Hazel in love

Usually I wake up to “Mama, I have to go pee in my potty!” or “Mama, I’m jumping on your bed!” but this morning I woke up to “Mehhh, MEEEHHHH!!!!” I kinda freaked out a bit when I got outside and realized that my baby girl Hazel (a goat) was well on her way [...]

“no one poos standing up, not even grandma.”

Well, we were doing so well with potty training, then Zoe saw her dad pee in the woods. Standing up. So now she pees and poos in the grownup potty. Standing up. On the seat. Except, she doesn’t actually end up peeing and pooing in the potty, rather on the [...]

my furniture is confused.

Moving into yurts is a lot like moving into anything else, I guess. Not a tidy process. But, the process is moving forward! We have most of the furniture moved in, but it’s just lying around willy nilly. The kitchen is there, but without a dividing wall to stand against. The [...]

bubbles and brown-nosing

I only made two batches of soap this week, but I’m super happy with how they turned out. The greenish swirled one is called Peppermilk, and is made with goat’s milk and peppermint EO. Surprise! The other one is scented with fig and red currant FO, and vegan friendly. It’s [...]

chickens in mail trucks

Our chicks arrived in the mail yesterday from Mt. Healthy Hatchery in Cincinnati. I guess they can’t count very well in Ohio, because what was supposed to be an order of fifteen birds each of two breeds manifested itself as thirteen buff orpingtons and sixteen golden laced wyandottes. Oh well, only one short [...]