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Zac spent the morning worming sheep and trimming hooves.

The goat flock, waiting their turn.

Ernie and Zac

One of the geese has decided that the compost pile is a great place to lay her eggs.

The baby chicks are in their last days of cuteness. Soon they’ll be getting their pin feathers and looking like gangly teenagers.

Lovely Fib

Jerry, biting off more than he can chew.

Chanticleer

Sweet Gnocchi

Lucy is such a good mama. She loves playing with the pups.

As you can see, my productivity has gone way down since the pups arrived.

Lettuce! We have so much of it that salads have become compulsory for lunch and dinner.

Our lavender is about to bloom. I’m thinking of making goats milk soap with lavender once things slow down a bit. Wouldn’t it be lovely to give house guests a bar of soap sourced entirely from the farm?

Already there are ten or twenty wee tomatoes on the plants that went into the ground first. I could live on tomatoes in the Summer time and it looks like I’ll be able to this year.

This is but one of the potato beds. We’ll be harvesting new potatoes next week, leaving the rest in the ground to get bigger. We may not have to buy a potato all next winter if we store these properly.

The puppies are growing before our very eyes! They have nearly doubled in size since they were born on Saturday. Some of you asked how big they are so I took this pic. Around 10 inches this morning. We’ll measure again next week.

Some of you noticed that there were only 6 in the photos I posted yesterday. We did lose one wee pup, on the second day, for no apparent reason. I went out to check them and all were fine and and an hour later one was no longer with us. It’s possible that Lucy rolled over on him, but who knows? It made me crazy paranoid; I checked them every hour for the next day, but it appears to have been an anomaly, thankfully.

I love their grumpy little faces. Notice that their noses are already starting to turn black.

I know that there are only five in this picture, but trust me, there are six. Some times one nurses while the others sleep.

I wish I could say that I’ve chosen the one we’ll be keeping but they are impossible to tell apart at this point, both in terms of looks and personality. I’m really enjoying them nevertheless. There will be plenty of time for evaluating them later- right now they are almost one organism called “puppies”. Still, I love them all.

We moved everyone to fresh pastures this morning. It fills my heart to see the all the animals so happy!