We moved in. We finally have a place to call home. This herd started out with 6 goats. Mocha, Mazy, Viola, Raelynn, Brain & Thomas that we picked out at Heather & Luke's. (These would not be the last to come from there...along with a friendship) The girls lived in half of a 2-stall barn, while the boys lived in the old pig pen. A couple months later we added Tweed. The barn was getting full so things got shifted around so everyone had a comfy place. A calf hutch was gifted to

I will start by apologizing for not being here for way too many months. I can't really give you a definite answer as to what I've been doing with all my time. So, I do know that a bunch of the time went to baking. Cookies, bread, rolls & deliciousness. Some of the time went to the goats for various reasons such as feeding, general care, breedings & just plain hanging out with them & taking selfies. Some other time went to homeschooling with my teenagers that want to be more i

April showers bring May flowers. What do May flowers bring? Pilgrims! Sorry. That's an old joke I was told in school. Around here April showers bring May showers that bring water-logged hay fields that have 3 foot tall grasses that can't be made into hay. So...now what? Let the goats eat the grasses! The goats bawl & complain to go out to the pastures. It doesn't matter that they just got grain & hay. They NEED that green herbage. Goats are by nature browsers. They love bushe

We are in the final countdown!! I just told Mazy that she just needs to hold on to her kids for only 9 more days. She's not due until the 16th, but she doesn't need to wait that long. I can't wait that long. With kidding season right around the corner, I am trying to get my affairs in order. I have ordered & received extra towels, id bands, vaccines, nipples ( in case I have to bottle-feed any kids), Tattoo letters, a dis-budding iron & extra minerals. I'm trying to think abo

I've always been a curious human. forever seeking answers & new information. If there was an answer that I didn't approve or deem good enough, i sought other sources until I felt that subject had been exhausted. To this very minute, I am still learning. These days my education consists mostly about goats, farming, marketing, homeschooling, cooking & maybe accounting. As this farming venture is coming into our 2nd kidding season, I find myself contemplating what I'm going to d

So, the last couple of days I haven't written anything. What have I been doing? Friday, my son had a doctor's appointment. We did some grocery shopping, had a lunch date & got our afternoon chores done in time to clean up the house for supper guests. They brought supper! We had a great time of fellowshipping, laughing & daydreaming over seed catalogues. Saturday was sorta a free-for-all. The boys did some morning rabbit hunting with some friends. I did some odds & ends around

It seems that I have developed a sinus infection from some moldy hay that I procured a couple of weeks ago. I have also developed the ability to get snot from my sinuses onto my eye via my tear duct. Gross, huh? With this new found talent, I have found myself with some sort of eye infection in my right eye. Special. I did see something really special this morning, before my eye started to get goopy. It was Shiori & her daughter, Sunshine, snuggled together. It's the picture a

The daylight is growing shorter. The air is getting colder. Snow flurries herald the winter solstice. Firewood is being chopped, stacked & burnt. The farm had an odorous, musky scent. Sounds of blubbering & bawling were heard constantly day & night. Less & less milk daily. What does this all mean? Things are winding down here at The Two Nickels Farm. We are done with breeding season, I think. We managed to get 12 does bred to 5 different bucks. We are expecting kids the end o

I am not a summer person. I really, really don't like the heat & humidity of summer. I only tolerate it because I love fresh veggies & fruit, & I know the plants need the heat to grow. It's like that weird question you get asked as a child, "If you were a vegetable, what kind would you be?" Ever get asked that question? Just me? Okay. Well, I would be a cool weather crop like spinach. Spinach loves cooler temps & dies off when the heat becomes too much for it to bear. You can

I am sweaty. All the time. Because I am sweaty, I attract dust. Because it hasn't rained more than a few drops here & there, there is dust. Dust is attracted to sweat. It's a physics thing apparently. I sweat standing outside without doing anything but breathing. I sweat doing morning chores. Morning chores involve hay. Hay loves to stick to sweat. That is not a happy feeling. It's irritating. It's not that I am so delicate that I break a sweat just walking to the barn. I don

The goats are a big part of The Two Nickels Farm. Life here sorta revolves around the girls. Feeding time, milking time, kidding time & snack time. Okay, the last one is for me. I like to spoil my girls with a snack. What girl doesn't like a mid afternoon snack? This time of year it's greens, pine tree boughs, winter squash, craisins & raisins. Ahem. I thought it would be nice to introduce you to the girls while we are wating for them to start kidding, having babies. (I need

The end of January doesn't conjure up idlylic scenes of farming. There is no hoeing weeds in the garden. No making hay. No little baby chicks peeping. No milking. No sweating in the warm golden sun that seems like it lasts all day. No watching captivating sunsets to the chorus of crickets. There is none of that happening right now on the farm. Right now the chores consist of hauling water from the kitchen because the outside water spigots are turned off so they don't freeze.