More babies!

 How do you get baby goats? Go out of town. Poor Scarlett has been looking like she was going to pop for the last 3 weeks, plus we have 3 others that should be expecting. I've been waiting and waiting for her kids, but Chuck and I had planned a weekend in Banner Elk for our 15th anniversary (awww!). Naturally, I got a call from Madison Saturday morning while I enjoyed the coffee and view- courtesy of The Banner Elk Winery and Villa. "Mom! Ebony had her baby-What do we do?!" Of course, having to be the welcome wagon for one kid is not enough.  Scarlett had 3 more Saturday night so Madison, Willow and Mimi could get in plenty of practice tying umbilical cords. They did a great job, and we have 4 new bucklings! Ebony's kidding went great, and her buckling is doing well. Scarlet has one buckling that is thriving but the other two are currently being bottle fed since they haven't been able to latch on and the little brown fellow had contracted tendons so we had to splint his front legs. We're calling him Forrest since Chuck had to make him his special walking shoes and the little black one we're feeding is being called Bubba. The other two have not been named yet.

Forrest - see his special shoes?

Bubba

Un-named buckling and Scarlett

Ebony's buckling

All the other animals are doing well. the baby bunnies will be ready for new homes in about 2 weeks. Anyone looking for Silver Fox pets or breeding stock? The chickies and duckies are together in a larger playpen and the rabbits are enjoying their new hutches as well. We'll have some more baby ducks soon- I thought Willow was gathering the black runner duck's eggs- nope.

Chickies and Duckies

Laying flock enjoying some leftover cake

New rabbit hutch- we have 2 of these now, plus the tractor.

Bunnies-we hold them a lot so they'll be good pets

Black Runner on her clutch 

We also have some baby plants! I have chard, carrots, lettuce and pea plants peaking through the soil. The strawberries are beginning to ripen - now to cover them so the chickens leave us some.

peaking plants

Strawberries

Wisteria in bloom

 For my inside projects- I've been sewing like mad! I'm so excited because I'm putting in a table at the WRD Spring Fling! I'm making plenty of shirts with WRD logos, but I'll also have a couple of ruffle purses, hair things, luggage tags and what not. Still need to get an e-commerce spot going. I'll be shopping around web designers if anyone has recommendations please send me an email.

Baby Taggie Blanket

Shorts with pockets and a sting ray

That's all for tonight- the new blogger interface was not playing nice.