Blog Vacation

My poor, poor blog.  I'm sorry I've been away, but I have been in a funk.  I didn't think anyone who reads my blog really wanted to read about it, so I decided to take a little vacation from blogging.
There are a lot of things that have gone on since my little "vacation".  I've gotten several knitting projects done, plus started several more (shawls). 

About two months ago we lost Roxie, one of our goats.  We still had one left, but she was lonely by herself so hubby watched Craigslist and about 3 weeks ago he found an ad from a lady about 4 miles from us who needed to get rid of 3 baby goats (twins born in March and 1 born in April).  We couldn't just pick 1, so now Zoey has 3 companions.

(Piper, Zoey, Leo, & Prue -

yes, I am a fan of the TV show Charmed)

I ran in the Green Bay Cellcom 5K and, despite the miserable weather, beat the goal I had placed for myself.  About a month ago I did my first 10K (6 miles) walk which I finished in 1 hour and 30 minutes.  I also signed up for the 100-mile fitness challenge that runs from July 1 to Sept. 31.  Depending on how hot it is, tomorrow I may do a 5 mile run/walk.

This past week we went up north on vacation with SIL and her family.  They always go water skiing.  For the past 3 years I've just been a spotter, but this year I bit the bullet and decided to give it a try.  The first day I tried about 5 times to get up out of the water, and was close one time.  The second day I got up on the third try but wiped out almost right away.  When I tried again later that day I got up and went about 100 yards.  By the third day I almost made an entire loop.  Practice, practice, practice!

And for those who read my blog because for quilty content, I still haven't gotten back my quilty mojo, but last week a friend dropped off 16 t-shirts for me to make into a t-shirt quilt.....so I will need to get it back soon!

That's the highlight of what's happened while I've been on vacation from blogging.  I'll post some of my finished knitting projects soon.

Hope you have a Happy 4th of July!

Introducing Zoey

Our newest family member. She was born on June 20 and was bought by our friends at the 4-H small animal auction at the fair. (Our friends have a business and buy the animal(s) for PR so then we get the goat. Better for the goat than the other alternative.) The girl who raised her had named her Petunia, but we're changing it to Zoey. She is Roxie's (the goat we got from the auction last year) sister. She is a tiny little thing. I don't remember Roxie being that small when we got her but I'm sure she was. She told me a sob story the majority of the way home. When we were leaving the parking lot you should have seen the people's heads whip around when she started bellaring....sounds just like a child screaming. They probably thought I was murdering her.



Below is a picture of Roxie (right) with Zoey. Roxie isn't too excited to see Zoey (see the hair raised on her back). She tried to ram her a couple times so we'll keep them apart when we're not in the pen with them until they get used to each other. I had thought Buddy would be the bully but I guess Roxie finally has someone smaller than her so she can finally bully someone.

Now we have to decide if we're going to keep Buddy or not. He is really sweet and friendly but man does he cause damage to the trees, even with wire around them.

I'll try to get some better pictures of all of them once hubby gets home from work. It's a little difficult to take pictures, stop Roxie from ramming Zoey, AND stop Buddy from chewing on my pants/shirt at the same time.