Today we went to the lake to do some swimming and eat a picnic lunch. If we were close enough to family, we would go visit grandparents and put flowers on grave stones but the nearest cemetery with kin is 17 hours away. So we did our own flag ceremony and then kept with tradition and had a picnic. The picnic grounds were a little flooded, but the girls swam out to the table anyway before deciding we better eat our sandwiches on the grass.
When we arrived home we found two surprises waiting for us in the goat pen! Gabby, our black and white goat, had twin doelings! Although I missed the birth, the babies were still wet and new. Gabby didn't quite know what to do with them yet, so we helped her clean them off a bit and moved them to the kidding stall so they could bond better.
I thought they needed some nice Memorial Day names, but my oldest daughter wanted the tricolored doeling to be named "China". At least I got to name the black one "Poppy."
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| The nights are still a bit chilly for these babies at 58 degrees so I put them in their sweaters. Awwww |
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