Reed Ranch- Cute & Tasty

While in CO Asa was talking to Addisson on the phone. She asked how Sparkles was doing. He said "let me talk to your mother". I got on the phone and he had told me how he was woken up at 2 am by a very loud cat scream/yelp. And he hadnt seen Sparkles for a few days. We warned Addisson that Sparkles was MIA and probaly wouldnt be back. She was ok with it. We were too. Sparkles is a nice cat but she is kind of a pain. Once it had been a week or so when we got home that Sparkles was MIA. The evening of arrival I saw her (Sparkles) climbing on the screen outside. I opened the door and she came zooming into the house. Sparkles was back. Addisson was glad when she woke up the next morining.

Also while we were gone Asa had many issues with the goats getting out. We had trouble with the electric fence due to the huge snow drifts. The goats finally figured out they could get out. He came home from work one morning and every goat had escaped. He did round them up to find they were out again an hour later. He wasnt very happy.

Asa also purchase a piglet and was bottle feeding five baby goat kids while we were gone. He had to wake up at 4 am to get them fed and would have to feed them when he got home from work also. When we got home Asa was showing us how he feeds the babies. He had a good system. He put 5 bottles in a bucket with a hose in each bottle and mounted the nipple in the side of the bucket. Most people poor the milk straight into the bucket and the hoses suck from the bottom of the bucket. His way he is able to make sure each goat gets equal amount of milk. My point to this is I turned my back for a second and when I look back Quinlyn was hunckered down, her lips attached to the nipple and was sucking milk (raw unfiltered, unpasteurized cows milk) through the hose/nipple. YUCK. She wouldnt leave it alone. She loved it. It was so gross. Since the nipples are for the goats we really dont clean them very well. Most of the time we just rinse them right away with hot water. We were all amazed and dumb founded. But Quinlyn sure liked it.

We celebrated Quinlyn's birthday this week. Asa and his parents went to Canada. Across the river to the Dairy Queen to get her a cake for her birthday. We put balloons all over her bed and the house for when she woke up. She really liked it. She would say Happy Me.

Tonight we decorated for Easter. We colored eggs this afternoon and hid plastic eggs for the girls to find in the morning. Along with their Easter Baskets filled with little presents. They should have a good time.

HAPPY EASTER to ALL