did before he even entered the world was to bite my finger!

But once I saw him I thought he was way too cute to put back.

You can tell these two belong together–they look like a matched set!

Yesterday we went for an outing in the scrub oak behind the house. Finn thoroughly enjoyed himself, hiding behind bushes, leaping from rock to rock, and tasting everything in sight.

Later on I took Finn with me to a Saddle Club meeting  where he distracted everyone with cuteness. No one seemed to mind.

I also took Daisy to the groomers today to get shaved.

I’m not sure I brought home the same dog! I took down a dirty mop and brought home what looks like a sleek labrador cross! The poor girl has been spending as much time as possible wallowing in water troughs, creeks, puddles, the cow pond, and anything else wet. She also had a few ticks hiding down in all that fur. She’s about half the size she was and I had to remove what used to be a snug chain collar because it was hanging down like a necklace, but I think she’ll be a lot more comfortable now.