Goings on...

Compost, sour dough bread rising, a newly painted kitchen.

 

 

It's spring around here which I am very happy to see. We still have cooler temps in the evenings, but during the day has been nice not hot yet.

All the babes are growing with more arriving this summer.  See the pretty green grass that is starting to come up.

 

Wisteria is getting ready to bloom and send out it's delightful aroma.

Catnaps are being taken of....

 

Our neighbors sold their timber on their 25 acres and it has opened up our view. Cows are growing and getting ready to be taken to the butcher.

And the boys are just boy goats now instead of spraying, smelly, obnoxious, boy goats. At least till about August.

 

The baby is growing

 

Caeser is now 6 months old this week

 

And he is a complete and total mess...literally he is always rolling in something when it rains he is orange since he loves to sit in the rain and then roll on the barn flour in the orange dirt. But he is such a smart dog and a joy to have. I won't let him off his leash yet when I take him to feed the cows and bucks but he will sit and stay for me for as long as I need him to while I'm feeding as long as I remind him every now and then to sit and stay.

 

He is very protective already of me and the goats. We burned horns a few weeks ago and he had a hard time listening to his babies and he will sleep next to them when they are asleep. He loves to lick their faces when they are messy drinking from their bottles and he knows they are babies not to be played with. Our border collie has always amazed me how smart he is and Caesar is just as smart if not smarter at 6 months is much farther ahead of Speck at that age in training and in other areas.

 

Now he has had his moments but he's a puppy and is neat to watch as he learns to guard his flock and how they have included him in their herd.

 



Autumn Chores

Autumn seems to be the time of year to burn brush piles that need to be taken care of. I'ts cool and the crispness of the weather seems to smell so good add some woodsmoke and it is like digging in the garden in the spring...earthy, primal, instinctive.

So we've been burning some piles in the pasture where our barn is at since hubby cut some trees down and we let the does eat the leaves off of them. The trunks I want to cut up for logs but the branches are burning nice since they are dry.

 

We have one goat who loves the smoke, Silk's previous owners smoked and they said she loved cigarette smoke. Well I think she loves any kind of smoke.