Spring stuff..
.TODAY...SHOWERS LIKELY IN THE MORNING...THEN CHANCE OF SHOWERS
IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS 50 TO 55. SOUTHWEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
.TONIGHT...MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF SHOWERS. LOWS IN THE LOWER
TO MID 40S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH.
Yeah, back to the rain we go. Sunday didn't rain at all and it was a beautiful sunny but cold day.
Yesterday was a bit cloudy and a few sprinkles, but it was still not REALLY raining.
And so far the forecast for the week is "chance of showers."
Does are kidding these past few days. I got triplets from an old Racer daughter that I bought back from J, a doe for me and 2 bucks for the doe to raise. Yesterday morning I found Triumph with a big buck kid from one of the few successful AI breedings . Velma was looking like she had had a kid, but there was none to be seen. Then I saw the afterbirth so I knew there was a baby around there somewhere...I checked outside the rolling door and sure enough all curled up somehow she got herself outside, there was a wierd fliffy white doe kid. She's pretty strange looking, although now that's she's a day old she looks a bit normal. She does have one ear neatly folded back, and one hanging down to help with her Liza Minelli look.
I went down to Salmon Creek on Saturday and brought back a doe for me and one for J. It was a beautiful day to take a little drive through the Redwoods and hang out in the sun talking goats.
Yesterday J and M came down and brought me some hay and to pick up their doe, who I had been milking. Poor Mike is on crutches after knee surgery. Actually, I was expecting him to be in worse shape than he is, he seems to be getting around well. They had spent the afternoon at the new Casino, which I have yet to visit.
It's time to move some of these babies and yearlings all around so I spent the afternoon doing just that. The late bred and open yearlings have been turned out in the pasture with the bucks. Now that the rain has quit the grass might start growing again. I haven't mowed ( or needed to mow) the lawn for weeks; that is sure an indication that nothing is growing. Many pastures in the valley are now just mud fields, the cows have gotten so far ahead of the grass and the ground is so so soft.
J also took sweet Rosebud yesterday. I hope she does O K at J's dairy; she's the bottom of the pecking order here, and such a sweet girl. She comes when she is called by name. I must remind myself that I can't keep every goat, and Rosebud had a doe kid to keep so she can go and be a dairy goat now. I did tell J that if she doesn't work out I'll take her back.
Last night I got down on my knees and started scrubbing the kitchen floor. I can't remember the last time I did this. In my opinion it's the only way to really get a floor clean. I think once I get it totally clean I will put down a fresh coat of paint.
Yesterday was the 2nd anniversary of my Aunt's death, last week was the 4th anniversary of my Father's. I called my cousin and my auntie over the weekend; it's always good to hear their voices. My Uncle is the "greeter" at Windham Ski area; that cracks me up, I can totally see it! He just can't get away from the theater.
Yesterday the geese and swans were swarming all over my side of the valley. They make such a ruckus, and when they fly over en masse like that you can hear all the poop falling like rain on the tin roof and splatting on the yard cement. I stood in the big barn doorway to watch them, 10 or more individual groups with hundreds of birds in each, all going in different directions at different altitudes and suddenly a big swarm of swallows swooped from behind the barn and descended on the lake that is the hay field. Darting and dashing as they fly, and sipping water, how do they know it's the first day of spring?
I am very glad to see the swallows. Traditionally the swallows return to Capistrano on March 19th. These swallows aren't my swallows, so they really haven't returned to my "mission" yet. When I see them hanging out in my barn, back to rebuild last year's nests, then I will say they have returned.
IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS 50 TO 55. SOUTHWEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
.TONIGHT...MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF SHOWERS. LOWS IN THE LOWER
TO MID 40S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH.
Yeah, back to the rain we go. Sunday didn't rain at all and it was a beautiful sunny but cold day.
Yesterday was a bit cloudy and a few sprinkles, but it was still not REALLY raining.
And so far the forecast for the week is "chance of showers."
Does are kidding these past few days. I got triplets from an old Racer daughter that I bought back from J, a doe for me and 2 bucks for the doe to raise. Yesterday morning I found Triumph with a big buck kid from one of the few successful AI breedings . Velma was looking like she had had a kid, but there was none to be seen. Then I saw the afterbirth so I knew there was a baby around there somewhere...I checked outside the rolling door and sure enough all curled up somehow she got herself outside, there was a wierd fliffy white doe kid. She's pretty strange looking, although now that's she's a day old she looks a bit normal. She does have one ear neatly folded back, and one hanging down to help with her Liza Minelli look.
I went down to Salmon Creek on Saturday and brought back a doe for me and one for J. It was a beautiful day to take a little drive through the Redwoods and hang out in the sun talking goats.
Yesterday J and M came down and brought me some hay and to pick up their doe, who I had been milking. Poor Mike is on crutches after knee surgery. Actually, I was expecting him to be in worse shape than he is, he seems to be getting around well. They had spent the afternoon at the new Casino, which I have yet to visit.
It's time to move some of these babies and yearlings all around so I spent the afternoon doing just that. The late bred and open yearlings have been turned out in the pasture with the bucks. Now that the rain has quit the grass might start growing again. I haven't mowed ( or needed to mow) the lawn for weeks; that is sure an indication that nothing is growing. Many pastures in the valley are now just mud fields, the cows have gotten so far ahead of the grass and the ground is so so soft.
J also took sweet Rosebud yesterday. I hope she does O K at J's dairy; she's the bottom of the pecking order here, and such a sweet girl. She comes when she is called by name. I must remind myself that I can't keep every goat, and Rosebud had a doe kid to keep so she can go and be a dairy goat now. I did tell J that if she doesn't work out I'll take her back.
Last night I got down on my knees and started scrubbing the kitchen floor. I can't remember the last time I did this. In my opinion it's the only way to really get a floor clean. I think once I get it totally clean I will put down a fresh coat of paint.
Yesterday was the 2nd anniversary of my Aunt's death, last week was the 4th anniversary of my Father's. I called my cousin and my auntie over the weekend; it's always good to hear their voices. My Uncle is the "greeter" at Windham Ski area; that cracks me up, I can totally see it! He just can't get away from the theater.
Yesterday the geese and swans were swarming all over my side of the valley. They make such a ruckus, and when they fly over en masse like that you can hear all the poop falling like rain on the tin roof and splatting on the yard cement. I stood in the big barn doorway to watch them, 10 or more individual groups with hundreds of birds in each, all going in different directions at different altitudes and suddenly a big swarm of swallows swooped from behind the barn and descended on the lake that is the hay field. Darting and dashing as they fly, and sipping water, how do they know it's the first day of spring?
I am very glad to see the swallows. Traditionally the swallows return to Capistrano on March 19th. These swallows aren't my swallows, so they really haven't returned to my "mission" yet. When I see them hanging out in my barn, back to rebuild last year's nests, then I will say they have returned.
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