My Dang Human

My dang human won't let me have computer time to post.



It's not like we've been boring around here, spending all our time out in pasture.  I have too many events to tell you about.



The big one is my darling doe Pebbles passed peacefully with the help of my favorite vet, Dr. Schmitz. He came because the CAE was making her life miserable and painful.  She couldn't even join us out in pasture.



As much as we all miss her, I'm so glad my girl is not hurting anymore.



Then the human tells me she's too busy with her blog and soap and keeping kids healthy.

I think it's a lot of excuses.  I'm going to have to butt her if she doesn't give me more computer time.

Dinner Time!

Pebbles and Sugar 

Blaze

Grandkids and Great-Grandkids

Pebbles have me more grandkids.  Two boys named Tom and Huck.









Her daughter Sugar gave me three great-grandkids!







She's too busy eating to name them yet.

Tapping a Lullaby

I was tapping a gentle lullaby this morning.

It was for my girl Pebbles and her brand new baby buck Amos.

He's an awfully cute grandkid I think.

"Maa, your beard tickles!"

It was also for my grandkid Sugar and her two new bucks, my great-grandkids.

I can't tell you their names yet because Sugar won't tell the human what she's named them.  I don't want to spoil the surprise of when Sugar announces them.

Moving Day

Today the human made me move. I left the west side of the barnyard with the human and she led me through the chicken pen (I got to sneak a bite of corn).

Then she took me to the north part. She says I'll be here until after my new baby is born.

I was kind of afraid that she was going to make me be by myself. I maa-ed to her that that was not okay.

Then she brought my girl Joe in with me.

I'm glad the human didn't make me stay by myself.

My girl Pebbles came over to see me.

I think we can be happy here, but my little girl Bambi isn't happy.

She wants to be with her maa.

I hope she'll be okay all by herself.

Like Mother Like Daughter

Is it just me, or is Cinnamon looking more and more like her maaaa, Pebbles?

Pretty soon, it's going to be hard to tell them apart.

That's okay because my Pebbles is a beautiful girl.

Jilly's Twins and Pebbles's Sextuplets

Jilly had twins yesterday! One looks an awful lot like her daddy, Marley, with Momma's wattles.

The other one is very cute too.

They're not new, but here is my girl Pebbles and her sextuplets. What? How does that girl keep gaining kids.

There's her triplets, Rocky, Bullwinkle, and Cinnamon, Annie's boy Fionn that adopted Pebbles after his mom rejected him, and her grandkids, Link and Copper.

Link, Copper, Bullwinkle, Cinnamon, Fionn (standing), Rocky, and Pebbles in front

I swear that girl is a kid magnet. At least she's only feeding two!

But it might be time to wean.

Pebbles and her Quadruplets

Meg and Pebbles had their fight this morning, and Meg is still the herd queen on that side of the fence. Everyone is well. and Pebbles isn't upset because she still has her quadruplets to keep her busy...

Pebbles, Bullwinkle, Fionn, Cinnamon, and Rocky

Wait. She doesn't have four babies! What's Fionn doing there? That silly kid of Annie's spends all his time with Pebbles and her three babies, even curling up to sleep at night. It's probably because he and Cinnamon have shared bottle time since they were just little kids.

A Murderous Plot

Look at how beautiful my girl Pebbles is. She is such a lovely lady, strong and smart, she deserves to be herd queen of the mom's pasture.

She hatched a plan to get rid of Meg. Then she would be herd queen! Unfortunately, the human noticed Meg was missing when she gave them their grain. She went out to pasture yelling, "Meg!" Over and over I had to listen to her as she went down to the ditch and all around to the back. Finally it quieted down until she got to the top of the hill when we heard an anguished, "Meg!" To hear the human tell it, Meg was lying still on her side with a fallen tree on top of her.

When Meg had reached under the fallen tree for a bite of grass, Pebbles slammed Meg causing her to slip in the wet grass. While she was down, Pebbles struck again. Now as you all know, a goat does not like reverse. Meg tried crawling forward to get out from under the tree and away from Pebbles, just as Pebbles knew she would. Mawhahahaha-Meg was stuck! Well, I guess I can see why the human would think Meg was dead (after all that was the plan).

She rushed to Meg's side and then to her front half on the other side of the tree. She was alive! She tried lifting the tree, but she's just one puny human. She tried turning Meg so she could get out, but she's just one puny human. Finally, she got Meg's back legs and pulled as hard as she could until Meg was finally pulled out from under the tree.

They walked to the barnyard with a bruised Meg, unsteady on her feet. They had to stop several times, but finally they made it. As soon as Pebbles saw the human had pulled Meg out to safety, her eyes flashed with anger and the challenge was on!

It would be a fight.

The human stayed there for a long time until she thought Pebbles had settled down. Then she went to get Meg some banamine to help with her sore swollen ribs. All was well when she came back out and gave Meg the medicine. When she went into the middle part of the barn, however, it was on!

The human decided that Pebbles would not quit (well of course not--victory was at hand). The human took Meg through the duck and peacock pen to put her in her own room in the barn with hay and a bucket of water. Then she went to go get Meg's boys, Xander and Xavier.

I don't know why she got mad at me. I mean, if she didn't want me to open the gate and go in, why didn't she hook the latch?

She really wasn't happy when she came out from putting Meg in the barn to find three peahens out. I don't know what she was grumbling about. They went right back in. Really, why was she not happy that I had gone in to have a little snack of grain? [This is a reenactment. See the peahens in the barn behind me. I can't believe the human fell for this.]

Well, Meg got some hay and the human said she was going for a glass of wine. Pebbles is not happy that her plan was foiled, but she'll come up with a new idea!

What? You might not believe me, but that's the way it happened. Honestly, it is.

Pebbles as Mother and More Kids

My darling daughter Pebbles is a very good mother. She's already taking her kids outside to play and get sunshine.

Our weather has turned very nice. She's already teaching them a very important skill--basking.

It looks like my grandkids are very advanced for their age.

They certainly seem to have this basking down.

Cinnamon really excels at this!

They certainly have this basking down pat. I wonder what she'll teach them next.

Oh yeah, Pam had twin girls.

Everyone is doing fine.