Itty Bitty Hooves

The Big Move

Aw you have to feel bad for babies at this time of year. Yep, it was weaning time yesterday. Actually it was weaning time for everybody except the very oldest… no not by choice, she slipped through the ranks and got in with the big girls. Maybe she just felt like being with all the bawling babies was beneath her–she is the oldest don’t you know.

I did make one kind of big mistake. I put all the mom’s over by the big barn and left the babies in the back by the old barn. That field just happens to be right by my office window so all last night I had babies crying for mommy in my ear.

It would have been a lot quieter with the mom’s over here. There wasn’t a peep out of them. They were probably all over there thinking ‘if I don’t say anything, maybe they’ll shut up!’

I’m pretty sure they were relieved to finally be rid of the brats… all but poor Boots. She still has her little hold out.

Foods You’re Supposed To Eat… or not

I’ve been burning so many midnight hours working and juggling the many different things around the house and family that I’m getting a little side-tracked on things like my diet. I should be taking some Phentermine. It’s not only an appetite surpressant it is a kick in the butt for a little energy. I could use a little energy right now. I don’t know about the appetite surpressant part. It isn’t really that I’ve been eating more. It’s that I’ve been eating wrong. Having to prepare foods for my mother in law going through chemo is tough because she’s so picky due to the drugs. The types of foods she WANTS to eat are not good for ME to eat. LOL But I’m too busy lately to cook seperate meals, so… maybe if I had a little more energy I’d burn off the foods I’m not supposed to eat.

The Times of Change

If you’re over 30 I bet you can remember a time when there were no cell phones. Okay, maybe over 40. I do. I remember back when all we had was one TV in the house too, and you can bet it wasn’t a LCD TV. There were no flat screens, no high-def, and a ‘big screen’ was one of those huge cumbersome console tv’s — maybe 36″ max. What ever did we do back then? Of course, there were only 4 regular channels too, and public access too if you were good enough at holding the rabbit ears in a certain way. Yes, rabbit ears. No satallite, no cable… just a couple of silly looking wire antennas that sat on top of the TV. Those were the days–not. The one thing that hasn’t changed in all these years is your kids looking at you with great big sad ‘puppy dog’ eyes and saying ‘There’s nothing on TV!’ (All 500 channels.)

A Little Cooperation Please

I sure wish my goats would learn to cooperate with me just a little bit. I have one… just one single goat that MIGHT be due to kid this summer. In fact in the next couple of weeks. Anytime between now and the 21st if she was already bred when I got her (which I’m seriously hoping she was). If she doesn’t kid in that time frame it will be early fall and it will be my buck’s offspring, which is fine too because they’ll be the first 100% ones born on the property. If she has a kid from the other buck it will be 100% too which is what I want… and a buck… (talk about being specific huh?) which I probably won’t get. My luck it will be a doe kid. Good to have too since it would be an unrelated doe kid to my buck but I really need an unrelated buck kid. Anyway, back to the cooperation… she’s not.

She doesn’t show any signs of being pregnant. I had a goat earlier this year like that. Looked completely normal. Of course, completely normal means big as a tank anyway. Even with being a really big framed goat though she didn’t have the ‘watermellon’ look that you pretty much expect from a goat in the final months. She ended up giving me three kids–so she was definately pregnant wouldn’t you say?

Bowie (the current goat in question) is a large, meaty, big-framed girl too, so there’s plenty of room in there for a kid or two, or three to hide, but the not knowing is just driving me crazy. I wish my goats would cooperate a little and have the decency to LOOK pregnant when they are. Even my vetran doe Polly hid it pretty well this spring, but she always does, and she always only has one kid… One big kid, but just one.

Thankfully all the rest of my girls had the good graces too look like water tankers during the final weeks, so there was no question as to their pregnant status.

A little cooperation from Bowie right now would be really nice.

