On Sunday Maya Rae, Carrie Sue and I went to Eco village for the 12th day of Ridvan celebration. 
Eco Village has a great big beautiful pond. 
This time of year the frogs are very busy there.
It was just fascinating watching them. :)
On Saturday the girls and I went to the local small animal auction hoping to find a good deal on little goats.
We found these two. These were the last two pygmy goats auctioned. By then everyone was carrying a long legged goat so I got a really good deal. 
I expected to have to bottle feed these critters but nope- they eat everything all by them selves. They are really wild but Maya Rae is working towards taming them.
They are healthy and happy and active.
One Sunday recently Jody and just happened to have a day to ourselves as the girls were enjoying play dates with friends. After we dropped Maya off we had no plans so we just drove up the road.
We were way up high on a hill and we saw Keuka Lake down in the distance. We decided to head out that way. On the way we stopped for a walk by an old church and through a grave yard.
Eventually we made it to the lake. We putsed around a little then
we drove off to Watkins Glen for dinner at a diner.
Really good time. :)
All April long we have been cleaning the yard. Here's Maya Rae collecting a hundred + pieces of baling twine off the ground. There has been layer upon layer of stuff, trash, junk, garbage and rubble to clean up after the leasers left. The winter months were spent inside redoing things so the house was livable again. The spring has all been about bringing the outside back to tidy and functioning. On top of that we are trying to eek a little $ out of the budget to move forward with plans.....like fencing the entire property so our weed eaters can do their job.
On this day Maya Rae and I were bored at home so we got in the van and drove to the lake. We landed at the play ground were we had a blast playing on the equipment. I eventually sat down and just watched the show.
As is the norm, Maya quickly collected several play mates. Fun stuff.
Six new ducklings entered our world recently. We got them for back yard decoration. Very cute. 
Maya Rae has been sewing up a storm lately. Here are a few things shes made lately. 
This beautiful boy is Pasha. 
He and Harvey hit it off after many rounds of dominance games.
They have a nice big run outside for sunny days and they come in on others.
A couple of weeks ago Maya Rae participated in day long science class for home schoolers about Galaxies at the Kopernik observatory. She thought it was "torture". I thought it was well taught and in the end....as I anticipated... Maya did learn alot. She just didn't like the schooly format of it. I now know more about galaxies then I ever wanted to know. ;)
Meet Simon. 
And- Believe it or not, I jumped on that!
Here are Tofu and Jesse in the paddock. The following day they were all released to the big pasture behind electric. That's working out great so far. Right now they aren't even putting dent in the 1.5 acres if weeds and grass. I am working to expand the pasture to the full 4 acres. These guys really have it made. Everyone has calmed way down. Now they spend their days munching, sunning and playing on the rock pile. All is well in goat land.
