Fell a little behind again but no worries...not much has happened here at the farm.  A lot of the goats are starting to dry up...below is a pic of Kisses (brown goat with hairy legs!) with yellow tape on her leg...that means we only milk her in the AM and black tape means they're dry and we no longer milk them.  Today Thomas said we'll be switching to hand milking the left over goats in a week or so instead of using the machine.  I've definitely learned a lot in the last 3 weeks.  I feel like I've been here for so much longer.  It's never a day where you do the same thing though I will give it that...there's always some new project or something happening.  Rachel (one of the shop girls) told me more about Eva today and how once she gets home from Germany it'll be a whole new farm.  I'm so curious to meet her!  

Monday and Tuesday were my early shifts.  I milked in the AM and Tuesday did deliveries again...I knew this route much better since it's in Wailea where little and big beach are.  Pepe (our little buck who'll be used for breeding eventually) was moved into the kennel with one other male and all the other babies were moved into Pond.  Pepe's getting so big and starting to act like the typical billy goat.  He even peed on a human baby the other day!!  They can pee quite the distance haha.  It's typical for the males to urinate on females and themselves to get their scent on you.  The other day Bobby came over, rubbed his head on my leg, and nipped me...Thomas said it was a love bite.  Sure didnt' feel like it!  We also power washed the area by the milk stand...boy what a difference it made.  I had a little bit too much fun with it.  The power washer hadn't been used in 2 years!  So it was covered in dust and we found out the area where it was stored is the cat's bird graveyard...I couldn't use the shop vac to suck it all up.  Below is a pic of Ichelle with her new "Poi-proof" fence...he's been able to get to the ladies so we have to move him into his own enclosure during the day now.  Ichelle did a great job with the fence : )   Her and I had quite the time getting the wire stretcher to work haha but we did it!!  Definitely doing a variety of things here.  Monday I just had a terrible off day.  It was one of those days where you wake up and you know its gonna be one of those days.  I grabbed the wrong herd to milk first and spilled a bunch of oil (one of Eva's pet peeves) on the concrete when I was mixing grain...apparently laundry detergent helps to soak it up...good to know.  Oops!  Below is Harlequin, one of the goats Dan says looks from a romance novel....I don't see it haha. 

I also worked inside the dairy for the first time for a full shift.  I learned how to pack broken hearted cheese,  and pack flat bread's cheese, and mango cheese.  Jasmine made some tzaziki too and it was SO good.  The best part of working in the dairy is getting to taste test all the cheese haha.  That night us girls went to Paia to Charley's for some dinner and drinks.  We even met Jasmine and her friend and boyfriend there...the girls that work in the shop are so nice and are always wanting to hang out.  It's great to be able to hang out with local co-workers.  It's much more lonely only having two other people here!  

Today was my day off...well, kind of.  I got the pleasant surprise of a t-shirt arriving for me from Kevin.  He's been spoiling me.  Has anyone seen Grandma's Boy?  That's where I saw this shirt and thought it was super funny.   I spent a lot of the day cleaning our living area and the fridge and relaxing.  It was my productive day I guess you could say.  I heard back from the Haku Baldwin Center to volunteer in the pet therapy and animal education program.  Angel (our office manager) told me about it so hopefully I'll be starting soon.  Other than that I wrote some letters and then it was 2:30 and time to herd and milk.  I ended up covering Erin so she could go to the doctor...when her and I went to get Teddy from his zip line the other day she stepped on a spiky short bush weird and got a twig lodged in her leg!  I told her I'd cut it out and fix it but she wanted to go to the doctor to numb it...it was really stuck in there.  Today was also our first day of RAIN!!!  We actually got rain.  I think all my past Alaskan co-workers brought it on since they've been having such bad rain and cold and I've been bragging about the sunny hot weather here.  Even when it rains here its warm and not too dark and cloudy.  It rained HARD though.  We had to bring the babies in from pond because they were too dumb to figure out they had shelter haha and the golden girls to the barn stalls.  Goats hate rain so we have to move them to pastures with better shelters.  

Tomorrow is another Thursday delivery day...hope I don't get lost!!