Winter with a vengeance!

It seems winter has arrived with a vengeance, and is staying PUT! Since Christmas we've had at least one snowstorm a week, and last week we had three. At one point DS only had one day of school - the Monday was a holiday, Tuesday and Friday were snow days; he attended on Wednesday and had a dentist appointment on Thursday. Wow!

Two weeks ago, I managed to snag some Christmas trees at the dump for the goats to snack on. This is Sally, our temporary boarder, enjoying one of the trees.

Sally was here for a month, to be bred to Tuvok. He is turning into quite the handsome buck. It seems sometime in December he stopped looking like a kid, and started looking like a full-grown goat!

Quinn is now 4-1/2 months old, and growing like a weed! She was 24 lbs when we went for our last vet visit. She is now finished with her shots for a year, and a very healthy little girl. She is definitely going to be bigger than Zoey, who is fairly small at only 35 lbs and maybe 18 inches tall.

This is our gray kitty, Diva, now almost 7 months old, and due to go in and be spayed in early February. She was watching the big fat snowflakes during our last storm. They were coming tantalizingly close to the window, and she wanted to chase them.

Finally, I moved all the chickens together recently. We had a very cold snap earlier this month, and the bulb in the growing pen went out (second one) so I put all the chickens together for warmth. The Chanteclers look like full-grown chickens now, just 2/3 the size. I still can't tell which ones are pullets and which ones are cockerels, but someone else wrote about their Chanteclers and mentioned that it was difficult to sex them until after they hit four months of age. I'm sure we'll be able to tell soon enough.

Yesterday Sally was picked up. Before her owners came to get her, I trimmed nails on all five of the goats. That left me a little tired and sore! I was happy to be done, though. They all needed it. Karma and Gloria are looking especially fat. I'm thinking next month we'll have baby goats running around, and I'll soon have my goat milk supply back! I'm looking forward to learning to make more cheese this year, and hoping for a cream separator for butter...