Home is where your Herd is

12/11/2025

11/07/2025

❤️

🐐 GOATS.

They just die.
No warning, no explanation — just “boop, I’m out.”
They really take the “live” out of livestock. 😅

Too much alfalfa? ➡️ Bloat.
Too little alfalfa? ➡️ Malnourished.
Too much feed? ➡️ Urinary calculi.
Too little feed? ➡️ “How dare you starve me.”
Use the wrong wormer when they’re pregnant? ➡️ Abortions.
Use the “safe” wormer instead? ➡️ The worms throw a party because it doesn’t even phase them.

And fences? Oh please.
To a goat, a fence isn’t a boundary — it’s an IQ test.
And they always pass. 🤦‍♀️
Hot wire? They’ll test it.
Field fence? They’ll climb it.
Cattle panel? “Challenge accepted.”
If there’s a way out, they’ll find it — and if there’s not, they’ll make one.

Toys? Oh, you mean hazards.
“Let me just stick my leg in that bucket real quick.”
“Oh look, a hay feeder — perfect for getting my horn stuck right before feeding time.”
Water trough? Great place to stand in with my poop-covered hooves. 🙃

And then there’s the babies.
Might have one. Might have five.
But she’s only feeding two — and it’s never the ones you want her to.
Bottle babies? Congrats! You’ve just gained a screaming, milk-drunk toddler that will follow you everywhere and cry like it’s being murdered every time you walk by. 🍼

They’ll climb on your car, chew your hair, eat your feed scoop, and somehow escape the most secure pen known to mankind just to stand on your porch and yell at you through the window.

But then… they nuzzle your hand, wag their little tails, and look at you with those big square eyes — and somehow you forget everything they just did. 💕

Because goat people are just built different.
We love these tiny chaos machines, no matter how many times they make us question every life choice that led to owning them.

11/04/2025

Lol

10/02/2025

RIP to my favorite Blenders sunglasses that just got ripped off my head by a branch and ate up by the bush hog 😭😭😭

09/01/2025

I'm excited My Pampered Chef party has started! I really would love you to join. There will be games, prizes and so much fun! 🎉🎉 If you can see this, click the link below to head over to see all of the products in action, live cooking demos and so much more! 😀 https://table.pamperedchef.com/party/2349641yqi?inviteSource=direct&t=1755528730756

06/22/2025

Peanut update +
Momma finally decided to give up on the other eggs and come off the nest. So for the last few days her and Peanut have been out in the yard teaching/learning how to be a big chicken. They are so stinking cute together 😍
This other momma, I've been calling Grumpy, has her hands full... I'd probably be a little grumpy if I had 11 babies to keep alive 24/7 too!
My teenage orphans ventured out for the 1st time yesterday and they came back at dusk just like they're supposed to. Yay!
I've been watching a wild turkey in our main field for a week or so and this morning I realized she has at least 6 babies with her!
We are also expecting duckings to hatch soon too.
So there's baby birds everywhere!!

06/09/2025

I wasn’t prepared for this part of homesteading.
No one really talks about it.
Not in the starter guides. Not in the feed store. Not on the sunny Instagram reels.

The part where you pour your heart into something—
into someone—
and lose them anyway.

The chick you helped hatch.
The goat you stayed up with all night.
The duckling that followed your kids around the yard.
The quiet moments when you whisper “come on, baby” and they still slip away.

I didn’t expect how heavy it would hit.
I didn’t realize how quickly a little life could become part of your every day.
How deeply you could grieve something so small.

And still—we do it again.
We mend the fence.
We clean the stall.
We gather eggs with a lump in our throat.

Because this is part of the life we chose.
A life full of sunrises and heartbreak.
Of muddy boots and miracles.
Of losing, and loving, and doing it all again.

No, it never gets easier.
You just learn to keep going.
To hold the hard alongside the beautiful.
To let your heart break open and still believe in new life.

That’s the farm life.
That’s the cost of raising anything worth loving.

05/30/2025

Toonie blocking the whole fan: Doesn't this fan feel wonderful!
Me cleaning the stall: 🥵