Everybodys workin' for the weekend!

I considered naming this "Working 9 to 5", "She Works Hard for a Livin'" or maybe "Workin' for a Livin'", or maybe even "Take This Job and Shove It!"


The goats spent a few hours yesterday earning their keep. I put up a span of electric fence across the driveway and turned them loose in the back yard, which worked great until Rosemary managed to scoot under it without getting zapped. *ARG*

I have GOT to get a better fencer box! Something that will knock a critter back if they get too close instead of maybe give them a tingle if they stick their tongue on it.

At any rate, PICTURES!!!

NOMNOMNOM!!!



Pitiful Parsley liked the dandelions better at first. Not sure if you can tell but he is finally shedding his coat and the stuff underneath is a lot more black instead of red. Shinier, too. His skin is still flaky but much better and still improving.



He finally found the scrub wild blackberry. When I first got him he moved in this kind of stiff post legged way, now he runs around all wiggly just like the other goats. He has GOT to be feeling better, even if he does still look a bit... rumpled. he has discovered that girls are interesting, finally, lol:



Thyme was the first one to find the good stuff:



but it didn't take long before they were all getting to work clearing the spot for next year's chicken coop addition:





Rosemary found a good vantage point to scope out the job site:




Sage took a break from brush clearing to mow some lawn:



Once Himself and the other Ladies noticed she was gone they raced around the yard a bit then joined her for some munchies:



If I could trust that they wouldn't blast through that fencing i could leave them out all day but if it won't zap through their fluffy coats they can just blast through it and get to the hedge bushes which are toxic to them. *sigh*

So yeah, really need something better but portable for this sort of thing.

Today it is pony pasture building time.

Tiffany is turning 15.

May 3. Hard to believe she is that old already! This is her current crazy look, lol:



But these are the ones she has gone through in the last month or two (stolen from her picture folders):



(my favorite, but that colour has to be done every two weeks or so to keep looking that good so she got sick of it)







easter:







hehe. She cracks me up.

She has something she desperately wants for her birthday. She has been asking me about it for a couple of weeks.

She wants a ukulele.


My kid is awesome.

WHOOOO! I'm 40!!!!

YEAH!


I'm a horrible blogger.

I forget to write for soooo long, then when I remember I have so much to write that I feel overwhelmed and put off writing about any of it.

SO! I am going to try and write something every single day. Even if it is just a little "yup, still alive!"

At any rate... saturday was my birthday. I got a delightful surprise birthday party. I sorta expected it because I basically told them, "I am turning 40, and I am excited about it, and i want black balloons that say over the hill!!!" I never ever want a fuss at my birthday because i don't like being the center of attention (hard to believe, I know) but this was a special birthday!! I have never been one to get all emotional about getting older. I LIKE getting older. I know, I must be CRAZY. But I have been looking forward to turning 40 for years.

Well, I am up to my elbows in trying to reclaim neglected cast iron cookwear that i was given this week, so i will be back later and over the next week or so I will try to get back on top of this whole blogging thing.