It's been two weeks since Cocoa gave birth to twin girls. One was "dropped" out in the field. Her name is Rhianna, and no, she's not named after some singer. She's got a beautiful Celtic name. The second baby was born in the barn, and her name is Frosting. She has a silver ring around her black nose and she look's like she dipped her nose into a can of frosting. Hence, her name.
These two kids are gymnasts. They run, jump, twist, and spring everywhere. They have two speeds...fast and stop!
Danielle spent quite some time putting small hole chicken wire completely around the entire back enclosure so that Cocoa could stay out with her babies and we wouldn't have to worry about them walking through the fence. So now the back pasture is the official "nursery"!
Prissy is not eating her sweet feed very well. She does better when it is mixed with some of the grain we give the sheep.
Danielle is busy making lots of soap. We got a much larger stainless steel bowl for making soap, and she made ten pounds in one go today. This soap is a vanilla oatmeal bar. We're having fun experimenting. Samples of some of the earlier batches have gone out and we hope to sell them soon. They're cured and ready.
Danielle will be doing the fall Fairy festival in Spotsville with Lisa, so we're busy creating stock for the show. Lots of soap sacks, to go with the soap, which will be ready by October.
We've had internet issues for almost a week now. So these blog posts haven't been as timely as we would have liked. Hope the internet will stay up and running so you can hear more soon.
The Maryland Renaissance Festival started this weekend. We are working on an idea to bring the goats to the Faire and do an educational piece about milk production in the 1500's. Also, maybe we'll bring lambs, and talk about wool, spinning, weaving, etc, as it pertained to that time period, also. It's an idea.
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