Mother’s Day

I made my new moms happy.  I removed the panels in the barn and let them and their kids back into the main herd.

Antigone calling to her girl

Her daughter was ignoring her and playing on the stump

They did eventually make it out there.

I had to get them off the north paddock because it was way too small for that many goats.  They are much happier on the Back Forty where there’s so much more green stuff to eat.

Hera and Dusty

Aphrodite and Harmonia

Cupid and Elton

Even Dolly made it out to pasture.

And the kids are enjoying it too.

Angus

Thalia

It makes it a lot harder for me to keep track of all those kids though.  There are now 31 kids running around in the pasture with their moms.

Ending the Drought

We have had quite a bit of rain lately.  It’s hard to believe, but we’ve even had some flooding across the state.  It started with the severe weather and we had more storms.

It made for dramatic skies when the severe weather just missed us.

Antigone and her girl

The boys were wired with the stormy weather.

Other rounds were just nice thunder showers.

another 1/2 inch of rain (Frodo in the background)

Everything is looking nice and green.

strawberry blossoms

goats in pasture

I’m grateful my trees made it through last summer’s horrible drought.

Maybeline snacking on my lilacs

We’ve had a bit of sunshine in between the rains.

Skittles in a late afternoon sun.

There was another round of horrible storms Monday night that once again, went below the severe level before reaching us.    I did make sure everyone was safely in shelter.

Antigone was outside, but she did make it in during the storm.

We have been so lucky.  It gave us another four-tenths of an inch of rain.

The kids were all playing in the barn.

Even though they do the reading for the drought monitor on Tuesday morning for release on Thursday, we’ve even had more rain since then.  Tuesday evening saw a little thundershower that had some amazing clouds and then a beautiful rainbow!

I’m thrilled to say that across the state, the drought monitor released yesterday has shown much improvement.

And with the continued rain since Tuesday morning, I’m hoping that I will at least move up from “moderate” to “abnormally dry” by next Thursday.

Finally Introductions

I’ve mentioned names of some of the kids from this round, but I’ve not done a formal introductory post, so here they are.  The first two born were Chiffon’s Thalia and Ty.

Thalia

Ty

LilyAnn had her twins next:  Palomino (Mina) and Angus.

LilyAnn with Mina and Angus

Antigone’s girl really vexed me.  I couldn’t decided between Pistol or Sassy.  Finally, I settled on ????.

Sassy Pants Pistol (I honestly haven’t fully decided on her name, and since she’s a keeper, I’ll put more thought into it.)

Rosie was next.  Her two little red-headed kids are Reba and Rupert.

Rupert (behind) and Reba nursing

Ostara had her twins next.  They are Zeke and Zane.

Zane and Zeke

She was followed by her mom, Cupid having her twins: Sir Elton John (Elton) and Prince.

Sir Elton John and Prince

Penelope was next with her little wandering girl, Carmen.

Carmen

Aphrodite was the last of the girls I planned.  She of course, lost her buck, but she has a beautiful doe, Harmonia.

Harmonia

Then I had my four unplanned girls.  Venus started them off with her little girl, Tootsie Roll (Tootsie).

Tootsie

Hera was next.  Her twins are Dusty and Abe.

Hera with Abe and Dusty

Zinnia followed with her doe and buck: Silk and Stu.

Of course, Tansy finished things off in dramatic fashion with her little boy, Thunder.

Thunder

Welcome to the farm babies!