Wednesday, June 3, 2009

The Goat House




Many thanks to my sister and brother-in-law, and to J, for turning the old coop de chicken into this beautiful new goat house. Everything used was recycled from the old coop and from other materials lying around the place. Staggering ingenuity went into building it, and the whole project only took about an hour! The eyesore full of junk has become a sweet little shed, where the goats will look out at us and say "feeeeeeeeeed meeeeeeee!" We'll probably put up a fence for an outside yard too, with a wee mountain for them to climb on.
Now, what kind of goats? Pygmies? Milkers? Cashmere? Time for some research...

The weather has been warm and sunny and summery this week. The mosquitos are biting, the crickets are chirping and the butterflies are flying around. I've seen two garter snakes in the garden. A couple of deer have been visiting at night, eating clover and birdseed. One nest box is occupied by western bluebirds, down by the garden.

The chives are blooming, and the blue flax, which only opens in the morning.

It's about 70 degrees, sunny and breezy at 10:30 am.

5 comments:

Architect said...

That Goat pen looks like it was built by a professional! The exquisite windows and size are really superb.

slammy4 said...

YAY!

Milla said...

You will have goats!!! That's wonderful!
I love goats :)
They are intelligent, playful, cheeky, they hardly smell (unlike sheep), their milk is great for everything, and fresh goat cheese, just made and without any salt, is the best cheese in the world.

And that goat house... It could be on 'Vogue Casa'!

dad said...

An hour my butt.

Uncle said...

Dad, Maybe we should start keeping closer track of our time. They seem to be rounding down when we're taking care of honeydews. This has happened to me too on the ranch.