Thursday, July 5, 2012

Introducing Strike and Spare, Indian Runner Ducks at Gillis Hill Farm!



Listening in on a duck conversation...
What are they calling us?  I think she just called me "Strike" and I think she called you "Spare."  Thanks to James and Caroline Gillis for coming up with our new names!   Now we are Strike and Spare...They think we are bowling pins with legs!  Who would have guessed? 

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Happy Birthday America!



We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.                                                                                                                   The Preamble to the United States Constitution

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Fresh Goats Milk



Karen Stanger from End-O-Way Farm  gave Katerina, Mylena, and I  hand milking lessons and then we were on our own...This is the result!  Not bad for first time hand milking maidens Katerina and Mylena!    Poor Ellie, she did not eat on the stand, she kept bleating, and looking back at us.  On Karen's farm, all her goats stood on the stand and ate, no bleating!   I know we were not doing everything right on our own, but we did have fun doing it!  Poor Ellie will have to endure until the girls get the hang of hand milking a goat.