May

May brought rain. And more rain. And so much green! So much rain that our much anticipated hay harvest had to wait. We used the extra time to put up new fencing, new access gates, repair existing fencing and re-string wire. We re-routed the goats from the front pasture to the back where they can roam freely away from the road and we can also watch them from the deck and even from out kitchen table. Since the news isn't even worth watching anymore it gives us some form of excitement!

We planted a forest. See it? Look closer... In 50 years it will be spectacular. Or maybe most of them would die in the drought to come. Little did we know when we planted them.

We bought dirt. And then we bought more dirt. The foundation of the house is now graded properly and we seem to have stopped all the water seepage. Hopefully I didn't just jinx it. We used some of the dirt to fill garden beds, fill in previously dug up areas of our lawn. As nothing can be easy, this lovely rich topsoil was filled with pigweed - roots, seeds, who knows but everywhere this dirt went, we have red rooted stubborn pigweed and it doesn't want to die.

The May rains did give way to some pretty spectacular sunsets across the property.

We finally finished at least a temporary pasture for the spring kids, we'll work on enlarging it in the fall but we used up all of our post-hole-digging energy on the larger pastures. 

The girls are happily milking away- no A/C yet, maybe next year. The fun in using stall wood to build the milking room has been gaps. Gaps so small you can't see them but the freaking mice sure can - they get in and tear open feed bags routinely. Rog has gotten as crazy with setting mousetraps as I am in killing flies in the house. 

They love their new pasture. It's a little lumpy and bumpy but goats are supposed to be agile right? No more running from cars, they can 'talk' to us when we are on the porch and they run in at milking time without being asked. Blessing has secured her new nap locations and the girls have claimed a new dirt pile to lie on.