Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Visiting Billy

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Just to try and tie up any loose ends, I had my neighbor bring over her billy goat, Kramer. I'll get a picture of him up soon, because h...
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Monday, December 29, 2008

Is This Pony Pregnant?

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When I bought Rosie Pony back in October (?), I was warned that there was a chance she was pregnant. She had "had access" to a sta...
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Sunday, December 28, 2008

I Hate Breeding Goats

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Xana is back in heat, along with Django and her baby Valentine. So far, we've paid $150 in breeding fees and had two failures that we kn...
Friday, December 26, 2008

One Giant Leap

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Well, not really. This morning one of my minor fears came true: I was up in the hayloft getting some hay for the goats when the ladder fell ...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Snowed in Again!

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Unbelievable! Another seven or eight inches last night and still snowing like a mad bastard. When I went out to check on the animals, I was ...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Digging Out

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The mountains are out today, for the first time in well over a week. It's been one record breaking day after another here, temperatures ...
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Saturday, December 20, 2008

I Spoke Too Soon

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Well, I'm not in Oaxaca. We are all still here enjoying the sub-zero wind chill factor. Travel document issue, and that's all I'...
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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Adios, Snow!

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Well, we're off, like a herd of turtles as my dear mother likes to say. Leaving the farm with a foot of snow on the ground, more snow an...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

Arctic Blast!

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Whoo-hoo! When we were looking at this house, the house inspector, a local guy, warned us "you get a lot of weather up on this ridge,...
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Friday, December 12, 2008

Failed Goat Sex

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Iris isn't pregnant. She is out there "flagging," waving her tail around to send a message to any nearby bucks that's she...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Maximum Chicken

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We have four new chickens. That's not actually a picture of any one of them (camera still broken) but it is a picture I got off the web ...
Monday, December 8, 2008

Vacation Expenses

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My goodness, but leaving the farm is expensive. Luckily, the couple I found to farm-sit will work cheap: they are staying in the house twelv...
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Friday, December 5, 2008

Taking a Break

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We are leaving town on the 17th, going to Oaxaca for christmas, a two week vacation. I'm looking forward to the trip; we haven't bee...
Thursday, December 4, 2008

Shock Happy

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Hooray! The electric fence has been working for three whole days now! And the goats are starting to wise up. At first they were getting shoc...
Monday, December 1, 2008

Great Goat Escape

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Nobody I know has the troubles I do with containing their livestock. Remember the chickens that almost started a neighborly feud? Remember w...
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