Sunday Round Up ( Jan. 24-30)

 Last year (like the Christmas before last) Hubs got a retro arcade plug and play game. Which has Pac Man on it. After Dad showed him a few ...

Crazy Melty

My heart was singing today. The sun was out. We hit + 5. Everything was melting. I was hopping town to town running errands and getting my w...

Sunday Round Up (Jan. 17-23)

Okay so I'm a day late with this one... But it was kind of an interesting week around here. * The weather finally broke, and we've s...

Freaky dog

The other night I was off to put the goats "to bed". It was already dark and I was actually kind of relieved when Maggie decided s...

Haybale jumping

Not such a hot idea! During the snow storms I've been bundling up Nathan like crazy and taking him with me to feed the goats, if the win...

spring? soon????

Look what arrived in the mail (Thursday) The chicken catalog from the hatchery we ordered from last year. I was so excited. Not really about...

A pattern and a confession

Last week I mentioned how I was going to sign up for the goat hypothermia class with Kathy at HMFF? The class was up and rolling as of Mond...

just one more website to get addicted to

The Canadian Goat Network is a newly created Socialgo network, with a layout much like facebook. With different forums, upcoming events, and...

Meet Your Maker

The event name made me laugh. Its an event where food producers and food buyers can find each other, put on by the Capital Region Local Food...

more whining

I'm sure about as tired of hearing about the nasty cold as I am living in it. But seriously its -27 C right now. With wind chill its -38...

chicken myth articles

Barbara Foreman is writing a series of articles entitled "7 myths about Urban Chickens" on the Mcmurray Hatchery Blog . In the fir...

ENOUGH!!!!

As soon as we managed to tunnel our way out of the snow, we were faced with an entirely new problem. The temps. have dropped drastically, wi...

Workshop sign up.

Oddly only days after I wrote the post about losing Larry to what I think was hypothermia. I got an e-mail from Kathy at Herbal Maid Fiber F...

some goat humor

see more funny videos I laughed so hard when I saw this picture I just had to share.

V is for Victory

At least it feels like a victory. I managed to get the entire driveway shoveled yesterday. By myself. Yes just me and a snow shovel. We stil...

The drifts are piling up.

Somewhere behind this drift is the goats. All Snug and warm I hope. But so much for all the tracks and path I laid down yesterday. *sigh* An...

Snow wall

I opened the front (mudroom door) to literally a wall of snow this morning That's my rubber boot front and center that comes up to my kn...

Back to the Drawing Board

All I have to say is….”Somebody LIED to me!!!!” So you may have guessed by the post More Goat issues . We had another traumatic goat problem...

Anyone surprised that Oil/Gas companies have no manners?

This is what greeted us at the end of the driveway bright and early January 1st. Apparently were ringing in the New Year with explosions. No...