Goats Hate Snow
We had snow this week. None of the animals were happy about it, except our brilliant herd-guardian dogs, who are Great Pyrenees. They...
Amazing things I've learned from dogs
We had snow this week. None of the animals were happy about it, except our brilliant herd-guardian dogs, who are Great Pyrenees. They...
This week we said goodbye to three of our beloved goats. They moved to a new farm, north of Santa Fe. These were the three that we...
We are living in paradise. The weather is exactly what I would want if I were creating the perfect planet. It’s in the 40s at night, in...
Big Red continued to improve this week. By Saturday she was leaving the chicken coop and hanging out in the rose bushes (where the hens...
It’s suddenly fall here. It’s dark out when I go next door to my cousin’s house. It’s in the 40s every morning when we milk the goats...
I’ve been misled by the song, “June is Bustin’ Out All Over”. That song goes on and on about how the entire animal kingdom is made...
We’ve added another animal to our menagerie here: Coco! Last Sunday, we drove down to Jarales and got her. She is eleven weeks old, and...
Look at this chicken: I sat looking at her the other morning, and she seemed to blink her eyes from time to time, but the feathery part...
So much has happened on the farm since last week! The first thing that happened was that we sold two more of this year’s baby goats. ...
We completed our new chicken coop! We are ready to move the hens to their coop this weekend! It’s a good thing, too, because they’re...
The big event this week was moving the baby chickens out of Kat’s room and onto my front porch. (Which is the same porch we use as a...
Our baby chicks continue to grow like weeds. Look at this lovely little hen: I love her feathered feet! And, here’s evidence that they...
We have just emerged from a rainy period here on the goat farm. My cousin says we always have this rainy period in July. I looked it up....
I have waited weeks to get this photo! I first saw this being several weeks ago on my way to the Post Office, and nearly ran off the road...
I made a mistake last week. I said that the baby chicks that we were going to get in the mail were packed in a box with three days worth...
This week I drove up to Colorado to visit my sister. I went, partly, in order to lay out the quilt I’m making for our niece, Kat. Here...
Look at this gorgeous bale of alfalfa: See the lovely blue flowers in it? Our goats love this hay. We were talking with Robert, our hay...
Last Friday I was working on my niece Kat’s quilt. I had just finished a block, and looked out the window, and saw that the field to our...
This week began with Mothra getting her head stuck in a chain link fence. It was early in the morning, I was about to head over to my...
Our saga with hay continued this week. Our hay guy was not able to harvest and bale at the end of last week. It rained for three days...