Favorite Books, SweetPea, more Bamboo

I really like author Gail Damerow.

also, has illustrations such as milking a goat

From Storey Books - Country Wisdom

Country Living by Carla Emery

I shiver think what all I'd do for this precious girl, SweetPea.

Yeah girl, give me the show pose. She's 3 months old now.

SweetPea was posing for the camera.

walking to the buck pen

can you count 5 Bourbon Reds? Franklin and 4 girls.

This may not be correct compost procedure - I throw the veggie scrapes an egg shells on top of the compost pile and let them air out for a couple of days then work 'em in to the pile.

I have 3 compost piles, this is the 2nd one.

Yesterday I blogged about bamboo and I got a couple of comments about bamboo being invasive. Yes, it is if you just let it go. When you plant some, would be good to have access to the perimeters of how far you want it to spread. This photo is looking to my yard from the neighbors. In the months of May and June, Mike mows the edge of this property and ours, to mow down the new shoots it sends out. Just keep it mowed down for those two months and then you don't have to worry about it again until next year. Our goats and chickens are beyond this "screen."

My hand on a bamboo pole. Also, yesterday I forgot to mention that we mulch the bamboo and put in walkways, chicken houses, etc. It's makes wonderful mulch.

Ours is tall.

Dec 26

I made Mike and I a big pot of tasty soup today - chocked full of veggies, a little meat, with a rich tomato, garlic, shallots, onion thing going on.

When we have the boys and girls out together, Mike keeps Dud on a leash so he doesn't breed the girls, we have Nougat mating Clara and June. A year from now, SweetPea and Dud will be boyfriend and girlfriend. Out in the yard today, SweetPea kept trying to ram Dud in the butt. Funny entertainment.

SweetPea and her goat mama, June. I'm her human mama. Yesterday, I layed a blanket in the backyard and thought she might lay down beside me. She pounced all over me, raring up, kicking up, I'm lucky I don't have any broken ribs. She likes to treat me like a trampoline. Mike tells people if anything ever happened to SweetPea, he reckoned he'd have to bury me too. I'm absolutely in love that little goat. She's three months old now and I got her, (and her mama, and her grandma) when she was just two weeks old.

Nougat kept massaging his head on the chair, maybe he had a headache.

June and SweetPea

Franklin, June and Punkin

Franklin, Bourbon Red tom, just a pet. He has two hens plus he had two daughters to hatch late this summer. Turkey eggs at the Farmers Market have gotten very popular for us so we're thrilled we'll have two more hens. Our turkey girls have been excellent layers.

one daughter

second daughter

Look at Nougat's lips, and Clara

Gettin' out with the Goats

Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goats. We have three does and two bucks.

MilkDud

SweetPea. I kiss those lips every chance I get.

SweetPea rear view

Mike and SweetPea

Mike and MilkDud, working with Dud trying to tame him down.

A lady with cattle, gave this cotton to Mike, says her cattle likes eating cotton, our goats turned their noses up to it though.

Early, Cuckoo Marans Rooster likes to have his picture taken.

Nougat and Clara went on a date. Dud didn't like being left out.

Nougat, SweetPea, June, and Clara

The batchelor pad -Nougat in the house and Dud outside.

Nougat and MilkDud

Nougat, Clara and Franklin

Nougat and Clara

Nougat and Clara

Nougat and Clara

Clara and Nougat. Nougat visited Clara's condo.

Goat Photo's on TDay! Nov 27.08

Look how SweetPea moves her lips while Mike scratches her chest.

Look in the lower right corner, SweetPea doesn't understand why I'm on the outside looking in, I usually sit in the goat pen, and love on her for a while.

Early, my Cuckoo Marans roo and Clara, SweetPea's Grandma.

Clara and June, Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goat does.