The Goat Woman

We have a goat that needs wide load signs! We’re pretty sure Miss Maggie is due in December – Could we have our first case of quads???? Don’t know, hopefully just two healthy does. Two other does are probably due in December too – we’re watching them close. What a crazy time to be in the barn birthing animals! (Good thing the barn is getting bigger & the girls will have single stalls – no more of them all escaping at the same time – poor Nathan!).

Kitchen is done!!! Yeh Pat! Soap/sundries room is almost completely painted and re-stocked. Yes, it looks like a bee!
Pat is getting all the windows/sliders to get the back porch turned into a country store for the months of the CSA – should be awesome. He’s so wonderful to get all these pretty things done for me – just in time for the last cheese class of this year.

Goat shares – we’re not going to be in the goat share business any more. We’ve decided that since the goat share area is gray about it’s legality, we are going to not do anything that could be considered illegal. I do not want to prove that I do not own the goats. We will be doing boarding instead. Your goat, your milk, your babies, etc. This saves us from taking all the risks inherent in goat shares.

We have 4 new baby turkeys – we had 5, but one drowned. We moved mother and babies to the broken chicken tractor so they’d be protected for about 4 weeks. In that time they are so fragile – but after that time you can hardly hurt a turkey.

Next week is the Souled-Out Women’s conference and yesterday the boys and I spent a few hours in Versailles making products. We have to return Saturday to finish up. Our regularly scheduled shows start Oct. 3rd – Lakota West. – they continue thru the first weekend in December. Mostly OH shows – and all juried. We hope to be at Cooper HS in KY the weekend before the huge Ryle HS show (which we’re at too).

We’ve added two scents to our line-up: a Candy Apple that is supposed to be a type of the BBW Candy Apple – this one will be labeled Apple Dulce(will start in shampoo and body wash) and the other is a type of the Herbal Essences scent (oh so close and wonderful) that we have named Herbal Extravaganza. I love it when people ask for scents and they turn out to be more than we had ever dreamed they would be.

Note on scents: Almond sells 3/1 over any other scent and the new Violet is so clean smelling that it’s fast becoming my son’s favorite scent – not flowery and hard to explain, but so CLEAN. Thanks Joan for NEEDING this scent!

Time to get back to school and cleaning . . . I have a lot of catch up to do before people come tomorrow to visit the farm. It won’t get all done – but here it’s 24/7 and you never get it “done”. Something always breaks, gets sick or gets interrupted by something more pressing.

Blessings from Marilyn,

aka: The Goat Woman