2012 Greetings from Golden Acres Ranch

Wow, the last few weeks have been a whirl. This will take a little time to catch up. I hardly know where to start.

I did spend a few hours every day the week before Christmas at Rosemary Tree Cafe and Gift Shop giving out samples of our jellies. It was a great success and a lot of fun. Visited with many friends and made new ones. Here in this little hometown spot, we met visitors of a local family who were from Anchorage, Alaska, who know our son, and who haved lived there 20 plus years. Other new friends came in with visiting nieces, nephews, sons, daughters and grandchildren. All were filled with the holiday spirit and it was contagious.

The week between Christmas and New Year’s was spent minding the farm. We are expecting lambs and kids. A few lambs were born, twins on the twenty-ninth, which brought us up to four for the month. We’re looking for many more very soon.

Now the goat momma’s are really keeping us in suspense. We have Mini-Myotonics (small Tennessee Fainting Goats) that were exposed to a male starting last June. He stayed for several months to see if the girls really liked him. Well, they apparently played hard-to-get because we are still waiting way past the five month gestation period. Some look like they are carrying basketballs in their little bodies and they are manufacturing milk so they should be close.

Most goat owners know that the momma (doe) looks you in the eye, snickers and resolves to wait until the coldest nastiest night to give birth. It’s 24 degrees outside this morning so I’m optimistic. I’ll get plenty of photos when it happens.