New Life

I have a part-time job working for a woman Dr. that lives up the road from me.  I do a variety of tasks and one of them is to keep her animals fed and watered.  

About 6 months ago she got some goats to help with her ag exemption with the hope that they would eventually have babies. If the baby turned out to be a doe then she would either keep or sell to someone.  If the baby turned out to be a buck then she would have several decisions to make.  One would be that she would have to castrate it to be sold for Bar-B-Que or not castrate and sold to someone looking to expand their herd. 

 That may sound harsh for some of you out there but that's what life is like in the country.  You need to pull your own weight in some form or fashion or you are bound for greener pastures...and sometimes not on this earthly plain. 

These two adorable little guys were born not last night but the night before.  They are both little bucks so their fate will be decided in just a few short weeks.  But at this age they are almost too precious for words.  

We have two more momma's that are pregnant.  One will probably give birth within the next two weeks and the other momma will be a little later than that. 

With any luck the other does will give birth to girls.  At any rate we're looking forward to more babies in the near future.  

Poppies

Poppies, poppies...everywhere. 
Last fall my husband received a packet of Poppy seeds from a friend in Northern California and told me that if I wanted I could sprinkle them around the front yard.  So I did. 

For those of you that don't know about Poppy seeds...they are tiny...about the size of a pin head and I'm not talking about those glass heads...no way....about the size of a stainless steel pin head. 

So sprinkling them is a little difficult and hard to figure out just how many of those will take and how many will get eaten by various bugs and how many will just wash away in the rains. 

Well.......I guess that I did too good of a job cause we got a LOT of Poppies.  This particular variety is pink and the petals are kinda ruffley...is that a word????   

My husband was less than pleased...especially when you consider that each one of these blooms becomes a seed pod after the flower is spent and that seed pod contains hundreds of seeds.   He wasn't upset that we had the success of the blooms but he was upset because he felt like it might shade out other plants that were getting started at about the same time.  

So I have been very busy lately as the blooms have faded and produced the seed pods of gathering the seeds.  I know that I won't get every one but hopefully I'll gather enough to share and enough to sprinkle along the long drive to the house so that we have color next spring.