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Removing Spurs, Eartagging & Disbudding
Yesterday was a day of firsts for me since I’ve only recently became involved with our goats. I’ve always enjoyed our farm animals but have wanted my kids (children not goat kids 🙂 ) to do the farm work for the experience as well as the wholesomeness of it all. I think it’s good for them. I’ve found it to be good for me, too. It’s quite therapeutic to be outside and care for the goats. It’s so easy for me to stay inside since it’s more comfy and because there’s always plenty of work to be done. But now I have to get out there and feed the goats…
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Taste and See
The following is a little story taken from a sermon William Branham preached in 1953 called “Show Us the Father and It’ll Satisfy Us” People who are taught that there is no such a thing as the Holy Spirit, don’t know what they’re talking about. Like that boy once peeling an apple, and was asked by an infidel, debating a meeting. He said, “What do you want, what do you want up here?” He said, “I want to ask you a question.” While he was eating the apple and enjoying it, a very simple, sort of, looked like a delinquent person with the hair hanging in his face, and one…
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The Week in Review – 7/11/10
Monsoons are starting to hit Arizona. I hear some thunder occasionally, the sky is overcast and there’s a cool breeze gently wafting over me as I type this post. It’s lovely. It has been quite hot here but not near as scorching as in Phoenix. Just this past Friday, Phoenix was 117° but thankfully we don’t live in Phoenix. We were actually 50° cooler than Phoenix where we live. We left our home Friday just when things were finally starting to cool down because of the monsoons, descended the mountain into Phoenix arriving in Tucson where we spent the weekend. Friday night was graduation night for some fellow homeschoolers… I…
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Raising Goats is Not All Easy
While gone to Ohio we had 3 baby kids born. We knew one of the mothers would be having kids but had no clue about the other. All were healthy and are growing quite well. Two bucklings and one doeling. One of the bucks, (Charming, we call him) is getting quite frisky. He runs and jumps in the air and just yesterday I saw him butting his head with the Boer doeling that was born in May. This is Charming our 100% Nubian buckling. Charming has a twin which we named Bernard. Bernard is strong but Charming is the bigger one of the two. If you’re wondering if all our goats are named, they’re not. Not…
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Pizza Dough the Minimalist’s Way
I never have success making homemade pizza. It’s always doughy on the bottom despite any pan or cookie sheet I choose to use. Is it because I’m making it with whole wheat pastry flour?? I have pretty much given up on attempting it, it’s just too frustrating. The tops always look beautiful but then we’ve got the problem of it being (say it with me) “doughy.” However, I was given a recipe by my niece for an easy pizza dough that they said worked with whole wheat flour, was easy to make and tasted good. Sounds like a winner. After having the recipe in my collection and avoiding it for several…
