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Not Another Fencing Post

Not Another Fencing Post

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* It’s time for fence repair again….. Really…what am I saying?….. It’s Always That Time Of Year….. I swear there’s planned obsolescence where pasture fencing materials are concerned….. Or maybe it’s just our conniving goats or the big-assed draft horses who we’re trying to contain….. But it’s always a farm project that’s on top of the list….. The elements and the containee’s are against us….. Pressure treated wood posts don’t seem to last as…

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*Preparing For Clover & Beau*

*Preparing For Clover & Beau*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We’ve picked up our piggies….. …..The KuneKune Collection has arrived!….. Our pig pens needed some touch-ups…(mostly where the goats had bashed or stood on them)…(goats are predictably destructive little items aren’t they?)….. Remember my post on “the Gateway Goat”?….. *****(The Gateway Goat)***** Don’t fall for that first “Gateway Goat”!….. …..unless you’re ready for a lifetime of being outsmarted & made to feel foolish by capricious caprines….. …..it’s their job…and they’re very good at it……..

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*Small Farm Problems*

*Small Farm Problems*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Is this a problem for us…(or a boon for Trooper?)….. …..(you decide)….. There are so many problems that can and do occur in rural life….. …..things that begin as mini-oddities…flicker into a tiny awareness….. …..flourish quickly into healthy problems…(which can no longer be over-looked)….. …..and in less than a nano-second….. …..they can become world-altering disasters….. Such is a rural life in sunny sub-tropical Florida….. I’m sure all of my friends out there with…

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***The Innocent Feed Bucket***

***The Innocent Feed Bucket***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** This might be a boring post….. Possibly….. But little problems can…(and quite often…do)…become bigger issues…when they aren’t given enough attention….. In my last post…I mentioned the feed bucket handle that had originally injured Brave’s left bottom eyelid….. *****(Equine Eye Injuries)***** I thought I might illustrate what I was talking about in this post….. We use large/flat-sided buckets of various sizes to transport & feed the various animals….. …..sounds benign…doesn’t it?….. …..not so much……..

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~Daughter versus Fence~

~Daughter versus Fence~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** The goat herd has been culled down to just six….. …..Trooper is still being kept separate from the girls…for the time being….. But the girls….. …..are characteristic-ably running amok….. It’s just what goats do….. They plot…they plan…they scheme…it’s their primary focus in life….. My older daughter has taken on a solitary/stoic task of correcting and finishing an important fence-line….. …..the goat fencing….. …..it was started months ago….. …..but so many things got in…

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~~~The Kumquat Festival~~~

~~~The Kumquat Festival~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I missed it…(sigh)….. Suffice to say…it’s a celebration of Kumquats….. It’s a fun/local Agro-Festival celebrating the fruit…(it’s quite the local industry)….. I like the name………….Kumquat…………. Say that five times fast….. I might add it to my list of fun words I like saying…(I like umlaut too)….. …..(Iditarod…Saponification…Onomatopoeia…and Nixtamalization)….. I think I’ll add Kumquat on a trial basis….. A fellow dinosaur…and Athletic Trainer friend of mine dropped by for some eggs over the weekend……..

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Goat Meat

Goat Meat

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** …..Goat Meat…It’s What’s For Dinner….. Like I’ve said before…this ain’t no petting zoo….. We recently had to cull-down the pig numbers on our little farm…along with the excess quantity of goats….. And…like I’ve said before…culling is a lop-sided/unfair situation for the boys….. Farm stock is inherently matriarchal…and predominantly female….. …..only the best boys are kept intact (that word sounds benign…but the process it’s alluding to is brutal)…… …..Ben and Brave and Guillaume and…

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***Making Feta Cheese***

***Making Feta Cheese***

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*******Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel******* I promised to make some cheese for a friend….. …..her husband is of Greek descent…… In the past…..I’ve been successful at making feta cheese out of goat milk….. I used to crank it out on a regular basis….. …..(I don’t personally like feta)…..(it’s just too salty for me)….. But I’ve got all the bells and whistles that are necessary for making this type of cheese….. *****Here’s a memory***** …..our…

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~~~The Smooth-Coated Terriers~~~

~~~The Smooth-Coated Terriers~~~

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*******Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel******* Like I said earlier…..I raised my two daughters like they were puppies….. To this day…..I refer to them as my smooth-coated terriers….. …..(those of you who have had terriers know what I mean)….. …..(terriers are only different from us because of their lack of opposable-thumbs)….. …..(they’re smarter than a lot of people I’ve met)….. I think my kiddos turned out pretty okay….. I didn’t resort to books or guru…

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~~~~~Old Goats~~~~~

~~~~~Old Goats~~~~~

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It’s inevitable….. Sooner or later….. We all become Old Goats….. …..it’s important to get comfortable with the whole concept of aging….. Alanna is my older daughter’s old Saanen doe….. They did a lot of shows together….. I don’t even know how old Alanna is now….. …..but I know my daughter hasn’t shown a dairy goat in a long…..long time….. …..so that makes Alanna…..ancient….. She’s creaky when she walks….. …..I don’t think her vision is very good….. …..she’s got a droopy…

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