Jumping back in

Well, I'm home. Back on Critter Farm at last. Actually, I've been home for almost a week now. Everything is great here, but I've had a difficult time returning to my blog page. So much has happened between my last blog post (in Germany) and now, I'm finding it quite difficult to just start writing about my simple farm stuff again. I feel like I've lived a lifetime since my last post and have so much to tell, yet telling all that past stuff doesn't seem at all pertinent anymore. Yet I have all these great pictures, I tell myself. But who cares, I respond. Back and forth it goes. I'm a great arguer and I could continue this particular argument for a good deal longer, but instead, I think I'll just share some pictures of how I've spent the last couple days and jump back into blogging this way.

...It all started with breakfast for the goats. (It *always* starts with breakfast with for goats):

In my absence, Reggie has become a hat stealer:

He thinks he's pretty clever, too:

The goat boys have become quite the guard goats. Somebody they don't know has just walked around the side of our house:

Back inside, I packaged up some eggs to sell. My nine sweet hens continue to lay, on average, about six eggs a day:

I made a batch of tea in my new sun tea container:

Here's how my ferocious watch dog handled the unknown visitor the goats noticed (that adoring look stopped the guy cold, too):

Although I have about eighty more important things to take care of, I suddenly decided to give my deck furniture a good scrubbing:

Like almost everything else I do around here, this took way longer than I expected:

But I'm pleased with the outcome:

I felt sad when this giant log truck drove past my driveway. The land below us has been divided and is being prepared for two new houses:

This is how Roxy spent part of the afternoon staying cool. It reached 95 degrees yesterday:

I throw the balls in and she tries to get them. It's kind of like bobbing for apples:

The chickens took a nice cool dust bath. A month or so ago, I dug up a small area for them next to their coop. They love it and it helps keep them out of the areas we don't want them digging huge holes in:

There's nothing like a good shake off after a dust bath:

So, that's it. Hopefully, this broke the blogging ice for me and things will feel a bit easier now. Other than the above, there's only one more thing to share....
Reggie says hi: