This Goat's Life

Well obviously baby sheep are not as cute as baby goats. But these come pretty close...

Everybody wants it. But not everybody wants to earn it. It is a lot of trouble earning respect. Unfortunately there is no other way to get ...

Whew, close call this morning. Atty was chasing a crow off the property - he does not allow crows to land in the pasture - and he ran full s...

Well, everybody here has a different style. The Soprano Family of LaManchas is bossy and grabby, of course, as we have discussed. The Nubian...

Miss Brandywine is doing better today and eating reasonably well. She has adopted the farmer as her baby, even though she sometimes still hu...

There are some things that the farmer never talks about because of the fear of jinxing. One of those things was the fact that in the seven y...

Wow, Lulu is kind of cool. There are lots of unexpected little things there that you would never find in a "real" bookstore. The f...

We are having a heat wave! We had four inches of snow last night but the temperature shot up to 35 degrees today and everyone is trying to s...

Next year, let someone else win the Goat of the Year contest. When you are on the cover of the farm calendar (i.e. Goat of the Year) nobody...

The horse trainers have a saying. The saying is, "accept any change for the better." It's because in nature people don't s...

Well, we have put our ark contruction on temporary hiatus, because today, after floods and hurricanes and wind and hail and the creek rising...

I hope the farmer forgets that idea of having "someone" learn to pull a goat cart. Look at this teeny-tiny little goat on YouTube...

The New Year is here and it's going to be a good one! Here are my resolutions: 1. Have fun. 2. Eat more. Since I am Goat-of-the-Year, I ...

I am putting together my year-end list since it is New Year's Eve. My favorite book of the year: "The Goat Lady," by Jane Breg...

I would like to thank everyone who voted for me! Votes came in from everywhere! From Colorado (thank you, Denver!), from Pennsylvania, from ...

Woops, there is a change in the G-O-T-Y voting. Get your goat-of-the-year votes in by tomorrow (Friday) afternoon. That's instead of Sat...

Well, back in the fall all the weather experts were predicting that we would have an "el nino" winter. The farmer's neighbor f...

Well I am not surprised to report that there have been a few complaints that a certain contestant who shall remain nameless (Scouty) is che...

Three large equines available for fence demolishing projects, board or wire fence, makes no difference. Very thorough. Photos of recent work...

They say tomorrow never comes, but today it did. No trees down from last night's little storm, power still on, and Scouty is doing much ...