Oh my goodness. Where do I start? Faith, our oldest nan gave birth to quadruplets yesterday afternoon while I was running J. to ballroom and stopping at the grocery store for dinner ingredients. I pulled into the garage met by E. who dashed out to wave me in like a sky marshall. I thought at [...]

We’ve been getting ready for our goat mamas to deliver. We didn’t get them hooked up with Sock Monkey until December 1st, so we were figuring they’d be ready to give birth any time the first week of May. E. went out to the goat shed this morning to start clearing out the old straw [...]

It’s already April and if things were normal, I’d have the greenhouse plastic up and be babying seedlings by now. Friends want to help us get our garden in and help keep it alive and weeded through the summer. I’m not sure if it will work, but I’m trying to re-think my typical garden plans. [...]

We had our first frost last night, I’ve been nervously waiting for it for a couple of weeks so it’s kind of a relief that it’s finally arrived. This week the kids around here are off school for what was, traditionally, the potato harvest season. With a nod to our Idahoan forebears, we’re spending the [...]

I can’t believe I haven’t written about Nutmeg yet! After we sold our ATV, E. wanted to use some of the money to get another female kid. He found this sweet brown dwarf goat on Craigslist and drove over with the (human) kids to pick her up. The owner apparently reads my blog, but of [...]