Saturday Picnic Dinner at the Beach (Rio de la Plata)

Not a bad way to end the day...

Mini-Female Handler and her dog...

Whatchulookinat?

Excuse me, but do you have a problem with a dog wearing a sock?

Lazy Summer Days

Summer has arrived...

Summer has most definitely arrived and mini-Female Handler has embraced it full on!

(You'll need your volume up to hear the goats...)

Wind Farms in Colonia

It would seem that wind farms are popping up all over Uruguay but the truth of the matter is that they don't happen overnight.

With each new wind farm, Uruguay is closer to reaching its goal of having 90% electricity generated specifically from renewable energy sources by 2016.

This wind farm is off of Ruta 22 (to Tarariras) which can be reached from Ruta 1 in (departamento) Colonia. Artilleros is being developed by Rouar S.A. (a joint venture between UTE and Electrobras de Brasil).

When completed it will consist of 31 wind turbines generating 50 megawatts of electricity.

Joy

Nostra, the former stray Buenos Aires street dog, found by mini-Female Handler last year, taken in, nurtured and loved, who now has an almond orchard to race through, an endless supply of birds to chase, open land to roam and hunt, a soft special bed to snuggle up on every night, cats to boss (don't get me wrong, I get the better of her each and every time), and an endless supply of goat bones to gnaw on, is overjoyed to see mini-Female Handler as she arrives at the farm for the first time in 10 months.

The ups and downs of November

I didn't mean for so much time to go by without pawing away at the keyboard, but it did. I am highly distracted... These were the highlights:

- We lost two kids. Very sad... Needless to say they did not die of natural causes but rather they were prey for animals higher up on the food chain. Chochi's girl is the lone survivor. And she was given a name: Alita. Ala means wing in Spanish. Her ears look like wings, and because she is little, she got the "ita" on the end, or Little Wing. If you should start humming the lyrics to Jimi Hendrix' "Little Wing"...that would be ok.

Alita climbing the tree for the choicest of young leaves

Alita is a charmer, and we anticipate she will be a good milker. She certainly comes from the finest of stock.

- Senior Male Handler came down for a visit. I kind of like the fellow, and I think he kind of likes me too. Here he is learning the fine art of making cheese from clabbered goat milk.