Today Has Turned Out To Be A Glorious Day

Despite a rough start (courtesy of Lowe's) the day ended up coming together pretty nicely. The Lowe's shenaningans began yesterday, when we placed an order for another animal pen. They had 1 in stock, for "same day" pick up. Yeah, ok, so their definition of "same day" is different to mine. We waited for the email/text to say "come and get it" ... and neither came. So I called, it had been about 5 hours, and 7.30pm so our plans to head to Belton and get it up weren't going to happen. The lady said it was there ready to pick up, so Mark headed to the store ... only to be told that he couldn't have it as there was no manager on the floor, and a manager had to let him have it! Yeah, that was weird. So, Mark came home, and when we went to bed, and the store closed, still no communication from them.

I woke up this morning, and gave them a call when the store opened. The manager was frazzled, and said she was understaffed, but she'd check into ot and call me back. An hour later, I called again as I'd received no callback. They could not find the item, the best they could figure was that our order came in as the only one in the store was sold to someone else, and that the inventory wasn't updated. She did say, she'd transferred our order to the Woodruff rd store and for me to call them. 

The lady there was frazzled and did her best ... but lo and behold! Their "one in stock" was gone too! Lowe's really needs to work on their inventory update system.

So, Mark cancelled the order and we went to Tractor Supply ... the pen was paid for, and loaded in about 10 minutes! Thank you, TSC.

We headed over to the property, and Mark set about putting it up in what will be the goat field. We let our 2 chickens out to free range while we were there.

I drove down to the bees to grab the hose, and drove back up to the front porch with it so that I could water all the plants up there. I may look a bit silly, driving a Kia Soul, with the driver's side door open, dragging a hose but hey, where there's a will, there's a way, and I have my stuff to do around the eventual-farm/homestead just like hubby does.

My grandson stopped by with Miss Lily, and he chatted with Mark, and helped him a bit. Miss Lily came in my car with me and we went to look for the geese, and drove up into the fenced in goat-field-to-be to give grandad a drink. Later she picked peas off the vine but was a little bit grossed out by me eating them, pods and all.

She got to see the stray mama, who wandered by looking for her food, but was too timid to venture closer with extra people there as well as us. Methinks we have a long road ahead of us with her but hopefully, over time, she will trust us enough to do what she needs to whether we are close by, or not.

This evening has been peaceful, we were outside and had Sunshine and Solomon out browsing, they are so sweet. They munched up and down the row of bushes and trees near our other front gate, while hubby was working on his pallets.

Sunshine is still tiny, but when she gets to eating, she packs it in and gets ROUNDER.

Solomon likes to show off "look mama, I can stand up on 2 legs!" 

This one caught them perfectly in the dusky sunlight, as they circled the tree trunk, chewing on leave from the underlying bushes.

Solomon is quite a handsome lad! He comes and stands in front of me sometimes for me to play with his ears. I LOVE Nubian's ears!

She may be tiny but she is a bundle of mischief. I love the way she gets silly and skips and dances, then just stops. She is a little character, that's for sure! She loves when I take her face in my hands and tell her how pretty she is.

I had said we wouldn't get back into goats, 10 years ago, after we lost the last of our original 4, Sadie, yet here we are, starting off another herd. 

Sunshine will just be a companion for the Nubians girls I'm going to get, as I've decided to only breed Nubians again. I am addicted to them, their noses and their ears just have me hooked! 

Solomon, like Rammy, who was my first goat when we had the L'il Foxes herd, calls differently for me and Mark. For Mark it's a long "Daaaa" and for me, a distinct "maamaa". When Rammy used to do it, nobody believed it when I told them, until they came over and heard him. He was my beautiful baby. I had to bottle feed him for a few weeks as he'd been a preemie ... but he grew! He had a personality like you would not believe. Look at that face, he was such a mama's boy.

A beautiful end to our day. Sunshine and Solomon are back in their pen ready for overnight, with their hay and a nice bowl of goat feed and sunflower seeds.