This is one of my favorite times of the year – you might be saying “you’re nuts!” The temperature has recently fell below 100 degrees here in North Texas – yeah… 99 degrees, a cold front I know. It’s humid to boot. So what...
So we’re floating away in milk… we need to do something… and letting the girls drink all the milk they wanted wasn’t the answer – although they try every day. The answer was cheese. Homemade cheese – why not!? I know it takes lots of milk to make cheese so...
We’re floating in milk! We now have 3 dairy goats we’re milking – Tam was a pain to start with but is now our best milker! Handles good – tame – easy to milk… the best! Princes Leia is a Lamancha (the goat with no ears) and she’s small and...
I finished milking tonight and Laurie filtered it while I went about the rest of the chores. As she looks in the milk pail there is something colored – maybe a little bit of dirt… ‘It will get filtered out” she thinks to herself… then...
Monday morning when Clara and I were feeding the cows (this sounds strangely familiar) I was almost gored by PS. He was hungry, and is quite playful, but 1 ton of muscle rearing up his head (which happens to have a nice pointy horn on it) and catching you right above...
Saturday some of our good great awesome best friends came up to our place to help us with some fencing. We’ve been struggling with the fence since we moved to our farm eight months ago – then we were putting in some hotwire as we were moving all of our animals –...
