Hello readers!  Another week gone by and I'm back to my favorite coffee shop in Maui blogging.  It's been a busy week at the farm as usual.  More babies have been born and we're down to 6 mamas on "maternity leave"!  It's hard to believe we're almost done with the kidding season.  The yearlings still have yet to give birth but that won't be for another few weeks or so.  It's kind of weird/funny to see them getting all big and pregnant and developing udders.  Does can start getting pregnant at 10 months.  I remember seeing them as little guys when I first arrived at the farm and here they are getting all grown up and about to have babies of their own!  Is that what it's like to be a parent?  Haha.  

Well the two does that stick out in the last week have been Rosalee and Alexandra.  Or should I say pain in the butt one and two...these two are part of the "pond girls" who have formed a goat clique.  That's right, like humans goats form cliques!  I hadn't realized they were moved to the dry herd because it was on my day off and when I went back to work I kept seeing these three goats hanging out together far away from the others.  That's weird...what are they isolating together??  Nope, just doing their own thing as outsiders.  Ok so they can have their own club if they want but they have to take it a step further and be the three escape artists.  They continually jump up on the feeders in the pasture and jump out then just graze where ever they want all day.  It's gotten to a point where we just ignore them and let them do their thing.  So Mandolin still has a bun in the oven but Rosalee and Alexandra gave birth within a day or two of each other.  Weird...Kaitlyn and Gertrude (the two besties) did the same thing.  Not only did they give birth at a similar time but they both keep escaping to find their kids.  Because we hand raise the moms will have a couple days or so of calling for their young.  Most moms let it go pretty quick I've seen but some, like Scout, seem very interested in everything baby.  So these two are found walking around searching for kids and let me tell you its not that easy to move a determined mother when she's set her mind on looking for kids.  Thank god for Ghiradelli.  Teo even found Rosalee roaming the barn at midnight!  She heard a goat from her room late that night and knew it couldn't be Nancy who's in the sick stall so she went out of her room and sure enough there's Rosalee who escaped from Manhattan.  Guess we know the electric fence doesn't work haha.  If we turn the electric fence on the day pasture it's not so bad because the two will go off with the rest of the herd and graze for the day however Alexandra's udder is very swollen on the right side requiring DMSO and hot compress massages three times a day...meaning we have to keep her on a pasture nearby.  O boy....is she loud.  Hopefully she gets better soon!  

I booked my flight to Alaska today meaning my leaving soon is becoming more and more of a reality.  I made my list of things to do before I leave so I better get to it!  It's too bad the picture above doesn't give the sunset we had yesterday at the farm justice.  This may just be the most beautiful farm I'll ever work at.