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- July 19, 2010: We have BABIES!
- July 10, 2010: Family Picnic and Quilt
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- June 7, 2010: Talking Turkey
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- May 6, 2010: Spring Snow
- May 3, 2010: Ponderous Thoughts
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Thanksgiving
We had an early Thanksgiving this year - SugaBaby and Mercy kidded within 24 hours of each other with SugaBaby starting the show Sunday morning. Both had two doeling and a buckling each - yeah! more does than bucks this year. Both kidded all by themselves with absolutely no help needed from us - another yeah! for sure. All babies nursed on their own - how many more yeahs! are needed? Seems like there were/are plenty! So much to be thankful for.
One of my biggest yeahs! was that John was home and could enjoy the experience. He’s a great baby-warmer-upper. Temps were 60+ degrees less in the barn than in the womb and we can’t watch those first little babies shiver while momma Suga cleans the last one out. I don’t have the patience to sit and warm the babies - thank goodness John does!
Napping is essential, where ever you can find a place.
Curiosity never ends.
The little buckskin walking towards me (”hey, you! whachadoin’???”) was the last one Mercy kidded and I found her wet and shivering waiting her turn to momma’s cleaning job. She’s the most adaptable of Mercy’s three. She goes over and sleeps under the light with Suga’s babies and knows no fear. The world is her oyster … for now!
We rigged up a light heated area for the babies. Little shivering one from above really likes this cuddly place!
I hope everyone enjoys their Thanksgiving, even if all can’t be blessed with 6 kids almost overnight. John says the best thing about our kids is if they don’t behave, we can always eat them. Look at that warming (first) picture and tell me that man would eat one of those goats!!!
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
November 24, 2009 at 06:45 am
Debbie,
I told SHOP Sunday morning that I had planned to pick on you a bit in the message, but would have to find another illustration since you had already had triplets before our meeting time, and wouldn’t be coming into town. Little did I know there were still three waiting to be born. Must have been an awesome day at BeulahLand(great pics). BTW, I still picked on you, even though you weren’t there to defend yourself!
November 24, 2009 at 10:37 am
Great pictures! Congratulations on the kids. Do the ones that Dad warms imprint on him?
November 24, 2009 at 02:34 pm
CUTE!!! How adorable! I would happily be the baby warmer upper, too!
Pam
November 25, 2009 at 06:25 am
Oh, yeah. Every one your Dad touches attaches themselves to him. They actually have a baby talk language with him the same way they do with their doe momma. When he walks out to the barn there’s one that pops up immediately and comes to the gate for him. She cries out when she hears his voice and can’t see him. AND she looks just like Sunshine, whom he spoiled rotten. I keep reminding him, “This one is a MILK goat, not a pet!”