Where we've been:

If you've been wondering, it was time to pay the rent for the blog, but I wanted to change who was keeping track of it. And there were details that kept not working out. Now it's all renewed for another year, and back up.

Tomorrow I go to Portland, and Saturday to Tampa. See some of you soon!

Just photos

And just a few photos that I wanted to share. It was a very cold but dry morning and some neat fog and ice crystals were all around.


From our Library


From the living room


Ice rose


Ice rope

And I just liked these in general.


Osage Orange Ice


Rosanna Oliva "I am ready to be petted"


Aahz the Buck "You may kiss my nose"

Misc:

"Logan, what are you looking at?"

"Wombat dung."

And I wonder why I ask sometimes.


Logan with kid goat


Bonding with two of Peaceh's kids


Kid who insists he needs to nest by fir trees.

Sheep and Goat report:

John reports that the 3rd newest baby goat, and the newest mama goat have both licked his face thoroughly tonight. Mama goat had triplets, one doe and two bucks. Doe picture below, once I find the camera.


All of Peach's kids, doing well


Peach's doe kid, before her brothers were born.

A second sheep lambed, so now we have Gamma's ewe lamb, and Ezri's uncatchable lamb, which outran John even though it was not yet even fully dry yet.


Gamma sheep with her ewe lamb


Another view of the same lamb


Ezri with her ram lamb (umblical cord not yet dry)


Ezri and her lamb bedded down for the night.

John said post pictures:

So here are the pictures of our goat babies so far this year:


One of Curry's kids


Both of Curry's kids

And there's a lamb born who is fleet footed and shy, and I'll try to get a picture of her later today, if the sheep are cooperative. I thought John had taken one already. :-)

Sick and Grumpy

Yes, I'm still sick. I'm in the running for longest cold in history I think! John says my cough (and Logan's) sounds like bronchitis to him. Thursday I talked to my doctor's office about a prescription I'd had from the local open-on-Sunday clinic, that was helping keep me from being completely miserable with congestion. They said yes, they'd ok a refill, no problem. So Friday I got the pharmacy to request one. No go. The twit I got on the phone at the doctors office said I'd better allow extra time since my pharmacy was evidently slow about asking for refills. Strangely enough, John, in the pharmacy to pick up the prescription along with Logan's puffer, could see it ready to go waiting for the OK from the doctor's office. Doctor's office seems to be staffed with screw-ups. I miss my Midwife!

Settling in to the house continues, slowly. I've managed to be sick pretty much since we officially moved in. No, I don't think there's a connection, except I'd be even more miserable if I were sick and living in the cabin, with it's lesser insulation and space.

Logan, has been sick, alternating with way full of energy. Of course. Plus her asthma puffer, which may or may not be making a difference, adds to her, ahem, spirited behavior.

We have begun kidding and lambing season. We have a pretty little ewe lamb on the ground, who was so full of energy that John couldn't catch her the first day he saw her. And a buck kid, who is cute at the moment, but since last years buck kids are still around being nuisances, doesn't impress me so much.

Amazing pictures:

They aren't mine. But go look. It's three separate links so that you can actually see them even if they aren't in that current blog anymore. And if you click on the pic itself, it will change to a larger version.

Old Indian Chief Sky

One Tree

Long Grass On Hillside

I'll post something soon. I didn't mean to vanish while I was sick.