I Didn't Inhale - Farm Photo of the Week

When I asked Blackie the goat just what he was doing, his only reply was, "I didn't inhale".

A Hopeful Heart

I don't think I have taken as much time as I should in the past to look for the special little things in life. I am trying to change that and to take the time to appreciate all the beauty in the world around me. Like a beautiful sunrise, morning dew shining on the grass, or the way the tree leaves rustle in the wind.

I do know one person who knows how to appreciate the special little things in life and in the heart of nature. In fact she has a wonderful and interesting blog called Random Hearts dedicated to it. Clytie was kind enough to feature a picture of a goat I raised on her "Guest Heart Thursdays" blog post yesterday. This goat's registered name is "Chance's Hopeful Heart" but we always called her Heart for short. Can you figure out why? Heart was not alone on Clytie's blog this week, you should really check out the other animals with heart on her blog.

And what about Heart the goat? She is doing well, Heart and her two young kids went to live in a wonderful home and now belongs to a couple of the nicest people you could ever meet, sisters Deb and Dee. Who also own Heart's two younger half sisters as well, so she went to live with family you could say!

I do still have some of Heart's other sisters and one of her doe kids from 2009 on the farm. This is an old picture of Heart's doeling taken last year when she was a kid. I can't believe I don't have a more recent one. I had not even planned on keeping her last year but she has turned out to be such a nice goat. She isn't going anywhere now!

Heart's mother Hope is also still on the farm, you may remember her as the alfalfa loving goat.... definitely not her most flattering picture! So I promised Hope the goat I would make it up to her by posting a much nicer picture of her on the blog, one where she isn't stuffing her face with alfalfa anyway. Three generations of great goats, Grandmother Hope, Daughter Heart and now Granddaughter....shoot she still needs a name! I am terrible.

Hope as a three year old.

Kansas Sunrise

Good Morning!

A colorful Kansas sunrise on the farm.

Shame on Me

Wow, 3 whole posts for June and two of those were pretty much just pictures. This blog has definitely been lacking this past month and I apologize to anyone who takes the time to read it. I am still here, the farm is still going and the goats are all doing well. I guess I have just been in a blogging funk the last month. There has been lots of thoughts and things to write about but somehow I haven't been able to type them out for some reason.

The problem has been made worse by the fact our high speed Internet was taken out by lightening......again. Back to dial-up for the time being and all the waiting and half loaded websites that comes with it. The upside of all that waiting on web pages to load is my desk is finally clean and my spider solitaire skills are getting scary good. If I haven't visited your blog in awhile I am sorry, I am hoping our regular Internet service will be fixed soon.