It is all a Blur!

Last winter was a long and miserable one around here and we were really looking forward to spring. Well Spring has not been very nice to us either. Last weekind was the first time that I could leave the house in the morning without a coat. We have had cool weather and ALOT of rain! The Spring sales have been good so far (we are also in the auction business) and they are about to run me to death. This spring I have called sales in the Wind, Snow and Rain! I am ready for a nice, still and sunny day.

The goats have all finished kidding and we are in full swing milking, making cheese, yogurt and soap.

Speaking of soap I pulled a real stunt yesterday. I was going to split a batch of soap for two different fragerances. I usually soap in 9 pound batches. Well for some reason my memory failed me and I thought it was a 7 pound batch. I mixed all of the ingredients and got it to trace then seperated it into two batches weighing out 3 1/2 pounds and added my Fragerance. That is when things went south. The FO that I was using isn't supposed to acceralate but this stuff set up instantly! I quickly flopped it into the mold but it was already setting up.

I mixed the FO into the other 1/2 and poured it into the mold and then I realized that there was alot more soap in the 2nd half. So now I have 2 batches of screwed up soap. One with too much fragerance oil and one with not enough! Oh well live and learn, plus now we have alot of soap for us to use. lol.

If anybody needs some Monkey Farts soap with a real strong smell that is kind of cat crap yellow in color let me know. I can fix you up!

In the beginning

In the beginning I bought a couple of goats for brush and weed control. They were just some crossbred basic goats. I bred them to a Boer Billy that fall and in February the babies started arriving. Then I started thinking! (That is the dangerous part.) One of these Nannies had a decent udder so I decided to break her to milk.

We don't use alot of milk and a gallon from the store usually went bad before we would use it up, so I decided this was a great plan. I could milk whenever we needed milk for the house and the babies could keep her milked the rest of the time.

This was a good plan. ( I am sure that it was.)

As time went along I started making yogurt and cheese and soap and drinking more milk and I realized that I wasn't getting enough milk to keep up. That was easy enough to remedy, I bought another milk goat.

About this time my parents started getting milk from us so once again we were running short of milk, so I bought 3 more Nubians, then I bought another Nubian.

By now my wife had decided that I had gone completely over the edge. She wasn't sure that we needed the original goats, now we had more.

Over a period of time she came around to my way of thinking and decided that she liked the goats (most of them).