Bulging at the Seams :)

The Month of March has proven to be a month for expanding.

On the 4th, we added a new little girl to the household, and she is proving to be quite the joy. We are hoping she will be a permanent placement/forever ours, but things are still up in the air a bit. Please keep your fingers crossed and until that happens I can't post any pictures on the internet, so you will just have to come see her in person :) Hanna and Lexi spend a lot of time giving her hugs and kisses, and Hanna is turning into a big helper. Lexi, although doing very well overall, is feeling the slight of not being the youngest anymore. We are doing all kinds of things to help Lexi with that, but the fact is, she isn't the baby anymore.

Then on the 5th, we added two more kids to the farm (baby goats). Peaches had her babies late Friday evening, as all of us eagerly watched. Poor thing had a regular gallery of onlookers. The other three does waited until Monday and came one right after the other. Stawberry, the youngest of the does, had triplets. Hazel had twins and Ruby had twins. There are now 9 little kids (5 bucks and 4 does) running, climbing and terrorizing the barn. They really are a hoot to watch and play with. Hanna has turned into be quite the shepherdess. I always wanted to be a vet or something dealing with animals - maybe I can live vicariously through Hanna :)

And then came the rain and the mud! And then more rain and more mud and so on and so on.

We just thought it had dried out this past week - only one vehicle stuck in the driveway - and then it snowed Saturday. So now we are going to be walking up and down the lane again. I have really gotten a jump start on my walking this season - since our lane is about 1.5 miles round trip. And I have been making the trip at least 2 to 3 times a day, and sometimes at a jog if I am running late. I have started a joke about surviving the lane. If you make it down and back out without getting stuck, you can say you survived the Trochesset Lane - quite a feat these days. I made a picture to hallmark the occasion and even toyed with the idea of selling T-shirts to build up the rock fund.

What is the old saying, in like a lion and out like a lamb. . . I am not sure what happened first around here, but I can only hope things settle down and some regularity sets in for April!