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Month: March 2019

Eggs With A Vengence

Eggs With A Vengence

This is the time last year we were buying both milk and eggs from the store. This year, Pepper hasn’t dried off yet and has been consistently providing us with a half gallon of milk a day. So we’ve largely avoided having to buy milk this year, and with Peony due to kid any day now having just delivered this evening (!) we will probably not have to buy milk for the foreseeable future. Eggs have been a different story….

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Just In Case We Were Too Comfortable

Just In Case We Were Too Comfortable

Our animals did a good job of disillusioning us of the thought that we were falling into a good rhythm around here. We’d past the point of getting the hang of it, now we were starting to think we might even be (dare I say it) experienced! Yeah, maybe not. Animals can be humbling like that. Pepper is on a milk stand strike. What is a milk stand strike? Why, it’s where a goat refuses to get up on the…

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