What fun these last few weeks have been. Well, I guess that depends on who is telling the story. Fred’s eye surgery has gone well and he has been VERY busy running the whole farm. Phil helped the first week I was in the hospital and left on January 21, after conducting the greenhouse seminar. Christine arrived on January 20 and stayed until January 27. I came home from rehab on Tuesday. January 24 so she was here to help Fred and cook some great meals for all of us.
Fred has been handling everything since Christine left. All the while, lambs and then our Mini-Myotonics (miniature Tennessee Fainting Goats) were arriving. Christine left in the morning and I think the first goat kid was born later that day. So far there are eight kids, six bucklings and two doelings with three does yet to give birth. We are hoping for more females. All single births but these mommas are all small and it is there first time so I’m not at all surprised. The kids are healthy and bouncing around together all over the pasture. Fred has been taking pictures to bring in for me to see and identify for our records. Today I went out and saw them in the flesh for the first time. I got more photos and then the camera battery went out. Oh well, always something. What can I say, they are all just too cute.