Catching up…….

Tuesday I drove to Port Arthur to our accountant’s office to take care of income taxes and then drove back to Houston to stay in Motel with my brother and sister-in-law.  My brother was having an arteriogram the next morning at St. Luke’s.  We received good news in the fact that he doesn’t need by pass surgery although his heart is weak.

I then got a hair cut and drove home to try and catch up with being gone 2 days.  Roy had come home from work and fed  Missy and Prissy Tuesday evening and Wed. morn and then left on a 3 day fishing trip.

Yes, I guess I forgot to tell you I had two baby goats in the playpen.  Prissy is a sister to Missy and had a neck problem, she couldn’t hold her head up, so she couldn’t suck from her mother.

By the time I got home Wednesday, the babies were starving and so were all the dogs and the ducks….then I fell over……..

Thursday started at 3:30…crying hungry babies and a ice chest full of shrimp I bought in Port Arthur on Tuesday. I count my shrimp when I put them up instead of using pounds.  I beheaded 1100 ( yes) shrimp and put them in freezer.

Gloria was here cleaning the house, so I took a stroll out to the pasture to check on expecting nannies.  Brightie was over the hill and she had a new baby and a big one.  He is a paint and beautiful. I think we will name him War Cloud.

I heard Mamma crying and found her in the old shed about to have a baby.  I left her and returned about thirty minutes later and she had three black and brown babies.  I went to get some hay to cover the dirty floor and when I came back there were four, three boys and 1 girl.  They were all doing great when I left them last night.  Only my sweet Mamma could take care of 4 babies.  Mamma and I are old friends, so I could help her take the sacks off her babies and I made sure their faces were clean.  The dogs also help, they will come and lick the babies.  I am anxious for daylight to check on them.

We now have 10 babies and still have 3 or 4 expecting nannies.  This is a wonderful time on the ranch.  New babies are so much fun to watch. They are part of God’s world and I treasure them.

Yes, my new camera has completely quit working and I took pictures with my very old one and there is no program to open them, I am still trying.

Well, hope you were not bored with my posting today, guess I need to start a new day ….Purple Goat Lady and her 10 new Babies..the care and feeding of baby goats. The only problem I would be the only one to participate.

Going to try and find way to open yesterdays pictures.

Have a great day and if you have any spare time, drop in and hold or feed a baby goat.

You will be amazed how they touch your heart.

See Y’all

Mama Barbara