Fair Week 2012

It's  been a few weeks since fair ended.  Yet I still find myself going back to this series of pictures for a smile.  

You see, Miss Meg was not too excited to get up and show her animals in front of everyone.  She is so terribly shy.  Everything had gone so well with the rabbits and guinea pigs.  All we had to do was get though the goats.  I should have known it wouldn't stay so easy.  

The first sign something might happen.  "What's that over there?"

 "Oh wow, the grass over here smells so different."

"Oh, am I suppose to be behaving myself now?"

 

And that was it.  She was off.  And through it all, Meg survived.  She didn't have a breakdown and she didn't get mad.  She just got determined.  The goat may have been distracted, but Meg did not give up.  She even had fun.  I'm so proud of her.

Wow!  I knew I had been neglecting my blog, but somehow it did not feel like it had been six months.  In that time all of my kids have had birthdays.  Both of my goats have had babies.  One of my hens hatched out chicks.  Not to mention all of winter has come and gone.  

Life has been busy.  At the same time, nothing really profound has happened.  I have to wonder if that is because what we do now just seems normal, or if I am really that boring.  I prefer to think it's the former.

At one time having goats be born on our homestead would have been at the very top of my list of profound things.

And wouldn't you know, as I was writing this Rob came in to tell me that Stormagedon (one of our goat bucks) was out.  There's a first for us.  Too bad I wasn't smart enough to grab my camera.  Luckily he was easy enough to get back in the pen.  All it took was a little hay.

Here is a picture of Stormagedon from a few months a go.  He has since lost his winter coat and is almost completely white!

Cream Soda with her baby when she was just a couple hours old.  I think this should be on a Mother's Day card.

Nigerian Dwarf baby #1.  

Nigerian Dwarf baby #2.

This picture I just love for some reason.  It cracks me up.  She looks like she belongs in the latest vampire movie.  All that is missing is the fangs.

That's all I have time for now.  I'll try to do better.

He Wants To Be A Model

Otis is looking for a new home.  We had planned to get pygmy does at one point, so at the time getting him seemed like a good idea.  Unfortunately things fell through concerning the does so we really don't have a reason to keep him other than as a pet.  

If any of you reading this has buck goats, they will know why they don't always make good pets.  When they are in Rut, they can get a little aggressive, not to mention smelly.  Also, when he can smell that the does we do have are in heat, it is stressful for him.  

So you can see  why it would be better to find him a home where he can be more useful.  Although I'm not sure he's planning to stay with farm life.  He seems to want a modeling job.  He's working on his portfolio now.  Here are his current head shots:

All of us here at Bramble Valley Homestead (our now official farm name) hope that you and yours have a wonderful Thanksgiving (if you are in the US) if you choose to celebrate it.