Today was extremely uneventful, for which I am grateful. It's nice to have a bit of quiet once in a while. The puppies have been doing their usual crazy stunts, but aside from that, it's been mercifully serene. I did find something exciting in the woods today!
The trilliums are blooming! They always feel like magic. They show up for a few weeks a year. They start out white and turn a lovely pink/purple before they fade for the rest of the year.
The bleeding hearts are coming up too but they haven't bloomed yet. I'll get some pictures when they do.
In lieu of anything super exciting, I thought I would share some pictures from years ago, back when we were allowed to leave the house.
This is the beach at Manzanita, Oregon. Lovely, not so touristy spot.
This is at Waldo Lake, also in Oregon, but high up in the mountains. The whole family goes up there every summer if the mosquitoes aren't too bad. I haven't been up there in years, though. With dairy goats, there's very rarely a break. I do have a wonderful farm sitter, but she's got her own life now that she's grown up, and it's harder to make the schedules work. It's a good thing I love being at home so much!
One of the best things on Steemit has been the chance to see other people's experiences from all over the world, whether they're travelling or living in the farflung reaches of the globe. I haven't traveled much, although I always wanted to, so getting to experience it vicariously through others has been wonderful.
Here's the required baby animal photo of the day: Sweet Pea and her brother Samson when they still lived in the house.
Be well, everyone! Keep travelling and posting pictures!
Sweet photo of the baby goats by the wood stove. Beautiful lake. It’s a pity you can’t get there more often.
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It's an amazing place. The water is so clean that nothing lives in it. You can go out pretty far in a boat and see all the way to the bottom. It's spectacular. I would have posted pictures of the water but the day we went out in the boat the wind was up and the visibility was down.
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I so miss the trilliums! I grew up with them, of course. My mother said that you must not pick them or they wouldn't come back for 7 years - funny how everything is always in 7s like that.
The goats are so cute too. Gotta love Nubians!
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I've always heard that too. I didn't put it in the post because I wasn't sure if it's really true! Good to have additional confirmation.
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I don't know if it's true or not, really. It falls into the same genre as the idea that the red elderberries are poisonous (I've heard otherwise, though hadn't lived near them since I read it.) But that's a topic for another time.
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Perhaps I should look it up!
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I did a little reading and it appears to be true. In some cases picking the flowers kills the plant for good.
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Wow! That's amazing! Thank you for that!
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Thanks for sharing the pics! I love the picture of the goats and I'm jealous that trillium is already blooming there--still got a few weeks I think until it shows up here...
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Baby goats look so tiny :-)
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Hello ..!! :D
@goat-girlz
Beautiful photos..!!
I can see why it would be hard for to get away... but totally awesome you love being home...!!!!!!!
I love just being at my cabin..
(:
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Thank you! I do love being home, and the animals are a great excuse when we get invited to something we don't really want to go to! Somebody has to milk the goats!
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I miss my girls and stinky guys! I started a dairy herd up on Whidbey island and took the whole crowd to my family farm in East TX. That farm had been abandoned for ever 30 years and the crew sure made cleaning it up a lot easier (not the girls I was milking!)
Life changed a bit and we now live on a sail boat. I do remember well those sweet wee hours feeding the babies.
I look forward to your stories!
Blessings
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Wow! That is quite a change! Yes, goats make short work of overgrown property. All my boys get wethered and go into the brush herd that I rent out. I don't like to put the milkers on the big blackberry piles because they scratch their udders. Thanks for stopping by!
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haha! Sweet Pea and Samson, how adorable. The photos are all great and I'm glad the day was peaceful!
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