Babies due April 28th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These 2 angels were hooting and holloring this morning for some goat love (I guess Lamancha did not get pregnant the first trip!) so we packed them in and headed to the farm.  Lamancha (Buttercup) was bread with a black and white Lamancha and the sannen/alpine (Cupcake) was bread with a colorful alpine buck yearling.  The due date give or take a week is April 28th.  We are very excited for our grand'kids'.  I'm thinking a baby shower around April Fools would be perfect!

Lamancha Success!

I think things went well for Lamancha (Buttercup) and this spring (in 5 months) we will be proud goat grandparents!  I'm hoping for girls so I can keep them :)  Cricket and Cupcake were not as enthusiastic, so we will have to bring them back to the farm when they are feeling a little more frisky.

Today was a wet and nasty day but we got things done and now I'm going to head out to take one of my nieces and one of my nephews to west african drumming in Willimantic, CT.  It is so much fun, I can't say enough about it!

This weekend I will be going to a local farm to look into adopting some laying hens to keep the store in stock with eggs (we just got eggs in if anyone is looking).  At the end of the weekend I will head to another farm in eastern Connecticut to check out some silkies and frizzles (these are hens) for my fancy collection!

It's a good life!

Be well!

We are closing early today!

We are closing our doors at 3:30pm today in order to bring our 'girls' to a larger farm to meet the fathers of what we hope will be precious kids this spring!  We are very excited and nervous!  I will let you know how it goes!  Be well!

April 22, 2010

I'm reminded of 'Christina Katerina and the Box' looking at the goats in their pen.  It is one of my favorite childhood books that my mother MUST know by heart we read it so often.  Christina's parents got a refridgerator and Christina got the box and that box transitioned from one fun thing to the other as her and her companion made forts and castles and ships and finally a dance floor that washed away.  First the goat pen was shelving for plants, then it was made into the ceiling for the goat pen, then it will be the playground for the Angora's.  Its all fun! 

I'm typing this as the angoras run around their current playpen which is the lower bunkbed for the kids covered in plastic and an animal blanket.  They will soon be too big for this and will be ready to move to the basement.  Now I say 'basement' and I imagine people are like - yuck - an old damp cold basement!  But our house is built into a hill and the basement will be perfect in the summer with the cement keeping the air cool while the enormous windows bring in the days light.  In the winter it stays about 65 degrees with a wood stove and plenty of sun.

Well, I've got to put the bunnies back, let the dogs out for one last run, give the goats one last bottle before bedtime, and fill the cat's food dish one last time before bed so she doesn't wake me up in the middle of the night!  My niece said I should time myself in my chores and see how fast I can get them done.  I told her I kind of like how long it takes, you can't rush animals - they've got nowhere to be!  It is nice to kind of take it slow every once in a while :)  Be well!

Beltane Farm!

My first featured vendor of the night is Beltane Farms!!!! The nicest people you'll ever meet! Go to http://www.beltanefarm.com/ to learn more about thier farm. They make the best cheese and the VERY best yogurt I have ever tasted! I mix thier yogurt in the morning with some maple syrup and homemade granola and it ...is HEAVEN on earth! Check them out on the internet and in our store!!!! Grand opening March 27, 2010!!!!!