Now I might be posting more regularly. The goats are all doing well. There were nine kids born this year, only three of which are bucklings, now wethers. The only thing is, the buck I got has wattles, which I didn't see in the pictures I saw of him. (I bought him by the pictures, not seeing him in person first) So now 8 of the kids have wattles. I don't really like those, I like clean necked goats. We'll see if they "grow" on me or not. They don't go against any conformation ratings in the cashmere goat association listing so at least it's not a problem if I were to start showing the goats again. Which probably won't happen anyway. I just need to get over my aversion to the wattles.
This has been an interesting year so far. I'm done hosting hipcamp, 7 years was a good run. Now I want to do something different. With more neighbors up here, the joy of hosting has left. On to bigger, better things...
The garden is starting to produce really well. Got a late start planting, but it seems the plants know when to put on their fruit no matter what their size. The pea plants are tiny little things compared to ones in the past, but they are putting on lots of pea pods. We did get a good cauliflower crop, asparagus was plentiful, and the green beans are now coming on. We are even getting strawberries from June bearing plants now, and it's almost the end of August! The carrots are getting bigger. I finally did a good job of thinning them this year, so am looking forward to some good sized carrots in another month. Hopefully nice straight ones, not strangely twisted, gnarly things.
My old computer crashed, so this new one doesn't have a single photo on it yet to upload onto here. Soon I will get some transferred. I've gotten away from an online presence the last couple of years. Now I think I might get back into it a bit.
Weaving is fun, I've been making a few things. I have a huge wool spinning commission I'm working on. 14 sheep's worth of wool. That is taking a while to do, what with everything else I've got going on around here. It's easy spinning, so it's fun to do anyway. I did tell the guy that it was going to take months and months to do, and he was okay with that. I am going to attempt to have it all done by the end of this year. If not all, most of it anyway. Then I will have it all done by March for sure, unless something drastic happens.
Rocky, the LGD is doing well on his own. He's going to be 9 years old in October! Where did that time go? Seems he was just a pup not that long ago. Since we have neighbors on three sides now, the predator load has gone down a lot. They don't come in close to our place much any more.
Well, next post will have photos, I promise, and it won't be 6 months down the road either. Hope everyone is doing well.
