The four-legged kind!
The cute as a button, jump like popcorn kernels, lanky, leggy kind.
Check out the video of their first time seeing grass. As my Amish friends say, "Joomba!" It means "jump."
And do you know what that means? It means that we have to redo the inside of our barn. Oh joy.
These next few weeks will be filled with pounding posts, building stalls, putting up tin, and generally making our barn more of a safe haven for our little animals from the big, bad, wiley coyotes that live very close by.
While we're at it, we're building a bigger and better chicken run for our hens, too. For as much as I love having them forage through the property for their daily intake of bugs, worms, grubs, and so much more, I don't love them digging up the garden once it's planted or laying their eggs under the raspberry bushes. So, we have to corral them for a few months while we grow and harvest the food I'll can and preserve for our family. They'll be let back out to roam once the last of the potatoes have been dug early this fall.
I was talking with someone a few weeks ago and they had mentioned how as their kids had gotten older (mid-teen years) their farm had gotten smaller. I thought: how nice. The older our kids get, the bigger our farmingness (<--is that a word? It is now) gets. The older they get, the more things they get interested in. Rare breed pigeons. Meat goats. Milk goats. Turkeys. Chickens. One current steer with another one coming to our farm soon. A rescue horse. Two dogs. Two children. One cat. All kinds of love I tell ya. All kinds.
Life.is.so.good.
