Life Update
My garden is an absolute mess. I haven't been able to work on it, and so with all the rain, I lost control of it :/ I have to cover the aisles with weed cloth, followed by wood chips, to keep the grass down. I stuck my cows in it one by one to eat up the grass, and they did a good job, but poof, there grew grass really tall after a hard rain while I was in the middle of doing the weed cloth :/ I will try again after exams :/
This year we'll be growing tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, brussel sprouts, spinach, broccoli raab, radishes, carrots, red cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, zucchini, round 8-ball zucchini, yellow squash, edamame beans, and I haven't decided what all else. I really don't need to finish the aisles to plant in my boxes, and I probably won't wait....the asparagus, strawberries and cold weather vegetables are already planted and growing.... We just had our (hopefully) last freeze last week, so I think I'm about on time.
One of my milk goats had babies: 2 boys, see the pics behind the cut. And I have a new yearling. Her name is Princess Diana...no I didn't name her and yes, she is all about being a princess. The bucks love her...they have bulging heart eyes whenever she comes near the fence that separates them. I tried to breed her with Vinnie when she arrived, but she beat the shit out of him. I guess she wasn't interested :P
I shaved Dakota and made him look like a lion yesterday. He's so cute...and much more little now. I have no pictures of our little lion.
The rest of the news can be done in pictures.
This is our milk shed. Joey, who swore he wouldn't do it, built me a milk shed while I was out. He's kewl. It's built off the side of the henhouse.
This is the stanchion that my friend/neighbor Geoff made, along with the hay rack on the wall. I have nice neighbors :)
This is Scarlet. Scarlet is a one-year-old beefmaster who thinks she's a puppy. An 800lb puppy. She was rejected by her wild and crazy mother, and had to be penned up and bottle fed along with another calf. The other calf went back with the herd when she got old enough, but Scarlet really didn't do well and got too skinny. Roger sent her over to me to keep my jersey company. She absolutely loves to be loved on. But I can't stay in the yard with her to long or she'll rub bruises on me and push me (almost into the electric fence today) around. She was chasing me while I was feeding them bananas. They love fruit.
This are Hali's babies: they're 1 month old now:
This is an earlier picture of boy2. He was chasing me down and climbing all over me today so I couldn't get a picture of him. He's the snuggle bunny of the two. In the below picture he's a few hours old.
This is Diana, my yearling. OMG, she is spoiled rotten. That mess of rubble in the background used to be a lean-to that blew apart in the high winds earlier this spring. Joey demolished it and is building a new one. It took him over two weeks to figure out we had a new goat. I figure it would have been longer, but his lean-to is like right there next to the nubian doe pen.
