♫Here's a story, of a goat named Daisy...♪ ;)

It all started on the 13th of April when our matriarch of the goat heard, Daisy, had these two cuties:

Meet Harriet, everyone!

and here's me holding newborn Emma! :D

Then, the last Saturday, Daisy's daughter, Dove, had her first kid, a skinny little boy:

Anna named this chap Flynn. :)

And two days later, when going out to feed the goats, Dove's sister, Lizzie, (and my only goat) had given birth to her first kid ever, a beautiful little girl! I was really excited that it was a girl, and that her coloring and markings were so much different than all the other kids'!

Lizzie is a much better mama than I thought she'd be

After much consideration (and 3 whole days) I decided to dub her Nessa!

Suffice it to say, we now have our hands full with a goat herd of 9, including our soon-to-be 3 goats to milk twice a day! :D  It was actually pretty cool, because every time one of our goats has kidded, they've done it early in the morning, so we don't get to watch. But Dove started kidding when Anna was feeding them, so we were able to hurry out there and witness the miracle of a new birth!! :)

(By the way, all these pictures were taken on Daniel's phone, so pardon the low quality)

I'm glad I finally am able to get some pictures up here, despite my camera-less state. :)

I hope this was an enjoyable post, and I'm off to NC! 

Little Flynn enjoying a nap. :)

Various and Sundries

Hey everybody! The picture right here has nothing to do with anything, only the fact that the lassie is doing something I wish I was doing, and looks prettier than I ever hope to be while doing it! :) This morning we are going to be planting our potatoes, and maybe onions. I love cutting the potatoes into chunks with eyes. I'm not sure why....Tomorrow we'll be planting peas. This afternoon we have choir, (and I hope volleyball after! :) and then this evening, we have a slight dilemma. It's Generation Joshua night, and the laundry fairies are down from NY. They are coming to dinner, and we may have to miss them! I would willingly stay home, but Dad is not sure if he wants us to stay at home since it is part of our school....it seems a shame to skip seeing people from NY!!! Last night I had to drive in the dark with Dad. We went to Dairy Queen, and Dad got icecream. I would have, but I had already had chocolate chip cookies here. Blast! I didn't do the drive-thru so well. It seemed really strange to talk to some little plastic box...oh well. At least I managed to stay on the road and avoid all the other cars.
(This is a very disconnected post by the way. That being said....) Sarah is now reading "Great Expectations" and I am reading "The Last of The Mohicans". I had stopped reading it, because of all the terribly bloody indian massacres and because half of it was written in French! ;) But it is a classic, and I do want to know whatever happens to those girls! Also, it is really interesting to me particularly, because the story takes place right where Uncle Lon and Aunt Heather live. All the places sound pretty familiar to me, and it is almost as fun as when I read "To Have And To Hold" that takes place right in our area and the area surrounding it. There is something so inspiring about imagining what our land looked like and felt like 250 years ago!
Anna found a nest of baby mice when moving around hay in her goatpen. She killed the mama and then cried about it after. The dad mouse went away, so she has kept the babies alive for two days now, feeding Daisy's milk out of a dropper. I'm telling you what, it is crazy what sorts of fragile animals are actually living in our home! We have two tanks of tadpoles that are in their second week of captivity! (They debuted in Daniel's music video) Well, I have to go make breakfast! See you guys later! -Rachel