Happy Hanukkah & more goatie adventures

So last night was the first night of Hanukkah.  Happy festival of lights!  I had a very enjoyable evening watching the candles in the menorah burn down (the menorah is a little disabled… it lost one of it’s arms so it is actually two candles shy of a full deck.  Hopefully John can mend the [...]

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Happy Solstice Night

All the holidays of the cold season that involve lights are very satisfying to me.  At this time of year, when I am doing chores some days in the dark both morning and night, coming in to light the Hanukkah candles or to the tree and twinkle lights, just makes everything seem a little better, [...]

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Happy Hanukkah 2010

It’s the fifth night of Hanukkah and I finally got around to making latkes.  Grease and starch… can’t get any better comfort food than that!  Sawyer has been down with strep, so we have been doing a lot of cuddling and reading books this weekend.  And I am still feeling blah from being sick for [...]

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And so ends November

Breeding time has pretty much come and gone.  All of our girls have been marked by Lucky, the crossbred ram that was born on our farm and then went to live at Hatchtown Farm (he was destined to go to the butcher as a market lamb, but he had had pneumonia and none of us [...]

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Happy Hanukkah! Merry Winter

It’s definitely feeling like winter out there today and we are feeling quite festive at our house.  John really did a nice job attaching some twinkle lights to the major beams in the living room.  I love having them up, we don’t end up turning the beam lights on as much. I hope that everyone [...]

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