Sunshine Lambs

We have to separate Amelia and the lambs from Oprah and the goats. We expected the goats to maybe try and jump around too much with the lambs, but we weren't expecting Oprah to try and head butt them! It's making us slightly nervous that she is going to be a bad mom when she finally pops her lambs out...and she is *huge*. I can't believe she hasn't had them yet.

Amelia can't go more than a few steps without it being twin nursing time.

She lets us go up and hold them but she is super protective of them around the dogs - she rammed Ryan today when he was walking by and not even paying attention to them!

I swear I am not getting attached. Plus, the fact that their daddy is their grandpa means their fate is sealed. Sigh.

We got boxes and boxes of bread and dairy products and vegetables from a little farm down the road that has a grocery store source for expired food but not enough livestock to feed it all to. The pigs especially love the yoghurt...there is a reason that pigs are known for being messy!

We let Zoey in to play with the pigs and she came out covered in pig slobber and yoghurt. Luckily I had a 4 yr old visiting to help me give her a bath. It involved a lot of puppy screaming and cheese whiz.

 Zoey's big ears fell over! I hope they go back up after she's done teething (puppy ears can do strange things while puppies are teething).

We are going to have to put plastic down on the orchard. I'm disappointed that we couldn't try lasagna gardening - when I checked under the areas where we did put cardboard, the soil looked really nice. It was full of worms and didn't have grass growing back. Everywhere else, though, grass is making its way up through the layer of compost so we had to get our landlord to till it again (the parts that we hadn't planted yet) and we will find some plastic to block the weeds. At this point I just want our plants to do well! The broccoli and cabbage seedlings aren't looking great out there...now that the sun has made more of an appearance our fingers are crossed that they'll perk up.