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~~~Gardening—Step #1~~~

~~~Gardening—Step #1~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Maybe this isn’t Step #1…maybe researching & buying the seeds was….. Maybe the garden won’t happen this Spring….. …..but discing was a necessary next step….. …..and ground preparations….. I’ve figured out where I want the garden….. I already got the welded metal panels to (hopefully) deter the deer…the chickens and………….the goats….. Our friend Ralph came over with his wonderful/ancient tractor…with it’s wonderful/ancient accoutrements….. I thought he was just going to disc the ground…

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Goats In The Round Pen

Goats In The Round Pen

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** Like I said…..the errant goats are now contained in the round pen….. …..and we have a plan….. My older daughter just bought a used aluminum two-horse trailer….. It’s a gooseneck….. Her truck has a gooseneck ball-hitch in its bed already….. Where we need to take the goats would be too restrictive for my big trailer….. ….her’s will be speedy/nifty/& zippy….. Easy…

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A Tree Fell In The Forest…..

A Tree Fell In The Forest…..

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Well it did….. …..and was there a sound…..?….. Honestly…..I couldn’t say…..I missed the whole thing….. …..but I saw the aftermath….. Where fence-lines and falling trees are concerned….. …..there seems to be a magnetism….. …..if a tree’s going to flop over….. …..it’s going to aim for fencing any chance it gets….. …..and this tree had the chance…..and that’s exactly what it did….. This sort of issue needs to be addressed promptly…..maybe not completely….. …..but quickly….. …..the trunk over the fencing has…

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*****The Chillies*****

*****The Chillies*****

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~~~~~~~Happy Belated Ground Hog Day~~~~~~~ Punxsutawney Phil did indeed see his shadow….. …..sooooooo…..six more weeks of winter(?)…..(I guess)….. ~~~~~Punxsutawney Phil~~~~~ This has been a great winter to indulge in my semi-pyromania….. I’ve cleaned up the backyard…..and the front yard….. …..now I’ve started on the goat’s pasture….. This has all been a clean-up mission of two years of blown down stuff from all of the trees….. Unidentifiable mosses…Palmetto fronds…squirrel-decimated pinecones (just to get things rolling)…Spanish moss…just about anything I can get…

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~~~Giddy-Up~~~

~~~Giddy-Up~~~

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Well Giddy-Up and Get-A-Grip…..!….. It’s time to set this year’s pace and see where it leads….. I can embrace the zeppelin….. …..or….. …..I can start behaving myself again….. …..(I have to admit…..I am looking forward to a normal routine and diet…..) …..(it’s a fleeting thought…..I’ll try to stomp it out)….. …..(but it’s a necessary one)….. …..I don’t look at my past-holiday-behavior as binge-eating….. …..I look at it as extended-seasonal-enthusiastic-consumptive-appreciation….. See…..it’s all in the way you look at things….. …..there’s always…

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~~~Princess Sparkles Unicorn Horns—–(Part II)~~~

~~~Princess Sparkles Unicorn Horns—–(Part II)~~~

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We ultimately got the bitch goat in a box stall….. …..then armed with some directive information from Doctor Brigid (our goat veterinarian friend)….. …..(Doctor Brigid has a very creative and intelligent mind)…..(I like the off-beat tendencies and her ability to think outside the box…..and then subsequently leave the box in the dust on the side of the road)….. (who needs that stupid box anyway) …..and then after some quick YouTube searches….. …..(you can find anything on YouTube)….. …..we located a…

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***Princess Sparkles the Unicorn Goat***

***Princess Sparkles the Unicorn Goat***

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We have a very big Saanen doe….. …..she has long horns….. …..actually they are very long scur-horns….. *****Scurs Explained*** *****Fascinating Fascinators***** Everyone else (of the goat variety) on our farm have been disbudded at an early age….. …..so was she….. …..however…..excessive scurs grew back….. …..in addition….. …..this butt-head of a goat has learned how to use her horns to her advantage….. (…..and everyone else’s disadvantage…..) …..to put it succinctly….. …..she’s a calculating bitch….. …..a calculating big bitch with horns….. She…….doesn’t…

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*****WHAT…..!!!?!!!!…..Now There’s Gamma*****

*****WHAT…..!!!?!!!!…..Now There’s Gamma*****

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Tropical-Something Gamma is doing a twirl down around the Yucatan Peninsula….. *****Gamma—–You Little Devil***** Most of the tracks have it going WNW….. …..so far….. We appear to be motoring our way through the Greek alphabet….. What’s the name after Gamma?…… I’ll go check….. ***Apparently It’s Delta*** (I would’ve thought that Delta would come before Gamma…..but hey, this is the Greek alphabet) I like “Mu”….. …..but I don’t want to get that far into the alphabet to reach a Tropical System…

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~~~Disbudding~~~

~~~Disbudding~~~

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  It sounds like some sort of gardening chore, doesn’t it?… …..something to do with flowers or petals or roots… But no…..it’s not… It’s a goat-thing… Just about all goats get horns… They are born without horns (much easier to deliver that way)…..but then they quickly start growing… Disbudding is the permanent removal of the pre-horn caps on the kids… It also stops the horns from further growth… It’s not an event we look forward to… ***The Necessity Of Disbudding…

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Triplets…….Not Twins!

Triplets…….Not Twins!

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Well…..whoopsie….. Mistakes were made….. Aaauuuuggggghhhhhh!!! Over-sights happened….. It probably had something to do with the impending potential of being hit by lightening….. …..that and the goats’ abilities to hide their children….. Everything ultimately turned out all right…(how that happened…I have NO idea)….. (I really don’t know how…..(?)…..) …..BUT ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL….. …..BECAUSE….. …..the next day…..we found yet another “new”(?) singleton buckling…..(?) …..we found the little boy amongst some dead tree roots…..under a downed tree trunk… …..he was little…but…

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