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Jul
23

Daily Farmhouse Journal

It’s that time again, when I randomly poke my finger at the calendar to select a day (since the last time I did it), then input the number of comments on that day’s post in Random.org’s Integer Generator to choose the recipient of a $50 Amazon gift certificate. And so I poked my finger, eyes closed, at the calendar and came up with July 17th, which was the day I talked about my camera. There were 53 comments (as of this writing) on that post, and when I inputted that range online, I came up with:

Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:
29
Timestamp: 2008-07-22 19:50:43 UTC

And that comment belongs to….

“You’ve inspired me to get my camera out and start snappin’ away!”
-Bertie

Bertie, email me! (There is a Contact Me link at the top of the sidebar.)

I’ll be doing this again. All you have to do is comment on daily posts to be in the drawing. Thank you for being here and for keeping me company!

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And now announcing….

Nutmeg and Honey are the doeling and buckling names that won, hands down, in the poll! Thank you all for helping me name the babies! It’s a good thing Honey’s going to be wethered because nobody would take a buck named Honey seriously. But Honey is going to be my sweet boy, my wether, and when we get our buck and he goes to the buck pen, I think it would be funny to pair Honey up with a buck named something tough like Bruiser.

Clover and the two babies are scheduled to arrive on Friday evening. We have fencing, goat food (sweet mule feed), and goat treats (animal crackers). I have no idea what I’m doing. I don’t know how to milk. I don’t know how to make cheese. I don’t know how to take care of goats. I went into the little store in town to buy the sweet mule feed and Faye was manning the counter. I said, “What do I need for milking?” She held up her hand and said, “This.” She is so practical. Apparently, they weren’t selling magic knowledge and experience at the little store this week.

I wonder if I can get Georgia to do it…. She could come over every day. Except for the thing about how she can’t drive down our road.

I’M ON MY OWN.

This is going to be an adventure!! Come along with me?


Posted by Suzanne McMinn @ 5:05 am | Permalink  

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Jul
22

Daily Farmhouse Journal

I don’t want to let you go.





I don’t want to give you to the goats.

I know I will still see you and sometimes you can come up the stairs to visit me, but I’m going to miss you being here all the time. I’m going to miss how you bounce across the porch on your giant puppy paws and how you pretend to just accidentally “fall” inside the house if you find the door cracked open for a minute. I’m going to miss how you go to bed with the farm shih-tsu on the big pink blanket and how you just collapse like you’re dead-going from 100 mph to zero in one second-when you’re ready to sleep. I’m going to miss how you get up at 6 am and start dragging that pink blanket around and how the farm shih-tsu tries to bite your head off for waking him up when you throw him off it. And I’m really going to miss how you pick up your food bowl in your mouth and carry it to me when you’re hungry.





I’m going to miss how you like your belly rubbed when you stretch out on the porch and how you find the most ridiculous positions-and places-to sleep.





I’m going to miss how you like to follow me all over the farm and ride in my car. And I know the chickens are going to miss how you like to come with me to let them out every morning and put them away every night.





I’m going to miss how you used to fit into the washtub and how you used to be clean.





I know that what you have to do now is important, and I know that you will be good at your job.





But I’m going to miss how you used to love me more than you love the goats because I know that soon you won’t.

P.S. Don’t forget who gave you all those Snausages.





P.P.S. I have more.


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