Every evening when I go out at 6:00pm, I have four girls waiting for me on the hill.

Astra, Caroline, Joy, and Ava
Well, sometimes, I have a couple more girls who think they should get to come in too.

Haley
They are really annoying, especially in the morning before I go to work.

Dolly and Haley outside the door. They literally try to push their way in when I switch milking girls.
After we are done milking, they head back out to pasture to rejoin the rest of the herd.

Ava, Joy, Caroline, and Astra
I am currently working on filling the freezer with milk for next year’s bottle kid(s) if I need.

I only have a tiny bit of milk left from last year. When it’s gone, Pretzel will get weaned.

Pretzel running (and yelling at me) for her bottle.
Don’t worry, she’s plenty chunky.

And a couple of evenings, when she’s come running for her bottle, she’s already had milk on her mouth.

Pretzel
I think she and Hera have an arrangement so that Hera’s udder isn’t so full and Pretzel will try sucking anything that might give her milk.

Hera
Anyhow, I’m also still making a bit of mozzarella with the milk. That is for my mom. I’m still making soaps for sale. I’ve almost restocked everything, and I’ve added some new fragrances to replace the ones I can no longer get.

Sunflower Sandalwood is new.
I’m hoping the soap room will be fully up and ready for sales again by the first of October.

Most of the soaps curing
Of course, I have a lot of soap labels to make now.
Tags: Astra, Ava, bottle kid, Caroline, goat milk soap, Hera, Joy, milking, pretzel, soap making