Hello all. I created this blog so long ago and am just now getting around to attempting to post. We have been busy bees this year.

This year we finished the barn which doubles as a dog kennel and storage and clean area inside for processing our own meat. Well, finished means the walls are all up. Ha! No sink or shelving or counters yet. The dogs are very happy in there new kennels tho.

We already had about 20 chickens and some guinea hens and we decided to order Americanas, Rhode Islands and a few more Barred Rocks this year adding about 30 more to our lot. The guineas wanted in on this and decided to give us 10 babies and what great timing they had, the babies were hatching the day our new chick shipment arrived. : )

We purchased 2 young female goats in June just before our vacation. When we returned home we had 4 goats. No, no one had babies, my mother-in-law gave us hers that she had just gotten a few months prior because she thought they would be happier in our new fenced lot with our new goats. Whew! We went from none to 4 and still were not and are not quite certain what we are doing. Unfortunately, that proved to be really bad since we lost one of our sweet little ones just a couple weeks later. Luckily (or unluckily) we learned through the process of loosing her what went wrong and what to do right in order to save her sister that began to show the same illness.

We are currently in the middle of gardening and canning season and we are so tired some days from all the fun to be had getting the food processed. My husband and I are still both working full time and when we get home from work we start working at home and don't stop until bedtime. Luckily I am on summer break right now from my college courses and the boys are a huge help while they are out of school as well. The boys love this and hate this as they will tell ya. : ) They love it more when they have time to play their XBOX (of course).

I will try to keep posting with what we learn with the goats as we go as well as our many other adventures.