Sunday Photo Update...

                I don’t even know where to begin today. For starters, I remembered it is Sunday, so I do have a photo update ready for you guys today… Normally during the week I am too busy to blog every little update (even when they would make a great story… like the first time a milked a goat…) But, sometimes I get behind schedule and never get around to it. So there will probably be quite a bit of material on this week’s photo update that I never even mentioned working on during the week.

                Like the before and after of the pen I got built for our two milking goats…

                And then there is the other pen we just got finished yesterday for the two baby billies and the one yearling Saanen…

                This is the Billy that we are going to let keep his nuts… apparently he comes from a good breeding line, and he isn’t related to any of the other Saanens either. Plus, doesn’t he just look like he’s a player for the Lady goats?

                Sometime earlier this week when we were getting the barn cleaned out, making room to build all of these goat pens, we had to pull the wagon out that had our outdoor furniture stored on it for the winter. Last summer I found these chairs and tables rotting away in the weeds and strewn about various areas of our property, and I decided to get them sanded down, cleaned up, and painted. I personally love the colors… very uplifting on sunny summer day. They are now out and ready for another season of use.

Last night my dad and I didn’t get back into the house –from milking the goats- until almost nine o’clock, and we had forgotten that we had taken three dozen eggs out of the refrigerator to bring up to room temperature earlier in the day in order to hard boil…  So we ended up boiling and peeling eggs until about eleven, and then we turned them into the most awesome pickled eggs ever!

My mom came home yesterday and had stopped on the farm supply store and bought six rhubarb roots on a whim, so I had to get those in the ground today… Which, I am a bit happy about because I am a huge rhubarb fan. I got a recipe sometime this winter for making a rhubarb-vodka cordial, and I have been waiting for months for our rhubarb to hurry up and get out of the ground so I could give it try. I’ll share the recipe if it is any good. Anyway, I thought you guys might want to see what a rhubarb root looks like…

And then what it looks like in the ground…

And then what it will look like in the future… (this picture is of one of the patches we have planted under the grapes.) 

Finally, I thought I’d give you a quick photo update of how big and healthy Feta is getting.

All in all, it has been a pretty good week around here. Lots of milk and eggs coming in, the garden is starting to come together, some of the earliest spring vegetables are starting to tease us and make me hungry for their freshness. This morning I made pancakes with milk fresh from the goats just an hour prior, eggs that came out of the chicken within the last day of so, and spelt flour that came from a local Michigan Amish farm… all topped with Maple syrup that our neighbors down the road made from scratch… What can I say? My life doesn’t suck!