Just because

Two boys chilling on the Cadillac bed. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Visiting goats and goat visitors

Little goat boy is sporting a pink jeweled collar to go for a ride. 

I had promised all the newspaper folks that I would bring a kid for a visit— it was Bring Your Kid to Work Day yesterday! If you look close you can see Kathy, Larissa, and Tara reflected in the window with The Freeman's Journal behind them.

Little goat boy is supposed to be adopted by friend Dr Julie, so she will have the pleasure of naming him once he moves to the Neighsayer Farm. :)

And friend Roberta came by for a visit with the little ones on one of those nice warm days we had this week. Let's just say she was dressed too nicely and probably needed to do some laundry when she got home.

And the TFJ office might need a carpet cleaner.

At least the Kia was relatively unscathed.

Black dog and black chair :)

Sorry folks, I can't help being silly most of the time...

It's fairly unusual in mid-February to have a warm day that's nice enough to sit outside and watch the sun go down. It wasn't all that warm, and there was still plenty of snow that hadn't melted, but still.

Woody was not interested in hanging outside with Cyrus and me for the sunset celebration. He stayed inside for a nap on the Cadillac bed with his buddy Monkey.

More cold and probably more snow on the way, but we are all happy for the warm sunny days in between.

Black heads and black birds

When these 2 boys sleep next to each other, I see they have the same black on their handsome heads—both ears, part of the nose—it makes me smile. They are both about 14 years old. Woody's black parts are fading, and his brown parts are almost all gone. Willie looks young as ever. I guess cats don't fade...

I'm not ready for Part 4 of the Bird Buddy series, but it is starting to look like spring is on the way. New birds are joining in the fun. 

The starlings are back in force feeding on whatever goodies they can find on the ground now that the snow is melting.

And this Common Grackle found the feeder for the first time today. 

He scared off all the little birds, probably because he looks so scary with those yellow eyes!

Unfortunately, our lone squirrel, Steve, showed up at the feeder last week too. And he brought a friend. 

I am not happy about that!

Enough people asked the BB team to adjust the AI that IDs the birds so that it could ID their most common visitor as well. Pretty cool that they succeeded.

At least, so far, they are not my most common visitor.

Cold enough for ya?

Frigid and blustery—temps in the minus teens for the past 24 hours—thank heavens we have the heater out in the bigger goat barn.

Stella, the last possible pregnant doe, is still holding out. Not sure if she's got a kid in there or not.

It's supposed to make it all the way up to 40° tomorrow, so come on out for goat kisses, like Dr Julie did last week before we froze. She is still trying to figure out which 2 kids they are going to adopt.