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Bridgemoof
Overrun with beasties
HI everyone!
Let me just say you guys have been so busy posting...it's been hard to keep up with everyone! I subscribe to many of your journals, and my inbox has been just full of messages...I love it!
Christmas Activities
Well, the parade was really fun. I just love that parade. There were 78 Great Pyrenese dogs, numerous Samoyed rescue, Greyhound rescue, Corgi rescue, the Humane Society dogs, the Service Dogs group, the Charros (the mexican guys on their fancy dancing horses-LOVE) more ponies and horses, Santa in the sled pulled by the Shires. So cool! We picked up a big horse named Samson who is a Clydesdale. Beautiful big sweetie! He walked in the a parade and was a good boy, too. Nothing like a Christmas parade to put you in the mood for the holidays!
Yesterday I brought my wool Santas to Ruth's senior center for show and tell. They really got a kick out of it and it was fun to show them how I did it. They were pretty amazed!
Today is Santa's Workshop at the church to make wreaths
My favorite time of year! I can't wait to see my lady friends and help make beautiful wreaths. It's an hour and a half drive so I'm going to get going early, just after I feed the chickens. I don't want to miss BREAKFAST! lol I finished painting 8 ornaments the other day, so I will bring 5 to the church and put 3 up on my etsy store for sale.
Saturday is the Farmer's market with the Loudoun County Sheep Producer's Association and I want to make a strong showing with my felted items, but I only have one Santa left to bring! So somehow this week I am going to try and finish at least one more.
But despite all of the Christmas activity, I don't feel much in the Christmas mood at home. I dread the thought of getting a tree...the cat, the pigs...I know there will be screaming and fighting involved. All my Christmas ornaments are in the truck and it will be impossible to get them without making a huge mess. I just can tell you right now it will NOT be fun. I have a bad attitude about the whole thing, I know, but I just know what's going to happen. Christmas is cancelled. Bah.
Goats
Kiko Joe has not been let out of the stall yet. I can't wait to see him next to the other goats. He really is big! Tim took Riccardo to the auction yesterday. Riccardo was one of our mixed Boer bucks and he had been over at the Hunt kennels on loan breeding their alpine goats. So we picked him up after the parade and I got to see the cute irish huntsman
So sadly, since we have no room for 3 bucks, Riccardo had to go. I just hope he got a home instead of the freezer, he was a good guy and was very friendly and healthy.
So on the way to the auction yesterday, Tim brought along another doe that we weren't sure was pregnant. We thought she was pregnant when we got her. 5 months came and went and nothing, although she has huge bulges coming out of her sides and looks pregnant. And we SWEAR she wasn't with Mikey all that time, but I guess she was, or with Riccardo, because the vet did an ultrasound and says she is almost full term. We thought maybe she had some weird tumors, lol. So between her and the alpine, we should be having baby goats any day now!
Alright, that's it. I'll report on the Christmas mart later this week!
Let me just say you guys have been so busy posting...it's been hard to keep up with everyone! I subscribe to many of your journals, and my inbox has been just full of messages...I love it!
Christmas Activities
Well, the parade was really fun. I just love that parade. There were 78 Great Pyrenese dogs, numerous Samoyed rescue, Greyhound rescue, Corgi rescue, the Humane Society dogs, the Service Dogs group, the Charros (the mexican guys on their fancy dancing horses-LOVE) more ponies and horses, Santa in the sled pulled by the Shires. So cool! We picked up a big horse named Samson who is a Clydesdale. Beautiful big sweetie! He walked in the a parade and was a good boy, too. Nothing like a Christmas parade to put you in the mood for the holidays!
Yesterday I brought my wool Santas to Ruth's senior center for show and tell. They really got a kick out of it and it was fun to show them how I did it. They were pretty amazed!
Today is Santa's Workshop at the church to make wreaths
My favorite time of year! I can't wait to see my lady friends and help make beautiful wreaths. It's an hour and a half drive so I'm going to get going early, just after I feed the chickens. I don't want to miss BREAKFAST! lol I finished painting 8 ornaments the other day, so I will bring 5 to the church and put 3 up on my etsy store for sale.Saturday is the Farmer's market with the Loudoun County Sheep Producer's Association and I want to make a strong showing with my felted items, but I only have one Santa left to bring! So somehow this week I am going to try and finish at least one more.
But despite all of the Christmas activity, I don't feel much in the Christmas mood at home. I dread the thought of getting a tree...the cat, the pigs...I know there will be screaming and fighting involved. All my Christmas ornaments are in the truck and it will be impossible to get them without making a huge mess. I just can tell you right now it will NOT be fun. I have a bad attitude about the whole thing, I know, but I just know what's going to happen. Christmas is cancelled. Bah.
Goats
Kiko Joe has not been let out of the stall yet. I can't wait to see him next to the other goats. He really is big! Tim took Riccardo to the auction yesterday. Riccardo was one of our mixed Boer bucks and he had been over at the Hunt kennels on loan breeding their alpine goats. So we picked him up after the parade and I got to see the cute irish huntsman
So sadly, since we have no room for 3 bucks, Riccardo had to go. I just hope he got a home instead of the freezer, he was a good guy and was very friendly and healthy.So on the way to the auction yesterday, Tim brought along another doe that we weren't sure was pregnant. We thought she was pregnant when we got her. 5 months came and went and nothing, although she has huge bulges coming out of her sides and looks pregnant. And we SWEAR she wasn't with Mikey all that time, but I guess she was, or with Riccardo, because the vet did an ultrasound and says she is almost full term. We thought maybe she had some weird tumors, lol. So between her and the alpine, we should be having baby goats any day now!
Alright, that's it. I'll report on the Christmas mart later this week!
I am jealous!!! I have at least 3 months to wait yet before I have any kind of babies!!!!!
