The things that strike fear in a person's heart!

It's amazing the things that can strike fear in a grown woman's heart!! Tonight while we were feeding goats I was participating in my daily ritual for this time of year. Copping a feel to see which does were starting to bag up. Last week I told Richard with some excitment that I thought when we moved does to maternity this week we would probably have at least 15 to move. I was pretty happy and excited about that since these Jan/Feb kids will be the prime candidates for show kids for 4-H and FFA. Tonight though...as I walked around checking for bags and calling out names as I felt that small pooch that meant their time was coming...I started to feel a small stab of anxiety that rose to outright terror as the list continued to grow. I soon realized that the list of does that needed to move to maternity pretty much included all of them!!! As the number grew I begin to feel outright terror...my heavens what are we going to do with 40 does kidding within 6 weeks! I'm sure all those fat girls were laughing at my quivering voice as I called out their names, I just hope they are still laughing when there are babies babies everywhere and not a kidding pen free!
If anybody wants to see a sea of fat little babies they should come see me in Feb!
Maybe I'll have quit trembling by then.

Dylan drives the tractor

Richard and Dylan went for a tractor drive to check the fencelines and so Dylan could learn how to drive. Tamara says he always wants to drive the truck and they ask him if he has his driver's license?
They had a blast but since Dylan was really doing the steering we had to patch a small hole in the fence afterwards. They were happy to report that the fence was in really good shape all the way around...before they passed by!
It was a small hole though and when Dylan gets his real driver's license we'll have something to tease him about and the patch in the fence to prove it!