January 2018 - goats

When we got back from the holidays, we went searching for left over Christmas trees to feed the goats.  They love munching on the needles and even eventually strip the bark if the trees don't dry out too quickly.  One of Emily's coworkers wanted to bring her tree over since they like to keep their tree up past the time the county comes and picks them up for mulch.

We found a big pile of trees in the park by Jared's house and so we filled Jared's truck up with them.  We even brought home a fake tall Alpine tree with the lights still on it!  People are really weird.  Do they think the dump can mulch that?  Anyway, after we brought them home we took some pictures.

We wanted to post on facebook to invite anybody in the ward that still had their tree to bring them on over.

Problem was, the goats weren't that interested :)

Tulip nibbled, but they had already eaten hay and grain that morning and so weren't feeling it.

Emily is hiding cookies in the trees :)

It looks like Dot is eating it, right?

And there is Spots in her coat.

I made her a couple coats since she is older now and suffers more from the cold.  It kept the goats from sleeping in the sheds on warmer nights... makes cleaning the sheds out in the spring MUCH easier.  This one is made from a table cloth Mom gave us that I cut down.  It wasn't quite wide enough so I supplemented with left over fake suede from making my Robin Hood halloween outfit.  So pretty!  She just tore those coats up.. something she rubs against must have a nail.  You can see how I tried to patch it with old jean material.  I made one out of canvas as well but it didn't hold up any better.  Still, they got her through the winter and now I have a very servicable goat coat pattern :)

We got one more Christmas tree from a ward member and then a ward member from down the street brought all her roses clippings.  They LOVE those!  Its crazy to watch them eat something so pokey... and it doesn't hurt their mouth.

One Sunday Aaron and Emily got up into the attic... I don't remember why but I sure took a picture.  I was responsible for bringing lights for them to see.

You know I take the dogs out to run every night where they are building a soccer accadomy with the accompaning practice statiums and fields.  They are also building houses.  I've been following the progress of 2 model homes they are building.  Those houses go up SO FAST.  I found the plans for one of them inside.

Pretty big homes on tiny lots.  The area I take the dogs is getting smaller and smaller and when all the lots are filled with homes we may have to deal with people out and about for Daisy and Cooper to bark at.  Sigh.  Guess we will cross that bridge when we come to it.

I've been knitting quite a bit once I remembered I have these cute great nephews to knit/crochet for.  Baby stuff is so much fun because you finish the project before you have a chance to get bored of it.  This is especially important when it comes to socks :).

Here I'm trying to get a picture of Joseph wearing the hat.   He doesn't actually like wearing it :)

See the cute baby on the phone? (The hat is skulls and crossbones)

That didn't work so I distracted him with treats... I did a great job with the hat if I do say so myself.

Megan took some pictures of Lincoln sporting my presents as well (I stole these pictures off her blog since I lost the ones she sent me on my phone... that story will be told in the May post).

We continue the out to eat on Saturday night tradition, even though we are not too tired from working in the garden/preserving to make dinner.  Sometimes we go to fancy places... when Emily picks :).

Yeah, so its June but I'm pretending I posted this in February.