I'm hoping to distract you, dear reader, from noticing that I have not posted anything new, despite my promise.  So here's some photos!  The weather here has alternated between spring-like (which means lots of mud!) to arctic-like (which means single-digit temps!).  The weird weather fluctuations have been rough on the kids.  The people haven't liked it much, either.

 

This little one is very friendly.  Natalie usually is, too.

 Sunbathing kids.  If you look carefully, you will see a children's playhouse in the background that we were forced to put into active duty in the goat shed when the temperatures dipped into the single digits with winds over 30 mph.

 

See the little red tongue?  I love that.

 

Quick!  Find the duck in the snow!

So did it work?  Have you forgotten all about my empty promises?  Stay tuned for further updates, but let's just say the timetable is fairly fluid.

What a difference a day makes!  As of this writing, 25 kids have been born here at Big Pink.  Sleep?  What's that, and why do I miss it so?

We have one little doeling who lives in the house for now.  She was weak this morning, so we scooped her up and now she's our bottle baby.  We will transition her to the great outdoors, of course, but for now she's here.  And she's really cute.  Frodo the Dog really likes her, too.  Too bad he can't be the one in charge of giving her the bottle.

So this is my birthday week, as I mentioned earlier.  With all the goats being born, I haven't had a lot of sleep.  So please keep that in mind when you look at this photo of my leftover cake.  I'm sleep-deprived, and I'm pretty sure that qualifies as a mental handicap.  Right?

The last few days have been a flurry of activity.  The first kids arrived on Monday morning and they just keep coming.  Six does have kidded so far, resulting in ten doelings and 3 bucklings.  Twenty-four more does are due at any time.  When I sleep, I dream about goats, goats, and more goats.

So that explains why I have been slow about putting up new pages.  You will notice, however, that I did put up a woodworking page.  I can cross that off my to-do list.  I love crossing  things of that list; it makes me feel productive. 

Today is my birthday.  Because Natalie's birthday occurs two days before mine (she's 12 this year!), the usual celebration for Mom is leftover cake.  I don't mind.

But this year is different.  Just look what I got for my birthday!  That's right, twin doelings born in the wee hours of the morning.  The first meat goat kids have hit the ground!  The next few weeks should be a hectic flurry of more kids being born. 

Before it gets really crazy around here, I will be adding new pages this week: A soap page, a For Sale page, and a woodworking page.  I think.  At least, that's my plan, Lord willing.