Well, I think I'm ready for winter now. The goats are all situated, everything is picked up and cleaned up, and the does are all bred except for one. Somehow I missed her heat cycle this last time, even though I was watching her pretty closely. So, next time around she will get put in with a buck. It's probably a good thing she will be bred later. She seems to have her kids in the very early morning hours, which I miss most the time, so if it's in the middle of April, it will be warmer, and hopefully they won't freeze like the last ones did. I just barely saved the little boy, and the girl was already dead when I got out there. So I really don't want that to happen again!
Today was a beautiful sunny day in the upper 40's. I got all the gates into the hayshed re-done so they swing easily, then dehaired all afternoon. Now that the days are short, I have to quit dehairing at 4pm so I have time to do the chores before it gets dark. I can't start till noon, so it's short days for dehairing now. Good thing I'm almost done with outside orders! Then I can finally do my own! Yippee!!!
Tonight just before dark as I was filling water buckets, I watched the local Murder (flock) of Ravens, 36 of them! do their nightly fly-by. They have a rookery, or whatever you call the nesting grounds of ravens, over on the other side of the hill behind us somewhere. They always take a nightly group flight in a big circle around this area. Kind of eerie when they fly over enmasse like that. Especially when they call out occasionally. Spooky! Someday I'm going to go find their rookery and see what it looks like around there.
Well, I'm off to spin some more yarn and crochet some mitts for a customer. More as it happens....
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