Goat Milk

Milk is in abundance these days thanks to lots of good eating for the goats. Always at least 5L per day between Chochi and Timi. Female Handler (FH) keeps a spreadsheet (of course she does...) of morning and evening output. It's kind of a pain to get to on her computer, but I just know that there is a lot of milk in the refrigerator. They are using 2L ice cream containers for milk storage as they stack easy.

 

So...Male Handler (MH) is making cheese with all this milk. Three batches so far. They actually have an abundance of cheese right now, it's beyond crazy.

I don't particularly like cheese. I do like the the goats milk though and get to lick the storage container after the milk is gone which usually has some residual cream left in it. The problem is...so does Keika, and so does Nostra. Nostra can't quite keep the container on the dining room rug and ends up licking the container into the living room.

Some friends from Turkey who recently visited suggested goat milk ice cream. Now you're talking!

First downpour

First downpour for this one...

She could easily apply for a job as one of the Queen's Guards (the royal guards at Buckingham Palace), aside from the fact that ...
... she's a girl...
... she's underage...
... she resides in Uruguay...
... and she's a goat...

Minor details.

And then there were three ...

Happy First Day of Spring!

New leaves of a Palo Borracho tree

The trunk of a Palo Borracho tree - best not to lean on it

Brute Bro and Tiny Sis'ta

I prefer to climb trees over tires. I keep telling the kids that they'd be an Internet sensation if they just learn how to climb trees like the goats in Morocco who climb the Argan trees. They're not on board yet with my suggestions. Pity...

Chaos

The girls...

A fly is about to land on Chochi's daughter's nose

The boys...

Your first assumption on what one kid is attempting to do would be correct

The wild bunch...

The canine nanny...

I take it all in...

and wonder what Male Handler has, that has brought the gaggle of little beasts together ...

It all leaves me exhausted!

Happy Birthday, Senior Female Handler!

Senior Female Handler loves plants. And when she comes across one that she thinks is particularly attractive, she will take a little snippet of it.

Without anyone knowing...

Or she hopes that no one is looking...

In December of 2011, she took a snippet of a sedum plant, and she stuck it in a pot at the farm.

That sedum has held its own through many extra-tropical cyclones as well as a few subfreezing nights.

Today, September 1st, on Senior Female Handler's birthday, it is blooming for the first time ever.

 

A special day it is!

Happy Birthday!