In the Southwest, we love CITRUS! From December to February, everybody seems to have too many lemons, limes, oranges, and grapefruit. When we moved here, we were excited to have a full-grown grapefruit tree in our backyard. (Well, it looked like a grapefruit tree to us.) Turns out it was a Pomelo Tree. … [Read more...]
Healthy Soft Gingerbread Cookies
My sweet mother-in-law gave me this recipe and it's both a blessing and a curse! It's BOTH healthy & delicious. Two things that are hard to find these days.They are SO yummy that I prolly ate the whole first batch myself. In a day. Then I hurried and made another batch so my husband wouldn't notice I ate them all. Then I had to eat more of the … [Read more...]
An ‘Ode to Peter the Sheep
It was a sad week last week. Our poor sheep Peter, died. He seemed fine to us (although we've never raised a sheep before), he ate our grass, played with our baby goat and seemed happy and healthy. BUT, now we don't think he was very healthy because, well, he's dead. One day I noticed how Peter was laying down while … [Read more...]
My did it!
So as you know we have 2 goats that we milk every morning. Who am I kidding, I MILK EVERY MORNING. I'm like the little red hen. "Who will help me milk this goat?" Needless to say I get a lot of "Not I's" And then we actually drink the milk! Without pasteurizing it! Shocking, I know. Every day I get a … [Read more...]
I know, I know
Gosh, why do I not blog more! Here's the skinny on what's been happening in our lives... I canned strawberry sauce (recipe found here) so we could instantly flavor our yogurt. Goat milk yogurt that is. One of our chickens tortured and eventually ate a snake. And then for some reason this happened to one of their … [Read more...]
Spring, Spring, Spring!
Here are some pictures of all the new babies at our house. (and some pretty cute human kids too.) Our newest addition, Peter. Peter and the WOLFords. Classic. And no we did not choose his name. And why did we get a lamb, you ask? Well, because so we can eat him of course! Well, … [Read more...]
The Great Goat Escape
First off, let me just say we consider ourselves fairly intelligent people. Although after I tell you this story, you might think otherwise... One thing you probably didn't know about goats is that they are incredible jumpers. Really, incredible! We have found that a slow moving, 80 lb. goat can be very deceiving. . … [Read more...]
The "Animal Area"
I've been dreaming about this since the day we bought this house and now, a whole year later, it's completed! Well, almost. I wanted to build an animal area at the farthest part of our yard and make it easy to keep our animals. First we had to build up a big pad of dirt to keep it out of our irrigation. Luckily, we are … [Read more...]
Apricot tree Blossoming
Wow, 2 posts in ONE day!? I must have a lot of time on my hands! Not really, but so many things have happened today that I just had to share. I love love love this weather and I love where I live. I am so grateful for Kevin's insight to buying a house at the right time and we're so lucky everything worked out for good. It's been a busy day of … [Read more...]
Happy Happenings
I finally finished my cabinets! Yea! They turned out pretty good I think. To save on new hinges, I spray painted the old ones black and I accidently screwed them in too close to the edge and the black is already scraping off :( I'll have to fix that later. I cut wains coating with a scroll saw and used liquid nails to press it into the existing … [Read more...]
Little Goaties
Princess had her little goaties, they are really cute! Jessica was in town and we got to stay up late together out in the rain & cold and watch the birth. It is crazy how fast they get up after they are born. Now, at about 2 weeks old, they are stinkin fast and love to jump on top of their mom and stand on her back, it's really funny! If … [Read more...]
Christmas is Over
Ah, I love the holiday season, but I'm also so glad when it's over! Kevin listens to way too much Christmas music, I know you don't think that's possible but it IS! He even listens to it after Christmas. Christmas this year was fun, I think the highlight was making fires in our fireplace every morning. Kevin is so fun around Christmas because he … [Read more...]
Goats and other random things…
Hello to all my 5 readers out there! Thanks for tuning in to our adventurous life. This month has flown by and here are the events. Well we just HAD to let the kids play in the irrigation because it was the last one until spring. The kids stripped off their clothes and jumped into the water as soon as possible. Kevin started on the treehouse! … [Read more...]
Family Photos 2009
Recovering.
I am back. The surgery was...okay I'm not gonna lie, I was pretty upset when I first got to the surgery center because I thought this was going to be like my last surgery and I would just be put under IV sedation, but then they told me they were going to have to actually cut me open so I would need to be intubated. YUCK! I was in tears because, … [Read more...]
Another Surgery
Well, here I go again...it seems I have another bulging disk. About six months after the last surgery, I started to have a little sciatic pain down my legs. Each time I would over exert myself, it would start to shoot down my leg. UGH! So I finally had another MRI and they found a small bulge (not nearly as bad as before) and on Monday I'm going to … [Read more...]