Guns and ammo

Guns and ammo

We’ve only recently added guns to our lives – before that an occasional shoot with Dave Fisher was all I could get in. About 5 years ago my Dad gave me a 12 gauge shot gun for Christmas – an older Mossberg – and its been loads of fun! We...

Honey… lovely honey

This is one of my favorite times of the year – you might be saying “you’re nuts!”  The temperature has recently fell below 100 degrees here in North Texas – yeah… 99 degrees, a cold front I know.  It’s humid to boot.  So what...

Homemade cheese – the quick method

So we’re floating away in milk… we need to do something… and letting the girls drink all the milk they wanted wasn’t the answer – although they try every day. The answer was cheese.  Homemade cheese – why not!?  I know it takes lots of milk to make cheese so...

Floating away in a river of milk

We’re floating in milk!  We now have 3 dairy goats we’re milking – Tam was a pain to start with but is now our best milker!  Handles good – tame – easy to milk… the best!  Princes Leia is a Lamancha (the goat with no ears) and she’s small and...

Unbeknown to me there was a surprise in the milk tonight.

I finished milking tonight and Laurie filtered it while I went about the rest of the chores. As she looks in the milk pail there is something colored – maybe a little bit of dirt… ‘It will get filtered out” she thinks to herself… then...

PS, you don’t know your own strength

Monday morning when Clara and I were feeding the cows (this sounds strangely familiar) I was almost gored by PS. He was hungry, and is quite playful, but 1 ton of muscle rearing up his head (which happens to have a nice pointy horn on it) and catching you right above...