Farmer Kate, Coach Eric

Today has been a very productive day. Eric had his first scrimmage with his baseball kids, and so Case and I went to watch this morning. Case LOVES baseball. He plays with the balls, pays attention to the batters and of course loves to roll around in the grass. He is soooooo close to walking by himself, but he still has to hold onto each of my pinkies, and then he takes off across the grass.... reminds me of the cartoon characters speedy gonzalez and sonic the hedgehog. its pretty funny I feel sure to watch Case taking off with me following swiftly behind him.

After we got home from that, Case took a snooze and Eric and I went outside to do some milking of goats. I have decided it is alot harder to milk a goat than a cow. The reasons are below:

1. size. a goats udder is about 6 inches from the ground. give or take a few inches.

2. horns. a goats horns are also alot closer to your face than a cows horns.

3. husbands. husbands have nothing to do with goats, but I have decided that next time I milk a goat, I will take full advantage of my husbands strength. Eric holds onto those goats ooh so well.

Now, I am sure you are thinking, why doesn't she just get a goat stand, well, I MADE one, with my very own welding skills... and it is very nice, the welds are consistent with excellent penetration (thank you dad, for these nice skills you taught me) except I didn't take into consideration that I had plans for an average sized dairy goat, without remembering that all of my nanny goats have some pygmy in them, therefore anre at least 6 inches shorter than the head area of my goat stand. I was so mad. Now I will be moderating my goat stand and it will by far be the best one ever.

And lastly, even though this actually should be first, we lost another goat this morning. I am not sure why, or what happened, but she was born on Thursday night, I had to pull her and she was really weak. To be honest, I am surprised she made it this long, but she was the only kid born to Abby, Erics favorite goat, and now Abby is lost and lonesome. I even tried to save her, but she was already limp with her head flopped over when I brought her in the house, so it was a lost cause.

Currently, we have 3 surviving baby goats, with a total loss of 2 this week. Gladys is due to kid anyday, and there is a theory she is pregnant with triplets, this will be her 3rd kidding.

So far, theese are the exciting stories of the day, even though not all are positively exciting. More to come from Farmer Kate later.... that is my new name from my dad.