Colorado Continued.

Here are a few pics of where we stayed in the Bayfield area (between Durango and Pagosa). We transported two Chihuahua pups to a dear friend up there and were asked to transport some goats home for someone here.

Here is the cabin we stayed in (the one in back) for one night before we left for Pagosa after our friend's hubby's birthday party!

Mist rolling off the mountain first thing in the morning. This is looking off the big cabin in the background of the previous pic. I just love it up there so much.

When I die I hope they burn me and toss my ashes in Colorado! Gorgeous country!!!

Road Trip!

Well, we all decided that we needed a real vacation so we loaded up our truck and headed north. Grandma and Grandpa booked two condos up in Pagosa Springs and the whole family: Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Bill, Auntie Megan, their kids and all of us.

I get up to Colorado and start taking pictures. IT is beautiful up there. We had rain nearly every day and we saw some of the most beautiful scenery.

I did NOT take near enough pictures while I was there but we sure had a good time.

We fished, walked, shopped, rode bikes, slept, watched TV, played games, played the Wii,

played putt putt, swam, beaded, drove around, and had a great time. This was a much needed time away from the reality of life right now. Like Alyssa said " I'd almost forgotten about it (the medical stuff)"

2 More goats leave CBF

It is always bittersweet when goats leave the farm. I am always ecstatic when i know they go to good homes (these two definitely did!) but I still miss them not being out there. It seems a little strange today without Narnia's low throaty maaa and little Daredevil's beautiful face out there.
Yet, I am so glad they are going to fulfill new destinies - Narnia is going to restart SbarH's Alpine herd (where she came from) and Daredevil is going to bring in a new generation of beautiful little Nigies at Camino Allegre. I'm happy they are where they are - like Dixie, Snowcap, Pepper and Ammi, Willow, Entei, Chickority, Shalom, Shihara, Laikla, Zelda and many others. They all still have a place in my heart and frankly - I am so happy to know that those precious little goaties are going to be in a place where they can help others. I am always thrilled to see what they are doing in their new homes along with that twinge of "I miss them". *sniff*.
Thank you Sanchez' and Sedillos for these animals having good homes where they will be loved and well cared for - makes breeding a little easier when you know a goat gets a great home.
Deanna

More of Storm's Kids that were born.

3 More does and a buckling were born to Camino Allegre's Wendy and Tinker Bell. Here are some pics of the new additions to Camino Allegre. The babies are all out of Piddlin Acres H Calm the Storm. 2 of them are blue eyed and two of them are brown eyed.


To date Storm has managed to throw a grand total of 15 does and 4 bucks.

about 40 % are blue eyed. Seems like they all have improved conformation over their dams which is great. Lots of straight legs, backs and wider escutcheons abound. WE sure are happy with the kid crop Storm has produced this year. He isn't done yet.

We know of about 2 or 3 more does due to him and several more will go into the breeding pen this year. We are going to try a line breeding on the Peaceful Voyage lines of Storm and Tirzah and Storm and Joie. Here's hoping for some MORE beautiful, milky babies.

Twinkle is Officially For Sale

I am officially putting my little doe CBF Ent's Twinkle Lil Star for sale. This is another one of those hard decisions to make but I need to make it. Mostly for my own sanity and it is one of those sales that makes sense. I have mom, 1/2 sister and daughter.
She is a fairly correct little doe who is not a bad FF milker (on 1 day test she did 1.2lbs of milk
which I know doesn't sound like much but considering she's only 43 days fresh and 15 mo in comparison to some of the other does who were on test.) Her dam milked 3.8lbs of milk at 47 days fresh as a 3 year old. Joie has now unofficially earned her milk star in ADGA(AGS is official) Twinkle's udder looks better than her mom's in attachment and is just as easy to milk, her teats are bigger and she is very friendly.
I am asking $300 for her. Her 2 month old daughter is available as well and I am asking the same price for her. She is solid Chocolate with a white slash on her side and a few white spots on her belly. I can do a package deal for the two of them if someone wants.

Despite the Rough spots, Blessings Abound.

Yesterday was an incredible day - despite some of the roughness of the last two weeks, God continues to show our family what a loving, caring and providing Father He is. There is a charitable organization called the Janet Vargas Memorial Fund which pays for the some fun events for the kids at UNM Childrens Cancer Center. Yesterday was the Cliff's Amusement Park Day so we went and had an absolutely fun time. It was a day to go be a kid and have fun - leaving all the seriousness of this disease behind! I could have cried just seeing the kids have so much fun all day. Aside from getting to ride rides for free from 12-7pm they also provided lunch of Pizza, Subs, chips, sodas, and goodies. It brought a huge smile to my face and tears to my eyes seeing these kids who I am used to seeing so sick while they are getting treatments etc. just smile and have so much fun. I would LOVE to have had pictures but I forgot my batteries for the camars (DUH!!!) If you would like to have more information about this group - see their website: www.jvmf.org .
Along with this fun day we got a call from my mom that someone had donated a large sum of money to our family for medical expenses. Again bringing tears and smiles!!!!
I have a few prayer requests for everyone.
1) Someone we know is having some issues in their life. Please pray that God would just use this difficulty to bring them all closer to the Lord. I can't be specific but I know they could use a lot of prayer right now to carry them thru.
2.) A family who I don't know but family members do know have a Grandbaby who is very young (under 1 year) who is going thru a lot of MAJOR medical issues. He has almost constant seizures and has to have a feeding tube among other medical things. This is a heartbreaking situation for the family and they have been in and out of hospitals since he was born. Please pray too for this family to be upheld during this and that God's miraculous hand of healing would be on this little one.

Last Set of Spring Babies

So, it was late December and I was feeling a bit lazy and didn't want to run my Oberhasli out to the Oberhasli buck. So I decided that I wouldn't mind doing mini's again. Thinking that if I bred my Chocolate Chamoise buck to my black Oberhasli doe I'd get Chocolate Chamoisee kids. WRONG!!!!! As you can see by this picture of baby #2

And Baby #1 We did not get Chamoisee's at all!!!!! We got buckskins. This doe is a Chocolate buckskin

with no white (that's actually light tan on her)

Not even 12 hours old and she's already jumping!

And a black and tan buckskin with a white poll. HMMMM - where did that come from?

At least we got twin doelings!!!!! Both these little Mini Milkers are for sale. $75 each or both for $100. They will make terrific backyard milkers for someone!!!! And I don't have any more boys to sell.