Last Day of the year no job, no prospects but life goes on

Ok Idid a very poor job keeping up with my blog and everything else, facebook,pinterst,friends,website etc but hopefully 2013 will be a new year,I am going to learn how to manage all these better someway, somehow and get myself motivated. That is the biggest problem for me right now, besies th money thing. And if I managed thse and sold thru pinterest, blog, website, etsy I could make money. It is learning how to navigate all these things. I am reading THE HAPPINESS PROJECT it took me awhile to really look at it but I like some of the ideas. What kills me about these books that about everyone I have read the people are pretty well off. Aren't there middle class people out there having these same issues and I guess like me wait for someone to write about it, instead of being the one to write it themselves.
Oh well here gors in for a penny in for a pound!

Crocheting my second ripple afghan

For my 82 year old neighbor, the ripple afghan seems to take forever but if I do at least 2 rows a day I could finish in less than 2 months.

Another batch of goat cheese driaing and motivation andi finally launched my farms website

My farms website is www.lavenderhollowfarmandcreamery.com has some old pictures that I really like and new ones of some does and kids. Still have a lot to do, like post what I have for sale and Make sure keywords are tagged and adcheesesk to my etsy site. Have another batch of goat cheese draining and will milk again tomorrow morning or a second batch,really need to start selling it. Ism finding it hard to get motivated to do much thn my goats, a little crocheting

And I have so much I won't to do. Work on a new quilt, Irish and post and make more fabric dolls, make more fabric horses, make a few wooden barns to sell with my wooden horses and allido is think about it.

Eggs again

I am so thankful my game hens are laying again and some where that I can find them. I get 2-3 a day.

more kids born today

Ok not the greatest newborn pictures but the top two are from today and the one on the bottom are 2 days old. 4 bucks and 2 does.

Amish Friendship Bread, new baby goats and soon the start of cheesemaking season

Made the Amish Freindship bread and iot tastes wonderful, had to research on whether one could mess up the starter since I forgot to add on Day 6 but according to one website you couldn't really mess it up by missing adding the ingredients so I went ahead and made it and it turned out great. I now have 2 starters to give away since I will keep one.
I now have # baby goats with twins being born yesterday to Bella, a buck and a doe, she is a first time yearling freshner and is one of those goats that did not have a clue of what to do with these babies and so far doesn't have that protective loving attitude, on a good note she lets me milk her (and she was sort of wild) and tonight I could see now that the kids are 24 hours old they are able to grab her teats better, problem is her udder is small andthe teats are like nigerians very small but the milk comes out fast, i will probably have to supplement her milk if I want the babies to grow.
I thought by now Mariah would have kidded, still has tendons she is one of my older does with good milk production and easy to milk and gives enough that i can generally get some for cheesemaking two weeks after she kids. The rest of the older does aren't due til mid to late March.

Fabric dolls and goats and more........

these are 3 of the fabric dolls I am working on, I like making them and finding good dress and pinafore color combinations, I am not very good with color what i think looks good when made doesn't always look good. I will try to post pictures of my first baby goat of 2012 need to take some pictures with my camera keep forgetting to bring it to the barn.

can't believe it has been 10 months holy cow

so much has happened, amy my daughter had her baby July 3rd 2011, named Wyatt he was born with some heart defects, in Nov he had open heart surgery and is doing well. Happy baby and growing up fast. he is now in a walker and trying to sit up by himself. finished up cheesemaking in sept and hopefully all the does are bred and will start kidding in a few weeks. Been doing some knitting slowed up on the socks went gang busters on the first and almoast done the second a year later, but started a ripple crochet afghan very fustrating to start but attic 24 typepad blog starightened me out very well, a fantastic site.