around here

We have been so busy with getting into a routine with the bottle babies, feeding them every three hours now. We are able to not feed them during the night now. He is my constant companion. When you have to bottle feed goats they think you're their mamma and want to be by your side for eternity. Opal the real mamma was a bottle baby and never leaves my side when I'm outside. Definitely pros and cons about that.

Our new adventure this week ~ quinoa. We have tried it as a warm cereal (I like it better cooled off) with toasted coconut, strawberries, and bananas. Also quinoa meatballs. They were actually quite flavorful and yummy!

The garden has been started. We found a great place that sells wood chips for a pretty reasonable price. We went and got the trailer filled to busting. I choose to do just a smallish space 24x24 with plans to add to it as we go. We layed thick cardboard down first then wood chips on top of that. We will plant right into the wood chips. This is a great almost maintenance free garden method filled with nutrients for plants. It should only require very little weeding and watering.

Baby is teething...rough nights with little sleep. Driving practice is taking place, lots of outside play, the library and our local pizza/play center has been visited. Lots of yard clean up, milking, and chasing goats away from trees and off the porch when they are let out to graze.

A good ~ full ~ blessed week!

JM