MsDeb's Journal - Lookin Out My Back Door

[Latestarter]

HEY! Great to see you back! Hope all is well! (want to get this posted before you go offline again...) Now that I've read it... CONGRATS! That's fantastic, and the kids look great!

 

[Southern by choice]

there's a critter in the shed.... out you come with two baby goats!

Congratulations! Great read. Kids are gorgeous!

 

[Baymule]

What cuties!

 

[Hens and Roos]

Congrats! They sure are cute

 

[norseofcourse]

Good to see you post again, and congrats!!

 

[MsDeb]

So I find myself sneaking into work early just to hang with my goat friends. Maybe I've found a way to pull this off (although sleeping in is nice too.....and I've actually been working for the last half hour before I remembered I was going to do this.) Between excitement of babies and trips to ER with my daughter-in-law (she's mostly OK) I have barely had time to think. But I did sit down exhausted last night and drag out the calendar to count days. I realized that Hazel delivered at 146 days from the Pearl Harbor Day breeding visit and that Alice could go any day. Yikes! I have to be out of town for work all day today and at least all morning Thursday and Friday so I've asked a young lady who has spent some time working on a goat farm to stop by the house a couple of times while I'm not there just to check on her. I'm pretty sure Alice doesn't need to be checked on, but I need the text updates that all is well. She showed no signs of labor this morning and I'm sure was wondering why I was in the pen shining a flashlight on her backside at 0-dark-thirty this morning. Gave me a chance to snuggle the babies though. I may smell a bit like baby goat at my conference today. And I like it. GRIN! Thank you all for your well wishes! Some day maybe I'll take a Saturday and catch up on all of your adventures since I've been MIA. Until then, blessings to all!

 

[Ferguson K]

Congrats on two beautiful kids!

 

[Hens and Roos]

hope your daughter-in-law is okay...ER's are no fun!

 

[MsDeb]

hope your daughter-in-law is okay...ER's are no fun!

She's getting better. It's been a rough go for her. Spinal tap then needed a patch, which didn't work so had to go back for another patch. I know it's bad because she hasn't felt like coming out to goat babies yet.

 

[MsDeb]

So....numbers prove Hazel was bred Pearl Harbor Day and the guys swear that's the only weekend they had Max in the pen with her and Alice until end of January. That puts Alice at Day 155 today. Tail ligament soft but hard to tell how much more so since she's quite adamant about not being touched there. IF the guys forgot and put Max back in the pen with the girls the next weekend (because we never saw him on Hazel...how can three people miss that?) then Hazel is on day 148. Either way it's any time. I've been getting up at least twice a night to check on her and am getting quite weary and just a bit goofy. At least when it was my daughter or daughters-in-law, they could pick up the phone and tell me they were in labor.