Our latest fun

This past weekend, the time we had was short together, but we had a lot of fun & made the most of it. Me & Amira decorated these pretty lacey umberella's, While Reid & Richard arranged for more goat babies. & then of course we could not help but to play in the snow that is slowly disappearing with the warm weather...

Loss & Gain

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Well we had a sad thing happen, Our Duck, which I called Rubber duckie when she was little & Mamma Duck when she was bigger, she led the group! She was also the biggest Duck we had which did not help her when it came to running, so something got a hold of her, she was in a lot of pain when I found her. I brought her in the house, set up the tub for her while she cleaned the dirt from her pretty feathers I looked at the wounds. Reid felt she would only suffer needlessly, so he put her down. The wounds were too much, but she looked at me calmly as I said goodbye... the others were lost without her, the next day they did not leave the coupe, when I went to feed them they were hiding, Darwin stepped out when he saw me & I could see tears, so sad(he was her life mate). Reid came into the coupe to get them out & ran them down to the stream, they are always happy there, they seem better today. I know its silly, she was only a Duck, but we love our Kritters!
Yesterday before Reid went to leave for Wyoming he took some stuff to the goats to check on them, we had Molly in the mother pin so she could have her babies & had been looking at her earlier to evaluate when she'd have them, I had been hoping she'd have them while Reid was here... So he came back in & says "I'm Staying!" My mind was on something else & did not realize at first why he'd say that, then I threw my snow boots on (I call them my pooh boots, or farmer boots, lol) & ran out there... I said after looking at her "within the hour" & sure enough all three were born within the hour! She is a first time Mommy & quite amazing, she did really well, even with Reid's sudden decision to clean our her pin, lol. All three are girls & very Healthy & beautiful, one looks like Daddy & the other two look like Mommy!
So we lost a kritter & got three new!