Today is pretty much the first sunny day in 2011. It is definitely the first day it’s been over 60. It’s fantastic.
I checked on the new beehives to make sure they got the queens out — they did — and are building comb — they are.
I pulled up all the toxic or questionable stuff from the downstairs garden, and protected the few things that overwintered (garlic and leeks) and we wrangled the goats down there to start weeding for us.
The little goat family. They are still working out their family dynamic — that is, Mama goat being a jerk to Middle Goat while they sort out their hierarchy — but I think they’re getting there.
This is Puzzle, who we picked up last weekend from the goat farm. She is also known as Peanut, Pickle, or Peaches.
This is baby goat, whose name may be Nancy Raisin, though we still seem to just call her baby goat.
I feel like I should be doing more chores, but there are worse things to do with the first sunny day of the year than sit and hang out with some goats who are doing some of your chores for you.
(When the goats are done we’ll spread compost and let the chickens loose, like we did last year.)
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