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Spring creeps closer

Spring is creeping closer to reality. Green grass is starting to poke through the soil, and today we had our first major thunderstorm and flash flood of the season. The creek to the north of the village went way over its banks, and our neighbor’s pasture is now totally flooded. I’ve never actually seen it [...]

Thinking more about raising goats

I think that getting and raising some goats is a real possibility for this year. Our good friends at the Possibility Alliance have three pregnant Alpine goats which are due to birth this April. They’ll have up to nine kids to deal with, one of which they want to keep, and it seems likely there [...]