More Memory

Can you believe that with a brand new computer, with a whopping 2 gig RAM I am still finding myself running out of memory toward the end of a long day of work. It seems like everytime I get a new computer I’m so impressed with the much larger size of everything and still find myself grasping for more. I need a room-sized computer. My husband really needs a boost in his laptop memory both hard-drive and RAM. His computer boots up SO slow it’s painful, and working on it takes forever because the Random Memory is so small. It’s not even that old. I think it’s about 2 years old. One thing I’ve found in looking around is that even though it sounds scary, adding memory cards is easy. It’s sort of like adding a modem–it sounds a lot scarier than it actually is when you get down to doing it.

Come to think of it, I could use a memory upgrade myself. The older I get the more I forget and slow down too.

Time To Start Thinking About the Possibilities

I’ve been rather large all my life, but I’ve been working really hard to combat that the last 9 months or so. I haven’t had to wear maternity clothes since I was pregnant but if I don’t keep working on the diet I may have to start looking into it. I was doing great too until this last week when for some reason everything started being too hard to resist and I had these incredible cravings. Um… maybe I need to seriously think about maternity clothes, no joke. I gained 2 pounds last week. That’s just not acceptable, unless I am pregnant. I’m not sure that’s acceptable either though.

Time to get back down to basics. I’d stopped writing down what I was eating, and paying close attention to the kinds of food I was gobbling down. I started working for a new company doing freelance work and with all the hours I’ve been putting in, I let myself get lazy on the food issue.

Time to stop that for sure.

Dancing Pygmy’s

This is just so adorable. Baby Pygmy goats ‘dancing’. Baby goats, baby kitties, and baby puppies are so much fun.They play and jump and you never get tired of watching them. Watch this cute video. I am definately going to have to get me some Pygmy goats!

Looking For RVs For Sale

Traveling the way Bob and I do to shows for all manner of livestock we always talk about how wonderful it would be to have one of those big RV’s we often see parked in the lot. Since very few people want to leave their valuable animals alone at the showgrounds over night while they go to hotels overnight, most stay on the grounds. We do too. Many of us sleep in spare stalls on cots, or even hay bales, some of us sleep in the trailers. We’ve done both. A select few travel in RV’s pulling their trailers along behind, and stay in complete comfort. Finally we are actively looking to join that set of travelers. We have been seeking out RVs For Sale on line and looking at RVs.com for some deals. This may just be the year. Another great point of finally getting an RV is that when we travel just for pleasure, we can do it in comfort. We need a large RV with the power to pull at least the three-horse with dressing room trailer. Most of them have hitches on the rear that will accomodate that. I personally have quite a little check-list for the ultimate RV. A bed, sitting area, and bathroom with shower is an absolute must. The kitchen area should have all the normal amenities. I’d love one with a built in outdoor cook area on the side as well. I’ve seen a few like that and really like that idea.

I’d also like an awning on the side so we can sit in the shade alongside for ‘trailer parties’. It’s those trailer parties that make the shows so much fun. There’s nothing better than relaxing after a long day of showing with all the fellow people on the grounds, drinking a cold drink, laughing and talking, then retiring to your RV for the night. I want to be one of the ones hosting those parties now. I am so anxious I can’t wait.

Speaking of Cruises

Here’s a video of a local Lake Shore Michigan cruise I took a few years ago. I loved it

Cruise Away

I have always dreamed of going on a cruise. What a fantastic vacation that would be, don’t you think? A lot of people love to take cruises for their vacations. For those of us that either aren’t familiar with the many, many available cruises, and how to book them, or just don’t have the time to wander about the internet looking for various comanies and destinations, there is the Cruise Center. The Cruise Center is your one-stop shop for all things cruise. When it comes to a shipboard vacation, you will find everything you need to know right on this site. You will get all the information you need take the luxury cruise of your dreams. You can see information on the ships, and the different types of cruises available. I’d like a Carribean cruise, Bob I just know would want the Alaskan picture cruise. Maybe we need to take two seperate cruises! What I like best is that the Cruise Center has all kinds of exlusive packages and offers. Maybe Bob and I really can afford seperate cruises. I’d prefer a trip with him though, but at least we can get the best deals around for the trip. The Cruise Center even has information on travel insurance, which is really important especially if you go to other country’s on the cruise. It’s something we don’t think about too often. They make sure you have all the information you need to have a safe and happy trip on your cruise vacation.