Joining in with Soulemama today! {this moment} A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week.  A simple, special, extraordinary moment.  A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

The winter garden is still giving us small bits of edibles here and there.  Radishes – that really needed to be picked earlier, but oh well – and carrots!  They are ugly, stunted carrots, but here in Florida we will take what we can get.  And the kale!  Out of my garden?  I’ve longed for…

Ethan found a tiny gopher tortoise.  He must have been newly hatched.  He was in danger of being squished, so of course he was relocated to a safe spot some yards away. No more now – we have a busy day ahead of us, as Nougat had a touch of mastitis, and we’ve got to…

Joining in with SouleMama today! {This Moment} A Friday ritual.  A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week.  A simple, special, extraordinary moment.  A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

I didn’t have a chance yet to mention that Nougat had her baby on Tuesday, and it was a girl!Mirin and Rose are thrilled to have a Twilight Sparkle at last, but Ethan is shockingly opposed to it.  He’s put up the biggest stink about the name.  He wants to call her Becky Thatcher–B.T. for…

June Bug was due yesterday.  Her mama is May, who was Ellie’s baby, born on May 1st.  June Bug was born on June 1st.  And it so happened that she was due on April 1st.  Ethan had his hopes up for an April, to add to the collection–if her baby was a girl. Well, when…

Over the weekend we went out to do the milking, and saw two of the baby goats (Huck and Sid) playing rambunctiously together.“Where’s Tom?” I asked Ethan, who was in the paddock with me.We walked all around the paddock, which is fairly small, but there was no sign of him.  May suddenly realized she couldn’t…

May’s baby was born last week.  He looks just like May!  And he got the long Nubian ears that are so adorable.  May has tons of milk this time.  Mirin and Rose are bitterly disappointed that all the babies so far are boys.  They were both hoping to name them after My Little Ponies.  (I am…

{A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.}

We have begun the GAPS diet this week. Since Mirin was very young he has had mood behavior issues that are directly related to things he eats.  Last fall he had some cake at a friend’s wedding, and was miserable for weeks afterwards.  We tried to do this for him when he was very young,…

Yesterday morning I heard a strange tapping on the front window.  When I opened the curtains, Penny was standing on the windowsill peeking in.  Later, we discovered her sitting in the egg basket that Ethan left on the front porch.  She looked very comfy. She made herself a little nest and when she got up,…

Peek-a-boo!I do hope this becomes more of a habit.I thought I might write a little about the gardens–my winter garden, and my dreams for the summer garden– Thanks to our friend Danny, we found a wonderful source of horse manure.  It’s a horse-boarding place, there’s tons and tons of it, and they are so happy…