Ragdollcatlady's Just a Little Patch of Weeds Farm journal

I have been super crazy busy lately...so for updates...

The CL guy took all the trash before I even got home from work and just left me a message asking when he could come for Beefy! I love that guy! This is hands down the fastest/best CL transaction ever! He got a nice spotted buck for a new goat herd and I got junk out a my trunk! (OK maybe outta the yard...but I feel so much lighter all the same!)

Pirate and my kid are fine.

Work has been super busy. One coworker has been really difficult/mean lately, we have a new Dr, new intern and new employee so alot of explaining and helping on top of tons of appointments and alot of extra foxtail cases.

There is a roughly 2 week waiting list for well repairs. Estimate to lower water pump by 21 feet is around $500. I bought some 5 gallon water bottles and a hand pump so we can drink and wash dishes with that (camping style), trying to be super ultra conservative with the well water to protect our pump til it can be lowered, without burning it out.

GUESS WHAT???? I'VE GOT CANDY!!!!
This is Bellinis boy


Sisters girl

Sisters boy


Lack of utility aside, I have a feeling I won't have any trouble selling this kinda eye candy!

These are Bellini and Sister (Cosmo) kids. They had them on their own up and dry by the time we came out.... between the rain/thunder and lightening storms of course!

DS# took one look at sisters kids and told me that this is what goats look like when God picks a baby goat out of the whoopsie bin at Color Me Mine!!!!

The Muppets show had a scene that referenced this "whoopsie bin" for poorly painted/broken projects. I laughed and told him that he just named them...Whoopsie (and) Ben

I am bit upset with Sister for giving us a girl... tye dye swirled and heavily dappled and with blue eyes no less!!!!! Why ? Why would she do this to me!!!! She knows I would just have to keep her!!!

Speaking of poor sister... She had a foxtail in her eye last week. Thankfully we got it out quickly and she is healing up fine.

Those are some exceptionally pretty kids! I love the coloring. Sorry about your pump and water situation. You should move over to NE TX... they're getting inches upon inches of rain once again Pretty soon that whole area will be under water.

So mini Boers?? I knew they would be cute.

Our well is 300' deep, praying we never run out at that depth.

Texas should send that water this way! I'll send them my address, tell them to just leave it in the well if noone is home!


Whoopsie


Ben


Ghost Ryder and Nicky Cage sunbathing.... These little girls are 2 months old!


Bellinis little kid is a wild little bucking bronco!!! He is at least 2 times the size of sisters kids, but man! He is crazy! He was jumping all over me today. I had contemplated putting the 2 little boys on bottles so I could sell them sooner, but I want to encourage the boers to be good moms. They won't get to if they don't have the chance. Sister lays near her kids but doesn't like them putting their hooves on her. She will get up and move. So far she is letting them eat good though. Bellini has to be milked out on the side her kid doesn't use. She should have had 2 to make my life easier.

Whoopsie can cross the country and come live with us. She's adorable!!

She might trade you for some water.

I am totally struggling with need to keep Whoopsie!

We coppered and seleniumed the whole herd today. Yeah those are new words, but y'all know what I mean! The boers were the easiest to do copper boluses.... the smaller boers, I just slipped the capsules in their mouths while they were busy eating and they mostly just swallowed it when the food went down. Others....not so much! I have a huge balling gun for the giant boers. I need to get smaller guns for everyone else though.

Weights on Baileys girls: Ghost Ryder is 44lbs and Nicky Cage is 42lbs. (2 months)

Rigs kids: Casper 20lbs and Mini is 18lbs (18 days old)

We have a big wind storm that just showed up out of the blue 10 minutes ago. Some big drops of rain. Hope it sticks around!

Well, we have good news and bad.

Good news: Mothers day weekends was fun. But I went pantsless the whole weekend. Sort of.

I drove 4 hours after work to my grandmas house. Normally I would change out of my scrubs before going anywhere, but driving so late, knowing grandma was going to be up waiting for me, I was trying to rush out the door. We stayed up till 11:30 talking that night. Grandmas are so much fun! When I got up to take a shower Saturday morning and realized that I forgot my pants! I accidentally left them on the couch at home in my hurry to get on the road! My mom was driving up to meet us so I called and told my brother " I forgot pants and coffee!!! I can live without pants, but bring coffee!!!!" I wore PJ pants all weekend and pretended I was a hobo. Poor grandma kept offering to wash my scrubs so I could wear them. (Don't tell her, but I actually brought a shirt that would have looked fine with the scrub pants...I just thought it was dramatic and hilarious that I forgot pants, so I opted for PJs all weekend.) She asked if I was wearing my PJ pants to drive home. YUP, still digging the hobo feel of fleece jammies.... My poor grandma! ( I think she might have been embarrassed for me! or maybe it is of me! Good thing she loves me. )

Bad news: DH called tonight to tell me he turned off the power to the well. It as running but not pumping any water. We are officially out. Picked up a few more 5 gallon jugs of water and neighbors kindly let us hook up to one of their faucets to water the herds and flocks. Years ago we did the same for them. So very glad we did! They offered showers and the use of their kitchen/water for cooking if necessary as well. I think we will be fine indoors but I was seriously worried about the animals outside as they use a good several gallons daily. First thing tomorrow I am calling to ask to be bumped up on the waiting list as we are in worse shape now. Praying this works out quickly. We need water. I have plans to run by the laundromat tomorrow if I can and try and do most of our laundry.

Did your grandma ask why no goats this year? Seems like it was a tradition we had started.

As far as the well, having mine go dry is my biggest fear. We are already 300' deep so not sure how much deeper we could go. Praying that they can fix this soon for you. How deep is your current well? I know that CA Central Valley is really struggling with ground water levels everywhere; not good at all.

Water was one of the few things we weren't sure we could be sure of. We have a 1300' well that is safe but high sulfur smell so when the local water company surveyed to see if there were enough potential customers for rural water, we signed up. We still use the well for outside things but we have a sure supply of water to the house.