We had a very sad weekend
On Friday, I noticed our baby goat, Nuevo, was getting an enlarged lower belly. I suspected a urinary calculi even though bladder stones are pretty rare in male goats so young. I called our...
Boy, do we go through the firewood when there’s a -50 windchill
The last two days, we've stuffed firewood in both the kitchen range and living room stoves all day and several times during the night.
Our HIGH yesterday was -13 and this morning there was a...
We were surprised to see a low of 5 degrees F on our weather...
The forecast was to be a high of 35 degrees F today, so when I woke up, I checked the weather station on our shelf, as I always do in the morning. But I...
It’s raining baby goats at our homestead
Last fall, I introduced our buck to our does, figuring we'd be having kids in early May, when the spring weather was getting nice. Well, two days ago, our oldest doe, Bella, surprised us...
Just what we needed — more snow!
We were just starting to get some thawing days when we got clipped by another 8 inches of snowfall. Nice and wet snow, too. For awhile I thought it was snowing chickens...white chickens! But...