Goat Days and Dog-Tired Nights
It's been a week of extraordinary accomplishments--all homestead related.
In the past four days, we finished the goat shed, put proper latches on the goat gates (more on why later in this post), and moved the bunnies to their permanent outdoor location, complete with an electric fan and plenty of shade and protection.
The weirdest thing we did was build a goat stand. Greg calls it the guillotine because the goat has to put her head through this hole and then we trap her there while I work on her hooves or milk her. (No milking until she gets pregnant.)
I was never sure it was going to work, but the girls happily climbed up on it knowing there'd be goodies in the food bowl on the other side of the guillotine.
Yesterday was brush-burning day. We had a dozen dead trees to bring down and burn. It took all day, but the place looks great. I wish I had taken a video of the fire. It was awesome.
We did have one goat malfunction last week. Greg and I were working on the goat shed and we kept going in and out of the pen. Unfortunately, we left to take a break and didn't notice the gate wasn't properly closed. (Hence the reason there are now double latches.)
Sure enough, the goats decided to check out the great outdoors beyond their pen. Fortunately, they know what a rattling food bucket sounds like and they came rushing toward me and followed me all the way back into the pen.
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Still acclimating myself to Feedly. I deeply apologize if I missed any of your posts. Somehow instead of deleting one category, I end up deleting ALL my feeds. It's been driving me insane. I know I'll figure it out eventually, but I'm disappointed that it's not as user-friendly as Google Reader.
I'm going to try Bloglovin too and see if that's more readable.
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Well, that's what I've been up to the last few days, up to and including an impromptu get-together with friends and a special birthday dinner for Greg. What's been on your plate this past week?
The weirdest thing we did was build a goat stand. Greg calls it the guillotine because the goat has to put her head through this hole and then we trap her there while I work on her hooves or milk her. (No milking until she gets pregnant.)
I was never sure it was going to work, but the girls happily climbed up on it knowing there'd be goodies in the food bowl on the other side of the guillotine.
Yesterday was brush-burning day. We had a dozen dead trees to bring down and burn. It took all day, but the place looks great. I wish I had taken a video of the fire. It was awesome.
We did have one goat malfunction last week. Greg and I were working on the goat shed and we kept going in and out of the pen. Unfortunately, we left to take a break and didn't notice the gate wasn't properly closed. (Hence the reason there are now double latches.)
Sure enough, the goats decided to check out the great outdoors beyond their pen. Fortunately, they know what a rattling food bucket sounds like and they came rushing toward me and followed me all the way back into the pen.
***
Still acclimating myself to Feedly. I deeply apologize if I missed any of your posts. Somehow instead of deleting one category, I end up deleting ALL my feeds. It's been driving me insane. I know I'll figure it out eventually, but I'm disappointed that it's not as user-friendly as Google Reader.
I'm going to try Bloglovin too and see if that's more readable.
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Well, that's what I've been up to the last few days, up to and including an impromptu get-together with friends and a special birthday dinner for Greg. What's been on your plate this past week?
Comments
Are you going to make goat's cheese? Mmmm, that's my favorite.
And though that contraption looks oddly sadistic, it appears to work so yay for the guillotine-looking-thing.
But you do notice I'm here checking out blogs instead of cleaning, right? Yeah, I hate cleaning. I know it will go better if I break it into smaller tasks instead of doing it all at once, but I have to get off my butt first!!!
I need to keep them still if I'm going to trim hooves or milk.
I went to Laughlin to visit my mom for the long weekend. I'm still catching up.
I haven't chosen a feed-thingy yet. Maybe I'll try Bloglovin'
Then scream. Because I know you need to.
Good luck and be careful.
You've got me thinking of goat cheese...yum. Seems my aunt used to use the milk in pancakes instead of buttermilk, too. Good stuff.
Happy birthday to Greg :)
Thanks for the good wishes!
I've been using Bloglovin' and find the app very good. I can read feeds on my laptop with chrome or on my ipad as the moods takes me. It's easy to add blogs to my feed too.
I'm pretty sure I'll be slow to milk too.