Well......yesterday was kind of a sad day at our place. We sold off the horses. :(

I'm not really sure why I feel so sad about it. Fargo (the gelding) was sure a pain in the butt! He would bite my goats and that would really upset me. He would wreck havoc anytime that we were trying to do anything with the other animals on the place. He would pick up the baby calves by their necks. He was just a general pain but Etta (the filly) was a sweet little thing (even if she did tend to follow Fargo's lead).

Anyway, the people who got them sure got some nice horses.......

Well.....it has been a few days since our last blog so here is a quick update.

GARDENS - The gardens are not doing so well. It seems that we have a little (big) problem with our soil. The plants get up so big and quit or they "start" putting on fruit and then quit! We are working to make the corrections to the soil, but it doesn't look like it is going to be a quick fix...this may actually be a long term issue. What ever it is with the soil it seems to be great for broccoli but not much of anything else. We will probably have some produce for market in a few weeks, but that is not for certain. Right now, I am just canning what we are able to get out of the gardens. :(

GOATS - The goats are doing well for the most part. We got two new little doelings and they are doing fine. Cute little things. :) All of the other babies are doing well too.

We have moved the milkers from twice a day milking to once a day milking. They aren't liking it very much but right now, that is the best situation for us.

We avoided a near disaster with our yearling buck, Norman, yesterday. It appears that he had urinary calculi but we think the we got the problem diverted in a timely manner and he seems to be doing fine now. A big thanks to my brother and my wonderful husband for their help with this.

COWS - The cows are doing fine. We were trying to work them yesterday so that they could be moved to the rented pasture. The horses through a glitch in that! As soon as we started trying to get the cows up, the horses started running the cows and caused major havock with the whole bunch! We were only able to actually get 1 cow and her calf worked.

HORSES - Horses STINK! See cows for reasoning on this determination.

FAMILY - The family is doing great! We had a big family dinner this past weekend. We sadly had 3 of the neices/nephew who were not able to attend, but everyone that was there seemed to have a good time. It is always great to get the whole family together!