Please meet Oreo and Penny! NO we did not name them (otherwise we would not have recycled names!) And yes! their ears are supposed to look that way–they are the most laid-back sweet girls ever! Soon they will provide us with cheese and soap and many entertaining posts for ye olde blog. (current post notwithstanding)
OH-just in case you have been missing Buttermilk lately-let me share what he has been up too:
yup! corrupting the farm-cats and committing laundruss interuptuss-and yes-that IS a basket of socks waiting to be paired off–(matchmaker matchmaker make me a match)
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September 1, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Mary
These goat don’t look very “with kid.” How are you getting that milk?
September 1, 2009 at 9:35 pm
notsosahm
Oh my gosh, you have so many animals! I love it though
My oldest daughter would be in heaven if she could live with all those animals!
September 1, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Beyond Bluestockings
Hmmm. Goats.
Not quite as cute as the sheep, but cheese and soap are good. Is the dairy cow being dairy-ish? You can’t make cheese there, or you just like the
smelltaste of goat’s cheese? (I’m thinking of “Heidi Grows Up” where she goes to boarding school with her cheese. Oh. And the one time I tried to make my family eat it.)September 2, 2009 at 6:16 am
dandelionmom
Mary–We will have them bred in December-if we did it now we would be milking in sub-zero weather (and it would be really hard on the kids (the goats ones too))
notso- we get a lot of that–had 6-7 different visits for city kids to get a farm-fix this year. The funny part is most of them came to see the big animals etc and spent the whole time playing with a cat!
BB!–the soft creamy cheese with a bit of tang but not too much? Our cow IS dairyish-but she is a skim-milk cow-very low on the cream factor so we mostly just shake it back in and drink it-the very creamiest chesses are made from goat milk or um cream LOL I am still actually buying butter-we get more milk than we can drink but only a little cream. PLUS these goats are hubby’s FAV! He has wanted this breed since our first goats (that I picked) were such a disapointment.
September 2, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Mary
What breed are they? I thought goats were goats. I’m glad to know the plans for these gals in the family department. I wonder what month it is warm enough up there for the kids. July?
September 3, 2009 at 6:45 am
dandelionmom
They are Lamancha goats and we are shooting for April…although if you look at this year July was kinda cold too…not many really hot days and NO “heat wave” at all this year—I have already had to use willpower to avoid turning on the furnace so early in the year!
September 3, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Mary
You would never believe that, but me too. In fact at the conference in July there were people turning on the heat in their hotel rooms and it didn’t seem crazy. It has been a crazy cool year. I keep saying that I think we are living in Minnesota, but I can’t imagine what Minnesota must be like.
April kids. Lamancha goats. Such interesting things at the Dandelionend.
September 4, 2009 at 10:55 am
Tami
It is so fun to live a vicarious farm life through your blog. I love the adventures, but am not sure I would enjoy dealing with all the poop on the farm. Then there is the no neighbor thing, very good sometimes. . .but when you have a billion words a day to get out. . .it may be a bit lonely for me. I so enjoy the cul-de-sac chats with neighbors. I sometimes think, when I grow up I’d like to be more like you. What a fabulous childhood your kiddos are experiencing.