Today is sunnier not only outside but in my heart.  Thank you all for your kind words.  We have come up with a new idea.  They each have timers and every hour they are to ask themselves if they have made good choices this hour?  If not then they are to tell God they are sorry for.... and ask God to forgive them and help them the next hour.  If they have then they are to Thank God.  I'm not sure how well this will work.  We came up with it yesterday.  They all say they want a better different life.  They just don't know how to change.  They don't understand God and are unsure how to talk to Him.  I am hoping this will help.  It honesty it wouldn't do any of us any harm to do this exercise for a few days... oh every day!  

On the critter front I think I am finished kidding goats out for my son!   YEA!!!  Now it  is just a matter of checking for heads stuck in the fence, and other strange happenings.  I have to check the feeders and make sure there is feed.  Not near as exhausting as kidding.  One of the strange happenings the other day is I had a kid with it's head stuck between two trees. they grew close together, but wider higher.  Some how he had managed to probably rare up on his front legs and come down with his head between the trees.  He would have died if I hadn't found him.  In the past we have lost a few that did that and choked to death as they hung themselves in forks of trees.  I have one billy kid that I am threatening to have a BBQ goat party with.  Almost every day he has his head stuck in the fence.  His horns are just long enough to go through but not pull back, without help.  His head is so thick it really isn't his horns that cause the problem.  IF his horns were longer I would "fix" him.  I would take a stick and ductape.  Taping the stick between the horns and sticking out on both sides wider than a square of net wire.  By the time the duc tape rots off the horns have grown and/or they have given up trying to stick their head through. 

I finished kidding for my son just in time to start lambing season for me!   I don't have near as many to watch.  I do have 5 lambs and one bottle baby already.  My lambs are SOOOO cute, as they are black and white spotted for the most part.   I think the bottle baby is a ewe lamb.  Kids are excited about that :)  

Anyone need milk?  I am doing the back stroke in milk.   I need to learn to make cheese.  I need a cheese press.  I guess I am going to have to bite the bullet and buy one.   Right now I don't know how I will put morning milk in the frig.  When dh gets this new walk in freezer/frig build it will help in I can have more storage room and a place to age cheese. 

My big milk cow is so funny.  Almost every other night she holds her milk up.  I can feel it. I just laugh and tell her she will not be happy the next morning.  Then take her calf.   Next morning, drip drip drip.......squirt!!!!!!!!!   She can't even hold it up until I get the milker on!   This morning I milked almost 5 gallons out of her.  My milker is a 5 gallon milker and it was up the the neck of the milker.   I fed babies 3 gallons then milked the other cow.  Gave babies another gallon or so and put 4 gallons in the frig.  

Mocha is really  becoming a pet.  She has yet to kick me or even try.  I have tried to make her kick!  Yet she doesn't, she just does a dance when I bother her.   I have started clipping her to the fence when I do my chores.  She fights the snap a bit but not bad.  I give her a bottle then.  After I finish with the second cow I use her to "strip" her.  This is getting the last little bit that the milker doesn't always clean out.  It helps them produce more milk.   She isn't picky about what mama looks like.  She is learning to lead  knowing that she is going to get to nurse IF she leads.  

I guess that's the news from my area!   All have a blessed day!!!