This Goat's Life

Well, there was a ruckus this afternoon. I laughed when I saw it. The first fresheners in the down-below shack pasture are allowed to go out...

There have been some complaints that my blog has not had enough pictures and posts lately, as if I have nothing else to do. For those who ma...

Penrose, the farmer's favorite Toggenburg, comes from a long long line of Swiss philosophers. As you can probably tell from this photo, ...

One set of baby goats used the old farm truck as their baby stall this year. They were called the F-150s. In this picture, Sammy and Leo, tw...

...is that they are so unfriendly and standoffish. You cannot get them to pay any attention to you. It's too bad.

Our protector Atty is considered a very fearsome dog by people who do not know him. That is because he is about as big as a Volkswagen. Here...

Agnes, aka Aggie Baggy, did very well in her first kidding, except for the timing. The farmer has posted a schedule of acceptable kidding ti...

The long dark night of the mini-Nubians is about to begin. Aggie the mini-Nubian, Boo's unexpectedly normal daughter, is in the red zone...

I have been upgraded from the shed to the big barn as befits a goat of my stature. This is because I have the sweetest milk and I am now the...

Tux, Top Hat, and Turkish Delight, Mel's trouble-seeking triplets ( aka the three little priests), are almost but not quite too fat to ...

It happens every year and this year it is the sad case of Betsy's big orange daughter. I don't particularly care for a big orange go...

Here are a few perhaps somewhat useful farm rules, regulations, ideas, notions, suggestions, and aphorisms, most in the category of perfectl...

Herron Hill's April the First collapsed and died last night. We cannot even really say what she meant to us. She was April the First, Ap...

If you can actually see it, please look closely at the photo at left. This is an artist's rendering of the milkhouse remodel to the barn...

Well, the farmer is going out of town for a few days and Lori is going to run the farm. This means I will get a lot of cookies, because Lori...

Well, as you know, the farmer packed up all the kidding supplies last Tuesday, prepared to enjoy a new stress-free life of anytime napping a...

Hello everyone. The Eagle has landed. The Eagle landed last night at 8:40 PST. The farmer was waiting all day yesterday for little orphan Be...

Hello, everyone. I am feeling quite a bit better. But still a bit under the weather, so I do not have enough milk to feed my triplets. They ...

Everyone please send me your good thoughts. I am feeling under the weather. The farmer has been giving me lots of medicine which I hate, and...

In this photo, Atticus inspects Sammy the bottle baby to make sure Wendell is taking proper care of him. Wendell awaits inspection results ...