The Thing About Resolutions

Is that they are so quickly abandoned.

I know that I had resolved to maintain this blog on a more regular basis as soon as the business of the start of the year was through.  Maybe I haven't actually abandoned the resolution and it is more a matter of the business has never subsided.  And it was not entirely my fault this time - I mean, we ARE in the middle of a pandemic-induced crisis.

IT IS ALL HIS FAULT

But I can't blame COVID-19 for my absence.  We have actually had MORE time since all of the quarantining has started.  More time to relax and reflect.  JUST KIDDING!  More time for projects and back-breaking labor. 

By way of update, here is a run-down of a few of the changes that have happened since last I logged into the blog editor:

• We now have a total of five does, one wether, and one buck in the pygmy goat herd.
• Psyche and Cupid gave us their very first beautiful buckling this spring. We named him Puddles.  He is now at his new home further up in NE Oklahoma.
• We hatched hundreds of chicks, sold some, kept some, and cleaned out the brooders for a break.
• We hatched a lot of goslings, sold some, bought some more, ordered a few extra, and sold some adult geese as well.  Geese.  Geese always happen.
• We finished a secondary goat habitat (habitat because pen doesn't do it justice) for our female goats - within viewing distance of the bachelor habitat - but still safe from unwanted advances until such time as said advances become wanted.
• We added a flock of Black Indian Runner ducks to the mix and they are hilarious.
• We agonized over the decision and ultimately sold all of our peacocks when we realized that Mr. Peacock's raging three and a half year old hormones were going to be a problem for everyone on the farm.
• We finally had the donkey barn built and finished off the surrounding donkey habitat for better donkey management.

There's a lot more, I'm sure.  It has been a very long three months.  A very long, but totally enjoyable three months if not for the rain.  

And now that I have finished with a necessary 'catch-up' post that will help put my head back in order... I'm off to figure out what I had been planning to write about before the world caught on fire.