I posted this video to Break.com almost a month ago. They put it on their featured page the first day and since then it has received over 450,000 views. It was so popular that some people were green with envy over its success. Allegedly Break pays people for videos they feature. Submit a video so [...]

Filed under: Internet on January 30th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Minnesotans grow to love to hate Minnesota weather. Local residents (especially those of Scandinavian descent that frequent these parts) proudly call dealing with the local weather being “hardy” and try to laugh it off. I guess it’s better to be deluded and consider oneself hardy than just be miserably cold and feeling stupid for having [...]

Filed under: Home, Weather on January 29th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Kim decided to disbud the kids born a few weeks ago. She and Andrea took the goats somewhere today to have it done. We’ve never done it on any of our goats before, but having had horned goats it seemed like a good idea, and apparently it’s better done when they’re young. Disbudding removes the [...]

Filed under: Farm on January 26th, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I finally got around to posting some pictures of the baby goats (kids) that were born on January 13th. Even with the bitterly cold weather they seem to be doing fine, although they do have the benefit of a heat lamp in the barn. More pictures are here. Last night the temperatures fell to 22.7 [...]

Filed under: Farm on January 24th, 2008 | No Comments »