Seeds Seeds SEEDS!

Our seeds came in the mail! I can't tell you how exciting it was to get them. Annie and I have been reading through our seed catalogs all winter. Annie's favorite bedtime story of course. I was a little late getting our order in, but thankfully they came super fast.


For the last two nights I have been sneaking down to the basement after Annie goes to bed to start seeds. I would love to start them with her, but there simply aren't enough hours in the day. So I now have just over 150 seeds started in the basement.
Thankfully our Impatiens and Pansies are doing great. Their true leaves have been coming in and many of them are starting to really take off.

new button

I put a new button under my links to take you directly to Merryl's website. If any of you are interested in learning to make cheese/yogurt, or would like to find out how to get fresh goats milk this is where to go. I used a photo of Annie at Merryl's for the button, but please note, Annie is not there.

Baby goats

Annie and I went by this morning to say hello to the new babies (one girl, one boy). We didn't get to stay to long because a few minutes after we walked in mama started looking agitated so we left. I did get a picture of the new babies and one of mama, but the quality is bad because I didn't want to irritate her with the flash. Annie was very happy to get a peek though and is trying to convince me that the mama wants to name the girl princess and the boy prince, "she told me so mama."
This is Merryl tending to the mama during the labor. She has a great website that tells you about her Cheese making classes (which I know first hand are really fun). To go see what Merryl is up to click here. She's always offering great classes, and when available she has her goats milk for sale.
Here's mama resting after her long labor. Are those not the cutest ears? This is why Sophie is my favorite. I love her droopy ears and spots.
And finally, the babies. They were snuggled up together sleeping when we got there.

Missed

Sophie had Twins! We weren't able to be at the birth due to my work schedule, but hopefully we'll make it to another one. Annie took the news in stride. Thankfully, hearing that Sophie had twins overpowered the devastation of missing the birth.

On Call

For the last 24 hours, Annie and I have been "on-call" to go witness our friend Merryl's goat kid (have a baby). It has not happened yet, but we're still on call. I'm not sure how I'll feel about a 2am phone call, but I will answer and I will get Annie out of bed to go see. This happens to be our favorite goat Sophie who is pregnant, and Annie is very excited. We spent a good portion of the day hanging out with Merryl and watching her two crazy cats climb up trees. Annie had fun visiting with Merryl's chickens and turkeys.

Annie dressed and ready to go.

Annie sitting on Merryl's porch with Pierre and kitten (they never named this one).

Annie holding a green egg, laid by one of their chickens.

Saying hi, to an old friend. Annie met this goat last year when she was two days old.

Meet Mamma Sophie.

Annie Saying good bye to Sophie and telling me, "she says she needs me here."

Planting Babies

You must be getting tired of all our planting by now, but sadly it's all we do. When I asked Annie what she wanted to do this morning? Big Surprise, "plant more babies," was her reply. After I got over her hysterical new name for seed starting, we got to work. This time we used empty eggshells from the chickens for the containers. I saved them from the pasta we made yesterday. So now we've combined two of Annie's favorite things, Chickens and Gardening. We're going to need a new hobby soon, I'm running out of space for all these babies.

Home

Today Annie and I got home at 4:30, which was nice after a long week. So we had to decide what we were going to do. Options: Clean our messy house, do laundry, watch a movie, or make pasta. As you can see from the photos, we chose to make pasta. Banjo included. My favorite part was to finally have a good way to store our pasta after it's made. I found these awesome tall kitchen jars at a garage sale and I love them. I love them even more because I got a case of them for $2. Tomorrow I will clean, maybe.