The storms passed and the sun came out leaving us with a sunny, dry day. This was enough to convince the goats to venture outside, that plus the Christmas tree they hadn’t finished eating yet! You might also notice the goats are getting a little wide, they should all be kidding in the next week […]
Isn’t it Pretty.
We have about 2-3 inches of snow here. It happened in just about four hours last night. I know, all of you in other parts of the country are pretty used to snow and this is nothing compared to what you get. Snow on the Willamette Valley floor is unusual for us. Here are some […]
Snow day!!
So the weather folks have been teasing us for days about cold weather and the chance of snow, with no results. We woke up this morning to another day that WAS NOT WHITE. Yes, I love the snow, so i was very happy to see the snow finally start to fall this morning around 9am. […]
Frosty Fog This Morning
We woke up to 28 degrees and foggy. Not cold compared to some parts of the country, but enough to make it brisk and combined with the fog, worthy of a couple pictures. Frozen moisture on spider webs are always amazing. I probably should have put away this sprinkler by now, a little late in […]
First snow of the year
It wasn’t much, but it was indeed snow falling today in the Willamette Valley. This fall has been very wet and warm, and while that is fairly typical for the northwest, we do prefer the temps to drop so at least it “feels” like winter. It sounds like the winter forecast is setting up for […]
The Trick to Picking a Perfect Pear
In a previous post, I mentioned that we picked 124 pounds of pears. When I grew up, we had a pear tree. We often picked the Bartlett pears when they were yellow because a yellow Bartlett pear is a ripe Bartlett pear. Right? WRONG! There is a trick to picking a perfect pear, and I’m going […]
Baby Goat Pictures
I just got around to downloading some baby goat pictures from the past two days and I just have to share them. If you hover over the pictures I did some captioning. If you click on them it will enlarge the pictures. And last but not least, here are the two newest babies this […]
Bucks LOVE their Organic Kelp Meal
Our goats love their Organic Kelp Meal. Here are our bucks, Surfer Joe (white), Woody (red) and introducing our newest member Tamarack, scrambling to get their fair share of Organic Kelp Meal. We put this out for them to eat every Saturday, and they consume it like it is going out of style. We put our […]
Fruit Tree Pruning
Gosh, last February we spent every Sunday at Clackamas Community College attending a fruit tree pruning class. We already have about 25% of the fruit tree pruning done. A full month ahead of last year. We have had a few rain-free days and we all got involved in the fruit tree pruning. We are trying […]
Easy Homemade Chicken Run Door
Michael came up with an easy homemade chicken run door to solve our problem. “What problem?” you ask. Goats. Yes, they are often a problem. We just have to be smarter than them. Let me explain the situation. In the upper pasture, we have the barn, chicken coop/run, and various other things. We have a […]
Building a Goat Feeder
In case you didn’t know, Michael has a side job of building goat feeders and selling them. You may not have noticed, but we have a “For Sale” page on our blog. We sell milk, eggs and soap. One thing we have learned over the past year and a half is hay is expensive and […]
Roaming Geese Return for Breakfast
With the typical winter rain we get here in Oregon, we have accepted that our lower pasture will flood each year, and stay flooded sometimes for weeks. Not a huge problem for us, and it brings in a lot of waterfowl to watch. It is also impressive how much water levels can rise and fall […]