Stroll to the barn

Spring and summer birdsong is great here. We thought about getting some guinea hens to hang out in the garden and eat bugs, but they would scream so much you wouldn't be able to hear the other birds.

And that thing about goats?

Yeah, we still have goats at the new place. In fact, we have a few more today than yesterday. And yesterday we had a few more than the day before. Funny thing about goats - when you put boys with girls for a few weeks, then in a few months you get babies!  Here are two from a yesterday. Their mommy? Oddly enough, her name is Zipline. No kidding.....

 More pics of the babies as soon as I can get out there.

Amanda - this update's for you

Having been so remiss in letting the blog lapse, I have found that there is a lot to catch up on. Not the least is the fact that we are at a new farm. For various reasons we have moved further south. And while I was thrilled that it put us in a different gardening zone, I’ve discovered that it really hasn’t meant that it’s any warmer in the winter. In fact, the weather is more bizarre than I had ever thought it could be. Yesterday’s storm, which threatened an inch of ice and eight inches of snow, was a disappointment to the forecasters but not to us.

I had plenty of experience with the affect a large body of water has on the weather (having lived on Lake Shore Drive for a while) but completely misjudged how much the Ohio River would affect the weather. Time and again since we’ve moved here I’ve watched the weather radar, waiting for a massively-looming thunderstorm to hit us with wind, torrential rain, damaging hail, possible tornadoes and odd looking women on bicycles – only to see it fizz out to a regular rain storm.

We did, however, get nailed this winter with a truly spectacular ice storm. Not one of those namby pamby things that melts the next day. Nope, this ice stuck around for many days, making life beautiful, but otherwise extremely inconvenient for anyone outdoors. Luckily for me I’m not included in that population this time of year.  Why? Well, that’s for the next post. For now, I’ll just leave you with what I was able to see out of my back door for about a week this winter. Proving there can be beauty in inconvenience.