The view from the mow of our barn, looking west across one of our verdant hayfields. A soft yellow light washes everything, like the brief rain shower that preceded this photo. Shasta’s Howe is visible in the field. Trees and the Coast Range are in the background. The sky has layers of whitish-grey clouds with occasional openings. Near the horizon, the clouds are lit with yellows, oranges, and some pinks.

A friend took this photo on our farm yesterday. The sunset was stunning here yesterday (clearly), with rain showers, a radiant yellow sky, and even a rainbow all in the same breath.

I hope this photo and alt-text can convey some of the wonder.

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Photo courtesy of Claire Harper.

Grumpers! This picture is a few days old now, but meet Pookah. The all black San Clemente Island goat bottle baby. I have to monitor how much milk she gets, and how often. And she's both tired and wanting more milk in this picture. #smallfarmlife #goatsky #scigoats

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Mound of earth with tubes of grass on it on the middle of a hayfield, with hills and forest in the background.

“Green and long grew the grass on Snowmane’s Howe…” —JRRT

Shasta’s grave, in our hayfield in between a couple of tiny oak seedlings that we planted as acorns.

When my wife and I and Shasta are gone and forgotten, the oaks will shade her and the grass will ripple in the breeze.

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Argenta had kids yesterday. Another self-black SCI goat (male) and a cutie patootie female with frosted ears and nose. These are both higher Tepper Line San Clemente Island goats.
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We had to put our beloved Clydesdale mare Shasta down today. She had been declining this past year, but crashed pretty abruptly this afternoon. It was an easy decision to make, and she didn’t suffer very long. We will miss her terribly.

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Marvel is having one of those very goat-ish faces. I suspect she is pretty far along in her pregnancy and I notice she is spacing out more often.
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4 buckets, 2 white, 2 blue, each 2 gallon capacity, mostly full of multi colored chicken eggs. There's a red metal egg basket full of eggs as well. One blue bucket is on the corner of a rainbow rug on top of a gray tile floor, the remaining buckets and basket are just on the tile. There's a wooden bench to the top left of the view with a single golden delicious pumpkin on it - pale orange with a green tip.

It's definitely that time of year... #SmallFarmLife

Four new San Clemente Island goat kids. They were all born on April Fools and the full moon. I was too pooped to commit to a ritual that day. So far, the self-black doeling is the only one with a name, Marthe. I need to think of some fun names related to such a fun day.
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Our barn cat who sleeps inside. #SmallFarmLife

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Yrsa kidded at 4 am today. On April Fools and the pink full moon. To top it off she birthed a spectacular "self-black" doeling and a typical tan and and black buckling. Even more information in the replies now!
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A brownish-gray bunny with its ears perked nomming on some grass with a green bowl of feed next to him. His brownish-gray mother is behind him, and a water bottle shadow is projected on the wooden wall behind them both.

Rabbit Rabbit, Happy April!

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Woohoo, Yrsa kidded around 4am I had to bring the kids in the house to dry them off. Yrsa is historically intensely protective of her kids. And I have a finger bruise to prove it. I had to shield myself from a protection attack.
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Women Who Stare At Goat Vulvas, the movie. Starring me and The Liminal Farmstead San Clemente Island goat gals.

Come on, let those kids out you silly goats!

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6 9" round chocolate cakes cooling on 3 racks on a chest freezer in the corner of a room

Found a few jars of milk in the back of the fridge that were past their prime, so instead of given them to the chickens I decided to make a few cakes for the humans. One for tonight, the rest will go in the freezer for easy dessert on busy weeknights 🍽️ #SmallFarmLife

Rabbit meat, still raw, in a Dutch oven over some sauteed onions and garlic

Rabbit meat, cooked, the meat falling off the bone, braised in a rabbit stock and tomato sauce, in a Dutch Oven

A grayish tan plate on a bamboo table, the plate has a cooked rabbit foreleg, rice, and collards

Meals from the backyard are so good. Here's last night's dinner: fresh rabbit, sauce made from last year's canned tomatoes and this winter's rabbit stock, collards from the garden cooked in bacon fat from our hogs, and rice (store bought) with herbs from last year's garden. 🌱🍽️ #SmallFarmLife

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All the forward movement is being made to bring Dick, Benson, and 3 other San Clemente Island goats to The Liminal Farmstead. Dick and Benson are incredibly rare self black, and Benson sports one of a kind white splotches on his black coat.
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Only just so long you can own. farm before you've got to put up a tire swing. #smallfarmlife #homesteading #tireswing #barns

A ritual for a healthy and successful goat kidding season. With longer or deeper intentions for the same regarding success in other San Clemente Island goat reproductive projects.
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All hail!
That’s a biggun.

We have multiple small ones, some of which have been helping pretty up pathways - which seems silly now, given the probable early Spring.

And, no, the piles are not helping with pitchfork and shovel. Rather, simply by being themselves.

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Sounds like the value of my rabbits’ poop is rising.

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I did shovel about a mile worth of paths today.
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