January 2008 - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!  The temperature has really dropped - it was only 10 degrees when I got up New Year's morning!  More snow is on the way, but it HAS to warm up to snow doesn't it?  We just need to hang gates an the kidding pens and figure out how we are going to hang water buckets and we are set!  Our does on deck to kid first are starting to really round out!  Time to haul in straw!

February 2008 - Well, this month has flown by full of snow and wind storms!  Our yearling Alpine has proven to be open this year and we lost both of one of Aaron's Mini-Alpine's kids - we were all very sad but as Aaron puts it, the Lord will have  a couple of great junior kids to show!

April 2008 - March was a very busy month!  Soccer and tennis both started just as kidding got going!  Zach's yearling Nubian had a very hard delivery of a single malformed kid - there is a term for it and if someone could let me know what it is or send me some links I would appreciate it.  The kid's organs had formed on the outside of its body and its spine was in two pieces that had fused.  Luckily we have a more experience goat owner near by who was able to pull the kid and the doe has recovered nicely and is milking.  With only the grade Saanen to go, our count is four doelings and three bucklings.  We were pleased to see that our young buck settled both does he bred first try and is he ever the proud papa!  Spring is teasing us - comes and goes as we prepare for our first show on Mother's Day week-end.