It's Been a Month? I have Kept My Journal. I Need To Fill In The Blanks

I've been quite busy! We have lambs, boy this year we had lots of them. Boy is right. We have only 2 ewe lambs. And a couple buck kids. But no a waste of money for breeding because the milk we're getting is divine and I love watching those little buck kids playing together while I milk. It's goat milk. I didn't make myself too clear on that, but one ewe I could milk. Our white ewe *sheep* had four lambs and she didn't designate one as a bummer this time. The sheep has the biggest udder I've ever seen on a ewe, ever!

We still have pregnant dogs. Darby is helping me so much with milking. I can't explain it, but trust me. That dog doesn't say a peep, but she's is everywhere and then again, right with me. She as good as my daughter's helping me and my right-hand girl. Laney is actually looking more and more like she took. We still aren't sure on her being pregnant. My husband is positive she's going to have puppies.

I've had pneumonia and it started with a tachycardia (Atrial Fib.) episode and a low-grade fever--that day was my marathon. It all started after I had cleaned-out some pens the day before. I haven't had a fever in years and I'm still am so congested. I think I may have inhaled some baby mice or something. Honestly sick and not a bit of giddy-up in any my steps. That all happened about the first part of May. I do have a heart defect, but it's all controlled with medication. A Firefighter husband is the best partner in the world.

Captain Steve Lazenby

This is an example of one day... like Yesterday and still Saturday, we went to see a parade, after all the morning chores including milking--we went to see my grand-daughter, Hannah be Miss Teen (photos coming) in the Fillmore Festival Parade. We saw a whole game of our grandson, Dallin pitching, hitting and winning his Little League game, then over to Ventura to pick-up some crazy yarn I've been yearning for and then off to my son's, to see my other grandson, Tanner and his new 12 string guitar and we were blessed by being serenaded and listened to him play acoustical guitar arrangements by others and his own songs.  We also returned lost keys and phone chargers from their camp-out the night before celebrating The Priesthood Commemoration. And on top of that, we even watched off-the-dock at the house (the beach house) and they all saw a shark (not so cool) and we watched an octopus chasing shrimp and all these crazy-colored crabs. Their dogs licked my Nike Cross-Trainers to a brilliant, bright white because my shoes were covered in goat milk. They almost look new again. hahahha with dog slobbers. I know that's sick, huh? Honest, they look great now. I'll add more later, it's late ... and I hate to cough and type at the same time.

Aww, Come On .. Cram More In A Day

I love that saying. I loved the blog that made it very clear that we can all be awesome in so many ways. Maybe that's why I feel so bogged-down. I'm trying to be awesome in so many ways and so all of them make me just blah. I want finish all my projects before all the next batch of lambs and goat kids. The lambs could come tonight or the end of the week and the kids are due on the 30th of April.

This is me ... and I don't know why this is all happening. I started on my genealogy and tons of names fly-out and jump at me, like they're saying, "Put me in your book." "Don't forget me." "Get all the names right." My intention is to do this all again in a new program and make sure all my names have sources and also having all the correct names. My Steve's mother just gave me a whole box full of genealogy. I am very excited. I am excited. Excited! Really.

Best Reminder, Ever!

I'm still on a diet, was there a bet going that I'd quit?

Oh My... What Have I Started?

I do love it and it's surrounding me right now. I've learned so much, just this week and somehow  a lot of the fog is clearing, but I know it's going to be a long process. My new goal is to try and do one family group sheet everyday and do it exactly right. I want to be perfect.

I totally wish knitting was so cute and enjoyable right now! I've started knitting in the round and let me tell you those knitting needles with fishing line aren't good for anything except maybe picking the cotton out of medicine bottles. My daughter wanted me to make this cute little skirt. I know I can make it, but the soft yarn was a double spun and a little elastic. Fishing line and elastic yarn, hmmmm. It was a fight from the beginning picking up each stitch, up and over to the needle tops and then knit it and try and scoot it down again and then the stupid "fishing line" would flip back and forth having a memory of being looped like an old watering hose. I ordered a new type of knitting needle and if it works, I will put it on my blog so I will remember the shop I bought it!  I would love for this to go easier. No wonder Bernet Yarn is discontinuing their line of elastic yarn because there're no needles in the tri-counties that make it easy to knit. (actually impossible) I'm really looking forward to making these little skirts.

My Mess Just Waiting For Some Maybe Great Needles?

Here's my other project. I've only promised to finish this since Christmas. I've manage to paint the gold and silver bottle caps and now the white. That Rust-preventative type pain paint, doesn't work. The rainy-mist yesterday made my bottle caps rust through the white. So I did it all over again. One more time with the red caps and I can look for the little, sweet pictures. My grand daughters want put their own pictures on the inside of the caps with resin and then on "dog-chains" or little pin-backs that I bought over an year ago.

Believe it or not I have a big area to clean-out and need to redecorate and my walk-in bathroom closet is already sanded and ready for primer. This isn't a summer project, not at all. It needs to be the Spring.

So much is going great with our farm. Steve's getting someone to bring us some good soil for our bins and we are "going-to-town" with our garden. Plans include a greenhouse for the winter and we've got all the needed supplies already. We don't need that yet, just love pondering it my head.

I have another small project I had to paint but it may have not worked, but I'm not going to add it here because I may be producing a flop. My dear husband may come to my rescue by throwing it in the trash. hahahaha. Better place for it anyway.

Great Flowers Without Us Even Trying. Matilija Poppies

I thought if I listed all that I have that I'm working on right now--not mentioning the tending of our grand children. I might feel a bit overwhelmed. I know I have a horse to move and give shots to two of them. They love that (naht-ugh) and Sonny is in this total high-gear "twitter-patted" manic-state of Spring. He'll be NOT fun to move. I have his picture at the top of my blog. He's the black Bashkir Curly that's so cute that when he nips at you, ya' think he's giving-out kisses. *Truly I'm blessed to have fun stuff to do*

Funny, I don't feel stressed, hurried, or overwhelmed. I'll just do what I feel up to be doing and the rest will just wait. Goat kids and lambs can come and I can start milking and now I think I'm going to bed. Wow, I forgot. I'm going to be milking again. Milking?