Who's tired of flip flopping? Me.

Ugh. As I predicted would soon happen, I have run out of free image space on blogger. I know I have switched back and forth between blogger and wordpress like 5 times, but I'm switching BACK over to my wordpress account because it's just not cool to not be able to post pictures.

My wordpress website is: joannaweaves.wordpress.com
Sorry about the inconvenience. Of course my blogger account will remain up for archives. Please follow me or RSS me at my wordpress account! Thanks!
~JoAnna

Peach

I finally got to take some pictures of baby Peach and mama Belle. :)

This is Peach. :)

She looks a lot like Olivia to me. Just a touch darker.

Belle is the mama. She's doing pretty well!

This year's babies all seem to have long hair! It's weird because before this, most of our goats were short haired. We had...four with long hair.

Peach's eye is a little watery. We're watching her closely, but this sometimes happens to baby goats and they out grow it.

Peach is about...4 days old now. We weren't even sure we'd keep Belle or breed her this year because she has a problem with her udder. (Which means she's not so useful as a dairy goat) Only one side of the udder produces milk. This has caused several different complications for mama and baby. First of all, we won't be able to milk Belle and will most likely have to sell her. :( We're very attached to all our goats. But this is also a problem for Peach because she still needs the milk and the mama doesn't produce enough for her to really get full. We are having to supplement Belle's milk supply with another mama who lost her baby. We've had to do this before and it works well, but it also tends to cause problems for mothering because Peach knows she gets milk from more than one mama so she gets confused which mama she's supposed to stay with during the day. Supplemental mama, Rocky Road, won't care for her since Peach is not her baby. We have to put Rocky Road on the milking stantion and give her grain to allow Peach to be able to nurse. Once she's weaned everything will be fine it just makes for a more involved baby. But that's okay too because we all like getting to hold baby goats. :)
~JoAnna

A post about Mac!

I regularly read Sarah Haskell's blog, macomberloomsandme.blogspot.com. She recently posted about how weavers all seem to love their looms so much and asked readers to write in and tell her about their looms. I wrote her yesterday and she posted my email this morning! Check it out at macomberloomsandme.blogspot.com
~JoAnna

Blah

I feel like I've had nothing interesting to post lately. I'm completely stuck with weaving stuff right now. I'm still twisting fringe because I gave up on it for a while but then I remembered I have a deadline and need to get it done because I have to give it to someone!!

Some days I really struggle with wanting to be on the farm and wanting to work on my loom. I can't do both at this point. It's frustrating. I want to get the two table runners on my loom and off and weave a few more scarves. I also have several hats I'd like to knit too. But I only have three days a week to work on my loom and I have already used two of them this week. Anyway I'll be back at the farm tomorrow. Tuesday it was raining A LOT so I didn't get a chance to take any pictures.

We named the most recent baby goat Peach. She looks very much like Olivia. Another one of the mamas had a baby but it died. Historically she's not consistently a good mother. She did okay last time but not before that. Anyway there are probably four more mama goats that are pregnant. Hopefully they'll have their babies soon. :)
~JoAnna

Tangled? I think yes.

Today has been just lovely. :) I spent most of the day with my sister. Since she's living back at home until the next big step in her life (like me) we had the unique pleasure of eating breakfast together, tea and toast (earl grey), and then going and watching a silly, wonderful movie together this afternoon.

I think most little girls (although not all) love Disney princess movies. I know that I'm a huge fan of Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, etc. Today we went and watched Tangled. I was a bit skeptical of how good it was going to be. Lately I have been...underwhelmed by Disney movies...That's not including Pixar movies. Pixar can do no wrong, I swear. Anyway, Tangled. It is, apparently, the 50th full length animated film that Disney has produced and I must say, what a perfect addition to the Disney collection it makes. It was everything a Disney princess movie should be.

You should know that I'm a big Chuck fan. It's a great show and I love Zachary Levi. (Who also happens to play the male main character in Tangled) I enjoyed this movie so much. :) It was so fun! I was doubly impressed to discover that Zachary Levi did all his own singing! My sister and I were sitting there during the movie thinking, "Is that him?? Really? Nah. Must be an imitation..." But no. He sings and very well I might add. I'm always impressed when an actor is also blessed with a good singing voice. Mandy Moore was the voice of Rapunzel. I must admit, I'm also a fan of Mandy Moore. I just love her voice. And in this movie, it was reminiscent of the Little Mermaid. The music was very well done and also followed in the Disney tradition. All around wonderful. If you're a fan of Disney cartoons, this is not one you want to miss. :)
~JoAnna