Ahhhhhh, the joys of the farm. It is a ton of work, but, it beats sitting in an office, flying around on a plane, staying in hotels and just being home long enough to do your laundry, any day.
We now have a barn. It's for storage and fixing stuff and we intend to put a small lab in there for all the goat things. It really helps a lot to have our tools and other necessary things stay out there rather than have to cart it back and forth every day. I always
wanted a red old fashioned wood barn but cost is a factor here so this was the next bes
t thing. Next, we've been building a pen behind the old barn and repairing, as best we can, that old barn. We would like it to last another few years if possible. We hope to paint it to match the new barn. We sunk something like 16 poles to do build that pen. This little project took over a week to do. We hurt all over but we are proud, proud. We are getting better at this. We have now learned that you need to cement the big poles in or they have a tendency to lift. When that happens goats escape. Several days in a row when we got to the farm the girls were out in the back pasture beyond the fence. This is when we learned that one must inspect the perimeter fence frequently. We had major security breeches so we spent several days repairing the fence. It really does have a life of it's own. 
The Bear is now 10 weeks old. He has grown so fast. He is well over 20 pounds. He knows his name and will look at you when you call him but that's as far as it goes. Brat Boy is one of his nick names now along with Jaws.
And all he wants to do is be outside. We take him to the farm everyday and in the beginning we would put him in a kennel close to where we were working. This worked really well for awhile. Meantime I would let Max and Molly sniff him everyday and they would sit with him sometimes during the day. Well the Bear has now graduated to being a farm dog. Max and Molly seem to know he's theirs and he gets to be outside running around all day. He may end up being an outside dog after all, he never wants to come in.
Life on the farm can be tiring even for the Bear. All that running around, playing with Max and Molly and chasing goats. Although the goats really don't like to be chased and he has been butted a few times now. I think he's starting to get the picture. Anyway sometimes one must just take a nap. It's hard work being a farm dog after all.
Just look how big he is, 10 weeks old. I will leave you now with just a few more pictures of the Bear because he is just so darn cute. By the way, in the middle of all this we thought it might be nice to build a house. So, the footing is suppose to go in this week. We are building a cement house, not block but poured cement, and we plan to do a lot of it ourselves. It will prove to be interesting I'm sure. 
Also, along the way I have found an herb site that has a lot of things for goats. I've always been a sucker for this kind of stuff so, I'm now doing herbal wormers for the goats and dogs and I'm making my own dog food. I don't know how long I'll be able to keep it up, I guess it depends on if the dogs health seems to improve. So till next time.......... And you guys could send me a note once in awhile......Would be nice
