Farm Life, partly cloudy, humid..70's

What happens when you're a goat and
you want your sisters nap spot?
You use your capricious nature of Course!


Hey Cinnamon, can I have your spot?

Please??

C'mon, I really want to lay right THERE

Brothers!

Sunday Snippets & Snatches...cloudy...70's

Kind of like a weather calendar or farm journal we find that we can browse back through this blog and find that "Blackberry winter" always falls around the same date every year, the baby goat naming contest shows up about the same time every year.....and apparently so does the rain.........after a particularly soggy couple of weeks here, I checked archives and sure enough look what I posted last May about this time:

"When it rains it pours", "A pour man gets his ice in the wintertime", A "dirt poor farmer" is someone who is 'land rich' but money poor, .......and I'm coining a new one
a  "rain poor farmer" gets a half a years worth of rain in two weeks~~ right when they need to be planting the garden, making hay, mowing the (knee high) grass, harvesting the strawberries.............................................

The Rain Poor Farmer So as we deal with the almost constant and 'Quantitive' amounts of rain
and workin'  amidst the rain and showers,
we find every chore takes twice the time--hours and hours!
The strawberries won't ripen,
More and More we find ourselves gripen'
Can't find a dry day
to cut the hay,
Plants need pottin,'
and the half the garden is rottin,'
While we're out in the muck sloggin'~~~
we might just have to take a break from bloggin' !!!!

Fresh Fruit Cake....Cloudy, with showers possible......

Fresh Fruit Cake, not to be mistaken for a ‘fruitcake’,  is quick & easy to make,  Light & healthier than most cakes and tastes great simply topped with whatever fresh fruit is in season.

 We've been eating strawberries for a couple of weeks here now, blueberries and cherries will be ready soon followed shortly after by blackberries and peaches..........use your favorite to top this cake!

 

2 eggs

1 cup sugar

1 tsp. Almond flavoring (you can use different flavoring depending on what fruit you use)

1 cup all purpose flour

1 tsp. baking powder

1/2 cup milk

1 Tablespoon butter

 

 

In small sauce pan combine milk and butter, scald (heat till small bubbles appear around edges) while you make the rest of the cake.

In mixing bowl beat eggs well, add sugar and flavoring and continue beating till until very light and thick, 2-3 minutes ,( a large wire whisk works best for this).

Add flour and baking powder all at once and stir together, add hot milk and quickly beat together, pour into greased 8 x 8 inch pan and bake in a pre-heated 350* oven for 24-30 minutes till tests clean when a knife is inserted near center.

Cool on and top with crushed fresh fruit.

Strawberries, Blueberries, Blackberries, Peaches...................................................

 

NEW Babies.... Partly cloudy...warm

It's been a busy week here ~four babies in three days! And I didn't get my daytime wish! I got to bed around 2 A.M. So these pics are at seven hours old! 
Meet the newest additions to the farm A. Wyse Ol' goats' twins~ One boy~ One Girl~ Stop by our FB page and help us NAME them!
www.facebook.com/jonquiljunction

Here they are about seven hours old with mom

After their photo shoot, they wanted a nap.
Being born is exhausting!

Rhapsody & Rhythm ...partly sunny humid

Exercise time TWO days old

Watching mom eat hay

Copying mom, two days old