Farmer Life 168

 Pharaoh is such a gorgeous cat! Now it's time for the rest of the pictures from last weekend.  This post will focus on Jasper and his herd, but it will also have pictures of the cats and one of Jackal in it too. I don't have many pictures of Jasper's crew because frankly they are disgusting!!!!  All of that nastiness on Big Mamma's face and body is molasses from that gross protein tub. I can't wait for them to finish it so they can switch to the bucket kind which doesn't get as messy.  Part of the problem is Jasper's beard gets in it and then he rubs all over the does.  Don't worry the pink is not blood, that's from his marking harness. We got Big Mamma, Dottie and LeeAnn from one of hubby's coworkers on October 9th.  They are all tame, but have varying degrees of friendliness.  Big Mamma is in the middle.  She can be a bit skittish and doesn't like to be restrained (and weighing almost two hundred pounds you can't really restrain her ag...

 I just wanted to share some random updates. Tongue! Hubby won't let me have a hedgehog so I got Jackal a stuffed one.  He loves it! Jackal is doing well.  He has lost 7 pounds in the last six months which is a really good thing.  It is difficult getting weight off of dogs, especially older dogs, but a pound a month isn't that bad.  A pound of extra weight on a dog is like ten pounds on a human.  You can tell he feels so much better.  I'm glad my grandparents are finally taking me seriously and stopped feeding him. He has fatty tumors popping up in several places.  It scares me because one is pretty big.  There is nothing we can do about them though.  It just makes me realize how old he is and scares me thinking how little time he has left in the grand scheme of things.  He turns ten in January.  I can't believe he's almost ten!  Where does the time go?  I'm enjoying every second I have with him.  He was so lonel...

 Garnet has such a photogenic face. Here are some more pictures from last weekend.  This time I'll be focusing on the Boers (percentage) that are out in the horse pasture.  They spend most of their time eating.... It's fun watching them climb trees and contort themselves to reach leaves up in the lower branches of the trees.  The kids are fun to take pictures of because they play around more.  This is Tanzanite and her brother Taz below.  His expression is hilarious. Their parents are Jasper and Topaz.  Both kids are super friendly like their parents.  They both love being petted and scratched.  I like Taz's markings. It was so cute when Topaz settled down for a nap or to chew her cud.  Taz had gotten into a nest of fire ants and his leg was hurting, so he kept propping it on her back to chew on it.  I felt so bad for him.  They eventually learn to avoid the ants.  In the above picture Topaz started using her horn to scrat...

After ten years I finally had to say goodbye to my fifteen year old Rodeo!  I'd been driving this car since my early twenties.  In fact it was only the third car I'd ever had.  My first car was an 80 something Chevy Celebrity which I only had for a year or so and my second car was an old, beat up crappy Pontiac Grand Am that I had for around four years.  I kept it after I got the Rodeo and hubby drove it for a while before he traded it in for the HHR he has now. So I'd been driving the Rodeo for ten years.  It never bothered me how outdated it was.  Heck it had a cassette player that didn't even work the entire time I owned it!!  The main thing that bothered me was the blower motor was going out so even though the heat/air worked it didn't blow air unless I kicked the motor under the dash on the passenger side which didn't always work, so that meant lots of trips to work shivering.  We got a new blower motor, but didn't have time to replace it....

 This is my new favorite picture.  I love Daniel!! I took two hundred photos this weekend (can't beat such nice weather hehe) and after going through them there are close to seventy that I want to share.  That is way too many for one post so I'm going to split them up and make multiple posts.  The first post will focus on the Myotonics (plus Amethyst because she's 50% Myotonic and 50% Boer, not to mention she's in the same pen with them).  I also kind of want to tell you guys more about their individual personalities since there are so many new additions you might not know very much about them.  Or if you're a new reader you might not know any of them very well. Note:  The blue on Amethyst is marker from Daniel's marking harness. Amethyst is our first baby that we've bred with this group of goats (we used to raise goats about a decade ago).  She was born February 4th this year so she's nine months old.  She is super friendly since we've been ...