Queen Mum's Dancing in the Rain

[Queen Mum]

ACK! My BYH withdrawals are bad. Here I am sitting at AP's dining room table sneaking a few minutes of time on BYH. My computer is slowly dying. So I don't have much time. BUT, I finally got a baby pen set up so I can milk! YAY! And AP's girls are really putting out the milk.

I can hardly wait to see what her girl Brownie is going to have. My buck Ian is the daddy for her big Boer doe and I think the kids should be really nice. PLUS he tends to sire doelings and she needs some more estrogen around here. I think the kids will be awesome. Good milk lines and big and muscular. A nice cross. Plus any bucklings should make good freezer meat, if AP can stand the thought of sacrificing them. If not they would make good pack goats and will have a really nice temperament.

Ian is a sweety but he's kind of full of himself these days because he's the big kahuna on campus right now, what with his big rack of horns and he is the biggest buck on the farm. He is starting to settle down a bit.

My favorite buck is Houdini, but don't tell Ian that! He has turned out to be a real gentle and sweet guy. He comes to the gate and stands to get his "leash" when all the goats go out to browse. (They go out on the property and browse every day to keep the weeds down on the 40 some acres where I live.) He is not a bully, or a pill at the feed trough and he's a gentleman at rutting season with the girls.

Well, I had better sign off. My computer is slowing down and ready to crash again.

 

[daisychick]

Nice to hear from you! Sorry about the BYH withdrawls and the crashing computer.

 

[Queen Mum]

Well, I am teenager watching at AP's house so I have some time on the computer to fill in details.

I am moved to my new home and have a paddock for my goats. They ate all the browse in ONE DAY! Then they figured out how to pull all the poison ivy vines off the trees and eat all of those.

The goats are very ingracious about my efforts to keep them happy. I take them out to browse every day for several hours - twice a day. There is about 40 acres of woods and brush for them to choose from to eat to their hearts content. But NO, 3 or four hours is NOT enough for them. They want to be out there roaming around ALL DAY. So even though they have hay feeders and plenty of water, I have to bribe them to come back to the paddock, where they lay around, bellys bulging, and chewing cud and WHINE endlessly in between naps.

I got my barn started and have been working on it for weeks now. I don't have the plywood for siding yet, but the frame is almost done. It even withstood a HUGE windstorm. I found some steel roofing in the area and so I can at least put a roof over their heads.

I have my bedroom set up. I have found two homes for my kitty, Jacket, but both fell through. One of them, the lady changed her mind and the other one, the trial with the first cat didn't work out. So I guess I will have to keep her.

I really like this little ball of fluff, but I can barely afford my goats. I wish I could find someone who would love her and give her a nice home where they would dote on her and buy her toys and be able to give her the things she really needs. She is such a sweet and lively little kitty. She greets me at the door every day (I can see her waiting in the front window as I walk up onto the porch) by hiding and when I come in, she LEAPS OUT and pounces on my shoe. Then she looks up and climbs up my pants leg until I pick her up where she sits and purrs and purrs. When I put her down, she runs furiously from one end of the house to the other and then leaps up onto my shoe again and begs for me to pick her up where she turns over and wants her little tummy scratched. "PURR, PURR". In the morning she wakes me up by leaping onto my face and then if I don't get up she paces up and down my back till I get up purring like a mini-vibrator.

Tying my shoes is an interesting experience. She doesn't quite understand that they are supposed to stay tied. She furiously tugs at the laces while I am tying them and then when I am done she plants herself on the toe of my one of my boots and rides the boot into the kitchen still furiously tugging at them and trying to undo them. If I stop, she leaps off and pulls and pulls on the laces. (I have to double tie them to keep them tied.)

Who wouldn't want a cat that agile and cute? And a beautiful blue eyed siamese to boot...

 

[redtailgal]

It's a good thing that you live so far away. She is a beautiful kitten. I'd be smoozed in a heartbeat, lol.

Would love to see pics of your barn when you get a chance.

 

[Queen Mum]

Well, when I come to NC to visit my sister, I could bring her with me. Jacket is so sweet. My sister said I should keep her and she will help me find a spay and neuter clinic. But I feel it would be in Jacket's best interest to have a permanent home where she will always have the best care.

BTW, my sister lives in NC and works at the state Necropsy lab. If you ever have to send an animal there, she will probably be the one who processes it. She is one smart lady.

 

[autumnprairie]

I could bring Jacket to Herdstock RTG would that be better for you?

 

[redtailgal]

STOP It! NO fair conspiring against me!

 

[autumnprairie]

STOP It! NO fair conspiring against me!

Would I do that?

 

[TTs Chicks]

STOP It! NO fair conspiring against me!

Would I do that?

hey QM - glad you're settling into your new digs

 

[bonbean01]

She's an adorable kitty!!! She does not need lots of toys...just food and water and tons of love

Good thing I'm allergic to cats or I'd be very tempted to make a road trip...just one state over from you...but as it is, (not to mention gas prices) we got sheep feed today instead of people feed...LOLOL...but, we like rice and beans and soon the hens will be old enough to lay eggs