It's been a long time since I've posted... The craziness of being pregnant and running the household, and helping James' business got to be pretty busy for awhile, and then our daughter, Elsienne Mae was born in June.
Now that things are settling down, I'm hoping to be able to write quite a bit more... Some exciting things that have happened on our little homestead since January are:
1. Elsienne was born... Our little angel is doing great and is the perfect baby!
2. I learned how to can. So far, I have waterbath canned blueberry jam and blueberry pie filling, and I bought a pressure canner and canned green beans from our garden yesterday.
3. We got another goat. Her name is Snickers and she's a Lamancha/nigerian dwarf cross. We will be breeding her this fall.
4. LuLu (our Lamancha goat) had a baby on April 28th... She's a beautiful doe, and we named her "Sugar" because she's white and sweet! We milk Lulu every day and get about 1/2 gallon from her. I like making cheese, but the milk is usually all drank before we can save up enough to make a batch. Hopefully, after the other does are bred and kid, we will have enough to make lots of cheese.
5. We have more chickens than before, and we also have some ducks.
6. James and his crew put up a high-tensile electric fence for our goats.
7. They also built the baby's room and an AWESOME pantry for me!
8. We planted some peach, pear, and cherry trees, grape vines, and a garden. We won't see anything from the trees or vines this year, but it's an investment in our future and our homestead!
Well, that gets you caught up on the major happenings in our little corner of the world...
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