This Goat's Life

The Key Peninsula Expedition; Day 150. Dear Diary: Now it is sleeting, with iceballs dancing in the feeders and the wind blowing a gale fr...

Every morning when we wake up it is freezing cold. This morning the fields are carpeted with frost. Today they say don't be surprised by...

Ok here is the whole family. Iota has been developing a magnificent topknot, I must say.

In these photos Lori tries unsuccessfully to explain the farm's strict "No Screaming" policy to the squirrels.

Betty's daughter Iota, a first freshener, took a bipolar approach to labor with the set of chubby boy-girl St. Patrick's Day twins...

Video: The Betty Family enjoys a stroll around the barnyard. Well for some dratted reason this video doesn't work now. Here is the Br...

Yes It's Me

Midget at the Milk Bar Cubby waits his turn

Well it is a known fact that you can't sit around reading Emily Dickinson poems all day long no matter how gloomy you feel because the...

It was a hard, hard, hard day here yesterday, pretty close to the hardest day ever. So there is no easy way to tell it. Hannah Belle was ...

Still no sign. Waiting and holding. Everyone is worn thin (not Bumbles, obviously) with waiting and worry. The only good sign is Hannah Bell...

The sage continues with Hannah Belle a little bit up and then a little bit down. The vet has her on lactated ringer's now and she has be...

It is not Leap Day any more thank Goodness and Hannah Belle is feeling a little bit better and she has nibbled a little bit of grass and som...

Today is Leap Day and it feels like an ominous day. Right now it is raining and snowing and the wind from the west is whipping the fir tr...

The farmer is going to go ahead and start the kidding countdown because it is guesstimated that Betty and Hannah Belle will both kid on Satu...

We are getting pretty close to kidding time and since it is so devilishly muddy it has been decided that Hannah Belle and Boxcar Betty will ...

If you have a farm it is good to have a farm motto. This is our motto, we have it framed. It is a good motto to remember at this time of ye...

There have been a lot of stories lately about how goats develop accents . Woop, big news flash, I could have told you that two years ago whe...

The die is cast. Yesterday Pebbles was bred to the devilishly handsome Tiny Giant, a milk-loving Mama's Boy. Here is his baby picture. ...

Today is Valentine's Day and fyi I am still accepting small gifts of candy and pretzels and swedish fish and gingersnaps and so on. I ha...