Hello? Is anyone out there?

My husband, Steve convinced me to try this blog. I only heard of this word two months ago. Now here I am trying to create one......

It is Monday after Thanksgiving and the real world calls to me. The frost was so thick this morning that my youngest had a hard time breaking the ice on the water buckets for the animals. The young goats all cried out to be let out into the field but I knew they would just huddle together in the shelter so I left them in their "lounging barn"- just a converted old car port. The meat chicks are growing so fast and they, as well as all the layers, came running up to my son when he went to feed them this morning. There isn't much for them to eat when the ground is so frozen. I sent out some extra oatmeal for them from our breakfast. My oldest daughter appreciated the recent new addition of hot water to the milking parlour when she went out to milk this morning. I'm sure the goats appreciated having nice warm water on their udders when they were washed up. They are coming to the end of their milking season as we will be drying them off soon so they can have the last two months of their pregnancy to sit back and relax and restore their energies.

I am looking forward to spending this "dry" time on advancing our dairy plans. So far so good. The inspector came out last summer when I wanted to ask if they were going to let me be a raw dairy (very, very few of us). He scratched his head and let me know that as long as we jumped through all the hoops and followed all the regulations it seemed likely. Other states have vehemently opposed such a thing and have even declared out right war on raw dairies. So I feel somewhat encouraged. We'll see. If not I'll develop a goat share. What's a goat share? Just like a company share. You own one or more parts of a goat and therefore you get to drink milk from your own animal. I wonder what Wall Street would think of that?