Saverine

Saverine seems to be hanging on. She is more at ease with being in the pen, but I do not see much improvement from her. She is able to eat all her food and she is drinking well, but she is still not feeling well. I am not sure exactly what is going on with her, but I have talked to a few professionals and they do think her age is catching up to her. She is close to 30 years old. I just hate to see the decline. It hurts my heart. 

Alex

I make jokes sometimes, I know, you cannot imagine that. I was out around the cows. Ronnie was over by the horses. I was laughing and said something along the lines of I bet I could sit on this cow and he would not care. Ronnie I do not think believed me. I then draped myself over Alex and he did not move a muscle. I just laughed about it. Ronnie was rolling his eyes at me, but I thought it was funny. 

Yeller

Good ole Yeller. He was walking across the pasture and he was meowing all the way home. I do like to hear that. I know he learned that from Jelly. I sure miss that cat and I know Yeller does, too. I sure do like to hear him coming across the areas and letting me know he is out there and doing okay. I appreciate that Yeller lets me know where he is. 

Little Goats

For whatever reason the little goats were wanting some attention. They were up on that fence just waiting for me to come by. Those little goats are not the most friendly goats here on the farm, so when they are wanting some attention, I stop and give them the attention. They are such cute little animals. Porky still does not really want any attention, but the other two do. I do find it so interesting how some of them want love and some of them just want to be left alone. 

Pairing Up

Ronnie and I put Tinkerbelle in with Bill. I thought that would be a good thing. Cinderella is a bully and I am just figuring it out now after all these years. Tinkerbelle was losing weight and not looking good, so we put Tinkerbelle in with Bill. It is amazing to me, she is doing so well in there. She is gaining weight and seems to be happy in her old pen. I am glad that is working out. Bill was too terrified to stay in the pen with Prada, that is why he was moved. It is like musical chairs only with pens, and no music with these animals sometimes. 

Corn

When I go over into the pasture with corn in my hand, I might as well be prepared to get run over. Those 3 goats will run to me just to get to the corn, even Lucky. I will stop and give each of them a handful. Carlos, Hercules, and Lucky all love the feed. It just makes me laugh. I do seem to spoil them some, but why not? 

Remembering

The Chickens still love me. They are remembering what to do when I am around with food. They still will fly up to my shoulders and get food. I still am able to cuddle with them. I sure do love those chickens. I am so grateful I was able to train them to be able to sit up on my shoulders and that they can trust me. It makes me smile. 

Snowflake

I may have made a mistake. I do that sometimes, like we all do. I allowed Snowflake to sit on eggs. I did not think they would hatch, but I allowed her to sit on them. The week I was going to take them away, some of them got broken. The stink was awful. I would have moved them, but the other chickens started breaking them to get them out of there. I did have a mess to clean up. The bad thing is, Snowflake tried to sit on them while they were broken, so she had an awful stink to her. Well, I finally kicked her out of the shop for a bit to try to air her out. That might have been a bad mistake, too. She had to fight all the other hens. I am guessing it was because they had not seen her in so long and she smelled awful. That finally resolved itself and all is well. I will not make that mistake again. I will just take the eggs next time. I might get beat up, but I would rather get beat up than deal with all the other stuff. 

Lucky

Lucky is not one we talk about much. He usually tries to stay back away from all of us. He may do all kinds of funny stuff, but we never see it because he avoids us. That goat has never been too friendly. I still have no idea why. He has lived with us for 7 years and we have been good to him, so I guess that is just him. He was funny while the weather was coming in, he was stretched as far up as he could be to get some leaves from the tree. I am glad he is happy, that is all that matters. 

Cats Are Home

I do like to see when all the cats are at home. I know I say that a lot, but I feel it is so important to make sure they are home. I look for them daily to make sure. They do not usually make me look too hard. The stray makes me look for him sometimes, but he is not always here like the other ones. Now that Onyx has been seen across the street multiple times, I do look for them more. 

It’s May

Looks like we have rain coming in already. I will not complain. I hope it rains a lot. We sure do need it. West Texas is so dry. You can tell the animals are awaiting the rain to come in. I know they will love to have some cool weather before it gets extremely hot like it does in West Texas. I guess time will tell.