Our First Goats!

Welcome Willow and Lyra.

After extensive searching, Kristen and I brought home our first goats, which we purchased from Holly Ridge Farm in Salley, SC. The one in the foreground is my goat, Willow, who is a Pygmy/Nigerian mix. Next to her, is Kristen's goat, Lyra, an unregistered Pygmy. They are 8 weeks old. Since they are herd animals and like the company of other goats, they are temporarily bunking together at
Kristen and Ben's farm (Five Leaves Farm). Luckily, we only live 1/2 mile apart and can spend a lot of time bonding with our mini dairy goats. This is the first time they have eaten the food we offered to them (day 2), though they have been browsing in their pen.

Kristen takes a turn feeding the babies. This is also the first time they have been willing to come up to us. Can you tell we are relieved!?

Maaaaaa!

A picture of Joe watching the goat show, and Willow showing off.

Here they are next to a 5 gallon bucket, for scale. When full grown we think their shoulders will be at about knee height.
The End (for now)

April Showers...

...mean the Irises are blooming!
A big Thank You to Uncle Bill who plowed our garden for us, earlier this month. Our soil test came back near perfect. We have already planted some onions, which were donated by Ben at Five Leaves Farm. The rest of the veggies will be planted in the next couple of weeks.
Also this month our septic system was installed! Yea!
I painted our mailbox and "planted" it near our driveway.
And Foxie and I saw our first Luna moth walking back from the farm one evening. It was so gorgeous that I went home, picked-up my camera, and went back to find it (and take this photo).
Now you are all caught up.... Well, almost.