The Weekend

 Sometimes homesteading is like quicksand, you never know when things will shift. This weekend was one of those times. This past week we lost mama guinea and all her babies and yesterday another male to coyotes. The male was taken in broad daylight. Our weekend plan was to clean out the barn and start refencing the small lamb field. Well that didn't happen. Instead we had to reinforce the whole back pasture line. Apparently with all the heavy spring rains an area that we thought was secure was not and had washed out. Hubby hauled in rip rap and we got that placed. We also ran a second fence on top of the existing fence for added security. That took all day yesterday and half of today. Still a lot to do but it's secure for now until we get some more supplies to totally redo some of it. 

My sweet Violet is really close to calving, so we had to move her back to our front pasture that has the milking area and stanchion. 

That required us to hook up the trailer load her up and bring her here from the back field. She is so close! 

I finally have gotten my goat milking routine figured out. I decided to dry one of the girls up and milk the easiest one. It is going to work out well since she is giving almost 1/2 gallon a day. That will be plenty to freeze for soap and cheese making. Especially when Violet calves and we are getting gallons of milk from her.

It was a busy weekend but on a bright fun note we got to enjoy a birthday celebration with my mom who turned 81!