Just a little update

Hey guys.  It's been a long time! I can hardly believe that I haven't been posting for nearly four months! Anyways, I thought that it was about time to give ya'll a little update!

(Forgive the photos.  I really need to get a camera, as Mom's phone is absoloutely not cutting the cheese.  All of the photos are so blurry.)

Wayne's rash wasn't healing, and he was also chewing it really bad, so Dad simply cut the cast and took it all off of his foot (it technically wasn't supposed to be taken off yet).  He said that Wayne would pack his foot for awhile, but it would soon heal and he was done with this vet stuff (I'm sure Wayne was extremely grateful).

He carried his foot for a couple weeks, gradually putting more and more weight on it, and limped on it for awhile.  His limp has been getting better, and now it's basically gone. 

Because Duke is gone, Wayne and Junior are able to be lose again all day.  When Duke was alive, he would be lose all day, while Wayne and Junior were kenneled.  Then we would kennel Duke all night while Wayne and Junior were lose.  Now Wayne and Junior can be lose all the time.

Grandma and Vindicator were taken to a guy's house to get bred to his bull.  After being pastured out there in his pasture with all of his Herefords, she went through her cycle and possibly got bred.  We're not sure yet.  Anyways, she got a mild case of pink eye, so she is back home while we doctor her.

Vindicator

The goats have virtually lived all summer in the pasture next door, and haven't been fed hay at all but have been forced to eat the weeds.  It did them good.  Sugar was starting to get rather fat.  Now they have slimmed down some.  It's been a nice "vacation" from milking, as this is the first year since we got goats that we aren't milking.  We've all been enjoying it!

Since we got rid of the cats a long time back, this summer we have had a bit of a rodent infestation.  Wayne and Junior have been hunting ground squirrels, which have been invading while we had Duke (he was a city slicker, and never went out into the pastures to kill them, and Wayne and Junior couldn't 'cause they were kenneled all day as a stated before).  Wayne and Junior also killed a pack rat! Eww!

We have also been having mice in the shop (which Wayne and Junior have also been hunting) as well as some in the house.  Out came the mouse traps and de-con.  Almost every morning we look under the kitchen sink to find a mouse caught in the trap.  Also we found a mouse in the middle of the kitchen floor, all dopey from de-con, and had to throw him out to die.  Then whilst peeking into the kennel that Wayne and Junior haven't been in since Duke died, I found two bloated mice in the bucket of water, floating.

The past two years (especially this year) we have had a skunk problem.  He (or she) would swing by every other night and skunk the place up.  Well, it got really bad, so we started setting out live traps.  We caught a skunk nearly a week ago, and Dock shot him.  

The garden has not really been doing great.  It took a long time for the tomato plants to get big and we have just started getting some ripe produce from them.  They have lots of tomatoes, just not ripe ones.

We planted green beans three times and only a few sprouted.  We figured it was the seed we were using, and sure enough after we bought new seed and planted it, it sprouted.  This wasn't long ago, and the beans are still little guys.  We're hoping to get a crop from them mid-September.