NO PICTURE-----MISSING MY GIRLS!!!

My girls are still gone---Avalon is truly playing 'hard to get! I put Babe in with Rocky and they started 'rockin' IMMEDIATELY!! So Babe is a 'done deal.' Hopefully, Avalon will 'turn in to a
goat slut' and be back home tomorrow----I truly do miss my girls!!! Gosh---I really miss the milking---you know? Just 'girl time' that lasts for about 10 minutes--- sometimes, that's just all it takes--------10 minutes of quiet 'girl time' then everything is 'as it should be!'

WE FINALLY FINALLY GET TO BE 'IN LOVE'!!!

The day has finally came that I get to go spend the night with my FELLA, Rocky, said Avalon!!!
And Babe gets to go spend the night with 'The Buck in the Other Pasture'---yep, that's his name!!! The time has come for the girls to be 'IN LOVE.'-------
Hopefully, we will have a couple of kids the end of June, first of July.


Got to see some cute little goat kids jumping and bucking and playing around today. Saw my 'spotty girls' from last year that got to go live at Rocky's home, they are so cute and getting to be big spotty girls. Will go out tomorrow and pick up Avalon and Babe, hopefully the job shall be done!!! Av has been wanting to see Rocky for quite some time, so I've had the vision of her laying out in the pasture on her back with all 4 legs up in the air yelling at Rocky to "come and get me" BUT----------Avalon is a true lady, and played 'hard to get'!!!

Anyway-----how exciting can a day be???? I sure miss my girls!!!

CAN YOU POSSIBLY BE ANY CUTER???

Picked these two little guys up this morning, and don't they just look as 'cozy' as can be??? Mulefoot piggies. Our Huntley (boar) doesn't seem to be getting the job done and getting any babies on the ground so had to go out and search for some. Cute now, but in about nine months these guys will be in the FREEZER!!! BUT---they will have a wonderful, pampered life before they go in the FREEZER!!! Really enjoy those BBQ pork chops that are cut 1 1/2" thick - YEEEEEEEEUUUUUMMM! That sausage, that bacon, those hams and everything else!!!!!! Never (hopefully) will we have to purchase that yucky grey, thin, tasteless stuff they sell in the super market that is called pork. YUCK! Mulefoot Pork??? The OTHER RED MEAT!!!

MEET LOUIE---

Meet Louie--------We have two black Java Roosters, but Louie is our only 'Mottled Java' Rooster. Java chickens are a critically endangered breed, and one of the oldest breed of chickens dating back to the 1830's. YES, that long ago------I well remember the breed as a youngster back in the 1830's!!! There are fewer than 2,000 of them now and we have chosen to raise the Java because they are endangered, because they are a Heritage Breed, because they are a 'dual purpose' chicken (eggs, and meat), because they are gorgeous, gentle, superior foragers and just about as hardy as a chicken can be!!! We got the chicks last April. We were on a waiting list for a full year before getting them and have been well worth the wait. We have both black and mottled, will let the Mom's do some hatching and will put some eggs in the incubator as we plan on keeping these 'precious gems' going. They lay brown eggs, just started laying recently and doing a great job!!!

Sooooooooooooo-----you are probably wondering how Louie got his name???? If you have watched the movie 'Leap Year' you will know---if you have NOT watched the movie 'Leap Year' it is a MUST SEE!!! My new fav. chick flick, (get it? CHICK flick?) and you will know from wence Louie's name came!!! Not the best picture of Louie, will do better next time!!!

SWEET BABY---

Sweet Baby--------------You touched so many lives in such a short time. You were ever sooooo entertaining, 'laugh out loud' silly, sometimes a 'real pill' (but we quickly forget those times). You could run 'like the wind' mess up a freshly cleaned window pain 'IMMEDIATELY', but you had no clue, you just wanted to see what was happening on the other side -----and just look at that picture----you truly where part of the habitat----you just 'belonged' maybe only for a short time, but you truly did belong and you truly will be missed. I will shed a 'dear tear' and there are many that have and will. Sweet Dreams Sweet Baby---------------------------------------

TROUBLE AND WORRY!!!

Trouble, Trouble and Worry---Reminds me of a Traveler's Insurance Co. commercial, the one with the dog worrying about his bone. The animal and kid commercials are always the best. While I was doing chores this morning my daughter called on my cell phone and as we where chatting, I'm watching Mason #2 digging and digging in the ground without making any progress --------it finally dawned on me that he had buried his bone yesterday when the ground was thawed and he couldn't dig it up this morning because the ground was frozen!!! I dooooo believe he was very 'troubled' and very 'worried' about that bone!!! I have long known that 'chores' really are not 'chores' but a wonderful source of 'entertainment' and it was VERY entertaining this morning!!! Looks like Gus is offering Mason #2 support!

By the way----that homegrown peach cobbler with the homemade ice cream I had last nite was really yummy! Never did see Mason #2 with his bone today, maybe the ground will be thawed enough tomorrow for a retrieve!!!

DELIGHTFUL---DEVINE---DECADENT!!!

OHHHHHH MY!!! Sure would love to indulge!!!

Maybe I will just have some peach cobbler!!!