As most of the nation has been gripped in a prepetual winter, some of us here in the Pacific Northwest have been basking in somewhat tropical climates.  The snowfall is way below average.. and our winter has resembled spring.  We did have an arctic blast during the first part of December (09)… It was colder [...]

I aquired a knew project yesterday…like I needed another project…lol..  ;-)  One of our friends had a sheep, who had a set of triplets.  She said sheep do not have enough milk to support triplets.  She knows that I have goats milk.. and that we have a lot of mouths to feed.  So, we will feed him [...]

I wanted to update everyone on a couple of my recent posts.. Turns out that my kids do have chicken pox – atleast the two youngest.  I am preppeing for the next two to get them in the next week or week in a half.  Thankfully, the youngest two have breezed right through it.  I [...]

My younger kids had a bit of a cold over the past weekend.  They are all doing much better on the sniffles end of the cold.. Buuut today, I noticed a watery blister on my youngest childs neck.  So, I started pulling up shirts and dropping drawers to find lots of them.  My 5 year [...]

Yesterday was a beautiful day.  It was very spring like.  My first doe was due Friday.  I felt so bad for her -  she was getting so big and uncomfortable.  She waited to deliver until yesterday afternoon… on one of the most beautiful Sabbath’s this year yet.  She had a little doeling and buckling with ease.. She [...]

My husband, children and I frequent second hand shops rather regularly.  I would say we try to hit them once a week – If not.. it’s every other week.  I find so many items that I have been looking for (and of course some that I didn’t know I was looking for..lol).  I hardly ever have [...]

Some of you know that we raised a bummer lamb two years ago.  My thought at the time was to raise her, breed her each year to have our own homegrown lamb in the freezer each fall.  Well, after she grew to become full sized.. she became quite the bully to our dairy goats.  I [...]

I survived the superbowl party   The crowd was a bit smaller this year - few people cancelled due to illness, etc.  All in all, it was A LOT of fun.  We finished the painting @ about 10pm Saturday night, UGH!  I cannot believe how close we came to not finishing!  I hope I’ve learned [...]

Well, I feel as if I have literally painted myself into a corner.  I don’t want to say how long ago I started this project… O.k. - I started it in November. 
I decided we needed a nice new coat of paint indoors.  We painted the inside when we first moved in 5 years ago.  I have [...]

At the beginning of last month, I decided to get my diet and weight in hand.  I joined a local phyisician assisted weight loss clinic.  As I have been going through the motions of cleaning up my diet.. I have been researching.  The diet clinic has food they would like me to eat, of course.. [...]