Babies and Other Stuff

I think "baby season" is now over. The two boer goats (Sahasa and Cooper)I thought were bred (pregnant), apparently are not. I am a little disppointed, but those things do happen. Remember last year where only 2 of my dairy goats got bred. Life on the farm! The 8 babies we got this year are all doing fine - growing big! And I am getting a lot of milk from my dairy goats. Haven't had much time to experiment with cheese and am trying to get motivated to make soap.

Too many things going on in my life right now. My husband collapsed this past weekend at the New Richmond Easter Festival and we spent Easter weekend in the Cardilogy Unit at Mercy Anderson Hospital. He goes to his Cardiologist today and probably will have a ton of tests to find out what happened. He is OK - I think he looks very tired and pale. But, God will take care of him. I believe things happen for a reason. God wanted him to stick around here for a while, so let's get him fixed up!

We continue to have problems with our neighbor who seems determined to make our life as miserable as possible. Why do people do that? He has taken to throwing trash on our property and took a chain saw to one of our trees (definitely on our property). We called the police. When we met him, he told us that he did not want anything to do with us and was going to build a barrier between the two properties. Since that time, he has cut down almost every tree - so much for the barrier. If he doesn't want anything to do with us, then leave us alone. I do pray for him - that is all I can do.

The Easter Bunny did bring us something special this Easter (well, not the Easter Bunny exactly, more like my son Nathan). We now have a German Shepherd puppy named Nikki. Apparently, someone abandoned Nikki and a couple of Nathan's friends found her. They were going to take her to Dog Pound (where she would mostly like be put to sleep). Instead, Nikki is now sleeping under my chair. We needed another dog like . . . Oh well. What is one more animal!