Man… we had weather like I’ve never seen in Colorado before! The temperatures have been swinging from crazy low to crazy high these last few days, sometimes in the space of just a few hours. Yesterday it was almost 60 degrees out, so everything got slushy. Then last night a heavy fog came down and … Continue reading Icebound
Yesterday was festive. It was a beautiful sunshiny day (a bit too windy, but I guess we can’t have everything). No girls are in heat right now (three should hopefully be bred), so I was able to let everyone out to play together. All the goats got a little something for Christmas. I bought a bag … Continue reading Christmas 2014
Yesterday we took Delilah out for a date. This is a young son of Nubbin’s father and I like him better than his daddy (even if he is just plain brown). He’s long and tall and I’m told his mother has a gorgeous udder. I don’t remember his name–it was one of those weird names … Continue reading Delilah’s Date
Yesterday Phil and I took Snickers and Sputnik to the annual Yule Log festival in Beulah. As expected, it was a total riot! What a fun event! The boys were a bit nervous at first, especially Sputnik who couldn’t stop shaking for at least the first half hour. He kept darting away from the people … Continue reading Yule Log Festival 2014
One afternoon last spring I heard Daisy barking so I peeked out the window to see what she was excited about. A white station wagon was slowly crawling up the driveway with a neatly dressed couple inside. Only Jehovah Witnesses dress in their Sunday best on a weekday and come calling at your house uninvited. … Continue reading Uninvited guests get uninvited guests
My goats are grounded at home due to a vesicular stomatitis quarantine. The horses got sick, not the goats, but for some reason the goats have to stay home too. It meant that all our Halloween festivities had to remain on home territory. Bummer. Fortunately, we have enough goats and enough costumes that we were … Continue reading Halloween goats on parade!
I got my stuff out to milk, let Nubbin and Petunia onto the patio, then turned my back for two seconds to plop down Cuzco’s mush bucket and this is what I turned back around to: Who me??? No, probably not you, Nubbin. I should have known better. I usually am very diligent to tie … Continue reading Petunia festoons the patio with… expensive teat wipes.
A few days before we left for our annual “goat vacation,” I got a box of step-in posts to add as extra supports for my electric goat fence. The net was sagging between posts and I can’t have sagging fences now that the bucks are noticing the does and vice versa! I laid the box … Continue reading From order to chaos–just add goats!
One of the highlights of the State Fair was that my friend had a birthday on the last day and I supplied the cake and ice cream. It was extremely decadent! I made chocolate/vanilla marble cake (which incidentally called for 1 1/2 cups of milk) with rich chocolate frosting. I also made mint chocolate chip … Continue reading “It tastes like happy goats!”
We had a great time at the Colorado State Fair this past weekend and our goats did pretty well for themselves. We didn’t win any championships or anything, but we had fun and made friends. We only took Petunia and Nubbin this year. I brought them a day early so I could do the one … Continue reading “How to Train Your Goat-Dragon” and other Nautical Nonsense