When people hear my blog name, their first reaction is always, "Well that's an interesting name. Where'd that come from??...

 Apparently very hard. Or at least when the essay is only allowed to be 200 words long. Yes guys, I'm referring to that essay contest t...

  I've come full circle. I'm ready to have a dairy animal again. Granted, there are a few obstacles in the way, like the fact that ...

  I'm not really sure what my logic is behind sharing this, seeing as it will reduce my chance of winning if I actually enter... But no...

  Well looky here! We've got a new tutorial! Three cheers for Caity, who never seems to do these when she intends to!! Wait, wha? Oh...

 I used to wonder how well I would handle having to put down an animal of my own. Slaughtering I can do; it's easier, mentally, to...

  I *almost* forgot to write today's post. Almost. Between trying to get an appointment set up with my vet this week (need to get a...

Summer and Ruby... The pair are rarely far from each other.

I found a bunch of cool videos about Idaho farmers over at THIS link!

Tuesday night was a crazy, crazy evening that left me laughing at the end of; there really wasn't much else to do except laugh at the ...

Photos courtesy of Emily Nicolle Photography.

I was locking the barn up this evening, feeling tired, stressed, and not thinking of anything in particular other than the fact that I fel...

I despair of ever selling my goats. I'm down to four left: Trigun, Summer, Lyric, and Tamarack. I sold Jupiter last week but she w...

One of my friend's does decided to kid yesterday morning (it just HAD to be yesterday, didn't it!? I had a crazy day ahead and bot...

There is a time for everything. Everything. I'm sometimes the type who wants to push the boundaries on that; want to do or have things...

I think it must have been around 4am last night when in my deepest of deep sleeps I suddenly bolted upright in bed and thought, "I...

I'm curious; does anyone here raise meat goats? Or are we just a dairy oriented bunch? Anyone interested in meat goats? Again, just cu...

I don't always like it when things change. I get comfortable with how things are, and the last thing I want is for someone, or somethi...