Rodeo Memories

I finally filled the memory card on my camera. I'm finally being forced to delete things off of there. Which means a few days of organiz...

More Goat issues

Right now were having more goat problems. BIG goat problems. But I'm really upset about it, I can't figure out what were doing wrong...

Larry Stinks

Okay so we had goats since August, and to be honest They smell like animals to me. Maybe I've adjusted my nose, but really I couldn'...

Because Santa doesn't deliver goats

As I mentioned in the previous post, we hit up the Sheep and Goat auction yesterday ME + Auction = B-A-D I could have come home with a hundr...

restocking the barn.

 It was the last Goat and Sheep auction of the year. Since we're desperate to move Romeo back out of the girls barn (where he's been...

Our Water

Our water test came out pretty good. The Well guy didn't do a potable drinking water test on site. but the quick analysis that he did do...

Well Water and Big Oil

This afternoon I'm waiting for the well guy. We were approached by an oil and gas company in September. They want to do 3 test seismic b...

Stupid Goat

We lost Linus Thursday night! I'm MAD! Stupid goat up and died on me! I thought we we're going to pull him through. I feel like he j...

I think were losing him

Tuesday night, when Linus came in the house. He was completely limp, and almost lifeless. We spent most of the night warming him up. He stay...

There is a goat in the house

There is a goat in the house, and not for fun. Calgary, AB was the second coldest place on earth today , right after the South Pole. Edmonto...

One of the benefits of the country

Yes, you have to drive everywhere. Even getting some milk involves loading everyone in the car to drive for at least 10 minutes one way. We ...

I've been banned

Yup, The whole time we have been here, Hubby has let me pretty much run loose on deciding what animals to add to our menagerie. It's not...

The Cat Came Back.

I so wish it was only a song. The Cat Came back... But it's not. Last winter. Right about this time in November actually we had a stray ...

Dr. LOVE

One of my goats ha been re-named, but its neither of the ones I was thinking about re-naming back in September . No. It's Romeo. Chris h...

and then I added something more to my plate.

You know that saying... “Behind every successful farmer is a wife that works in town .” I've decided to be both. But I haven'...

The monstrosity, I mean dog house.

The monstrosity Dog house I mentioned in the Wood butcher post . I thought I'd post a few pictures to show you just how big I was talki...

My Brother the Welder rocks!

So my brother is a welder. A very good one. In fact he or my Dad will send me pictures of his work and I'm always astounded at his skill...

Nate's room redo

Back in September, My in-laws took Nathan for almost a week. {Yes, I didn't get around to taking the after photos until now} My main pro...

da barn, da barn is finally done

The Boys barn. The project that I figured should take a week tops. And has now been dragged out..what??? Two months? Thanks to way more work...

A Birthday weekend for the Boy

 It's been an exciting weekend for everyone around here. Grandpa Zoom came up to stay, and help celebrate Nathan's 4th Birthday (whi...

One of those "take your breath away moments"

 These were taken at sunset off my front deck Wednesday night Some times I just have to stop and marvel at the beauty I'm surrounded by ...

I froze today

Like thought I might die froze. It was about -2C outside. It didn't seem all that cold with the sun shining. So I thought I'd take a...

The Wood Butcher was at it again

It's not very nice, but I refer to my Hubby as the WOOD BUTCHER. He's certainly not a wood worker. Case in point. Last year I told h...

Sometimes being one of the herd isn't such a good deal

We learned some interesting, and kind of hard (well hard on our son) lessons about Goat Herd Behavior in the last month or so. In case you d...

The Hay finally arrived!

Yeah! Our goats won't starve this winter. We finally got 5 huge bales of hay. and for only $10 more per bale they delivered it. Saving u...

Interesting Goat Links

I know my goat obsession is getting a little out of hand...Just for fun I've been searching around webland looking up different goat rel...

My top 5 problems with chicks

It's been just over a month since our chickens all went to their final resting place. Our freezer. And to be quite honest I'm not re...

The additional pen

A couple days ago I mentioned the new fence that we got built this month. Although the only picture I could find in our archives was taken t...

I'm a Little Cranky

I was all set. My Dad had even agreed to come up for the weekend and babysit the boys. I was heading to Edmonton for the weekend of November...

Goat-a-rific

 One of my best friends came to visit us in early October. It was "Uncle Noel's" first time up here, and he quickly fell in lo...