The other day on our walk I found a stray balloon in our pasture. I brought it home and showed it to the goats to see what they thought of it. Since I was handing out treats they didn’t pay much attention, but I soon realized I’d accidentally “fed” the string to Finn when I was giving him a cookie. He was chomping on the string and kind of eyeing the balloon suspiciously and I facetiously prodded the balloon with my toe to see what would happen. I was not prepared for the explosion which followed! 

I hope you are doing well today!  For this week’s stream I’ve got some classic Cuzco moments from 2008 to share with you!  See Cuzco eat things & defend his honor against a small cat!
https://youtu.be/4T0ziwdrV6o

Hope to see you there!
-Phil

Some fun fiddle tunes coming your way today!  Hope to see you there!
https://youtu.be/d6EUsw7AmGw

-Phil

This week I’m going all the way back to 2011, when we only had one goat: Cuzco The Goat!  I’ve also got a special guest this week, Kimberly Hope, my violin teacher.  We’ll be playing a duet of an Irish waltz for you!

https://youtu.be/rcKvT51NDIY

Hope to see you there!
-Phil

This week I’ve got a couple videos of Nibbles!  She was our first doe, and I might have a few stories to tell about her!  (Remind me!)
https://youtu.be/MZjHTddM6SA

Catch you there!
-Phil

When I got her she was an ethereal beauty and so I named her “Stardust”.

Turns out she is more “earthy” than ethereal so now I call her “Dusty”.

Also, she’s half Arabian, half Paint Horse. The first photo is of the Arabian half and the second photo is of the Paint Horse half.

In other news, our Christmas tree was demolished in short order. The goats thoroughly enjoyed every bite. This is what it looked like a day or so after we gave it to them:

Believe it or not, it is even MORE bare now!

This week I’ve dug up some of Nubbin and Petunia’s baby videos from 2013!
https://youtu.be/R8pgPRr9IJw

Hope to see you!
-Phil

Some fun tunes today as we watch Finn’s baby goat videos!
https://youtu.be/Tau4QPadqXo

-Phil

Today our water stopped working, but that’s not going to stop me from doing a livestream! And I’ve got a special Indiana Valentine’s video to play!

Hope to see you there!  Same time as always, 5pm MST.  
https://youtu.be/MMNEdIEnaTU

-Phil

Well, it was a good Christmas this year. We had one of the best trees ever. It was one we cut down when we first moved here, but that hadn’t discouraged it. Branches sprouted from the trunk and grew up full and tall. It was one of the only really healthy, green trees we found on our slope in this drought year. Most of our firs had a lot of brown and faded branches, but not this one! I love how it has two tops and it looks like our quetzal bird is perched in the smaller one. 

It looked magnificent in lights.

But all good things must come to an end. This tree was particularly healthy and we kept it all the way until January 25th–a world record in our house where trees are always gone about a week after New Years. But eventually it stopped drinking water and it was time for our tree to have new purpose… feeding a herd of hungry goats! 


Mmm…mmm! Sputnik approves!

It’s almost as much fun to strip the bark with horns as it is with teeth!

Queen Ziggy!


Told ya she was Queen! You can’t have a proper Christmas pageant without a Christmas Queen!