Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ~Matthew 6:21~
We celebrated Mikah’s 8th birthday yesterday. He picked the menu. He said the day didn’t turn out quite as he expected. He had really hyped it up in his mind! The expectation of having a birthday isn’t quite the same as the reality of a birthday, where you’re special and pampered, yes, but nothing earth-shattering [...]
Our (actually, Jeff’s) weekend project is to trench from the pole barn to the well house for the new water line and pump circuit. A few bumps along the way. First, having to spend more time than we planned finding the current electrical line, an old sewer line, and current phone line. Yesterday, he dug [...]
Jeff walking along the rock wall he’s been building all summer. Naomi and Mikah climbing up some downed madrone branches. Jeff digging around power line and water line. Annie is ever the curious and social goat who loves to be where the action is. The kids dissembled some garden beds we attempted to use a [...]
I mentioned that we got a load of rocks the other day. We have gotten one more load since then, too. We will be getting more, too, we hope. We have retaining walls to build and we love the look of rocks. The goats love the rocks, too. They’re on them more often than not [...]
We had a heap of madrone stumps, dug out last fall during a work day exchange. This weekend, the same friend who helped Jeff take out the stumps came back with his fork lifts so they could move those stumps up away from the house and barn. Our friend had the brilliant idea to turn [...]
Jeff started out Saturday morning with the weed wacker, to trim our walking trails. He ran out of gas right by the pump-house and stopped in there to check on it. Found a leak! (Which he repaired on Sunday.) Since we are planning on updating our water system imminently anyway, he began work on that [...]
We know that are certain things that must be figured out. In the meantime, our little goats are joys! The first day the goats were scared and wouldn’t venture off into the tall grass much. In fact, they still don’t do that. But they don’t seem scared anymore. When the kids walk the trail on [...]
Our morning visitors… a mating pair of peacocks! Jeff heard them on Sunday evening, nearby to where he was in the woods. Then last night, he found out the sounds were from peacocks; they came within 5 feet of him while he was tying up loose ends on the fencing. He has that effect on [...]
We’re done enough with our fencing to bring our goats over here. They are all from our neighbor. She gave the kids eight goats as payment for all the work they’ve done for her. There are three babies and each baby’s momma, making six. And then two others — Annie, a one year old who [...]
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