Sleepy sunny day with guest

Shout out from our guest, Miss Bonnie, to her mom, Miss Julie: 

"We know you had a lot of fun in Maine, but why did you have to tell them about my affinity for horse dookie? I love you anyway. And I miss you. Happy Birthday Mom! Pooch smooches, Miss B."

The Peters and their sleepy pets wish you a big happy as well.

Goodbye snow!

I love when the sun makes the creek glow.

It is not unusual for us to still have snow on the ground in March, in fact we had the biggest snowstorm since we've been up here on March 14, 2017, but after 2 days of warmth and sun, the beautiful brown grass is back again.

Stella and a curious newborn

The Husband has been outside being the farmer tending to his goats. With only a bit of help from me, we've been busy birthing babies. All of them (so far) have the half ears from their dad, a LaMancha, even though their moms all have big ears. About half of them also inherited dad's black color, although some of their moms are black and white like their kids.

The "Blood Moon" occurs when the sun, earth and moon are perfectly aligned and the earth's shadow turns the moon a very earthy red color. I didn't realize that it was only supposed to begin at 1 am. My favorite alarm clock, Jessie, woke me to go out at 12:30 am. I could not get back to sleep after letting her out, so I came out in my PJs to watch the eclipse, which didn't actually fully take place until almost 2:30 am.

None of the pictures showed the true colors of the blood moon, but it was fascinating to watch...until my fingers got too cold to take any more bad pics. Lots of pretty stars though!

1:53 am

2:22 am

Music and birds and kids

I went with the Hub to a bluegrassy kinda jam at Council Rock Brewery a week or so ago. Since I was not a jammer, I was pleased to have one of my Jersey cousins magically show up with her hub and 2 friends.

I was all set to post this (not great) pic of a red-winged blackbird 2 days ago. They showed up on the same day the green grass reappeared, and I wanted to celebrate the first signs of spring. Too late...the snow and ice and too much wind are back again.

Now for the good news—our first 2 kids were born this morning. As we borrowed Black Bart (a LaMancha buck) for only a few weeks, this was the first time that we could actually predict when the kidding would begin.

These 2 kids look just like their dad—mostly black with the little gopher ears of that breed. Our females are a mix of colors, a lot of them white like Rainbow here, and all of them have big ole goat ears. It will be interesting to see what the rest of the kids look like.