Photo for the Day: 05/24/08


Katia in the contorted filbert tree

Miss Chief and Maxine kidded

I have been so busy this week it has taken a couple of days to post this up.

Miss Chief and Maxine both kidded on Thuesday the 6th.

Maxine gave birth to a boy (Maxwell House) and girl (Nite Spot) at 11am and Miss Chief had one big girl (Lo Key) at 10 pm. Everyone is doing great.

The most amazing thing is that Miss Chief’s mother, Trouble, assisted in Miss Chief’s delivery by comforting her daughter and helped clean the baby off. We had retired Trouble from kidding last year (at age 10) after the birth of Miss Chief. She has continues to nurse her daughter and Miss Chief even took a couple sucks from her mom when she, herself was in labor. Now Trouble, has started coming back into milk and I am milking her. We have not seen her nurse her granddaughter, but she love her and watches out for her. It’s wonderful to see such a close three generation family.

Maxwell House
Maxwell House: minutes old

Maxwell House
Maxwell House: minutes old

Nite Spot
Nite Spot: minutes old

Maxwell House
Maxwell House: minutes old

Nite Spot

Nite Spot
Nite Spot

Nite Spot: minutes old

Lo Key
Lo Key: newly born

Lo Key
Lo Key, just born, with her mother and grandmother

Photo for the Day: 05/04/08

I just got back from spending the week at MINIs On The Dragon, an annual MINI event held on the Dragon and at Fontana Village NC. Over 300 MINIs were in attendance.  It was a great time.

Me driving on the Dragon.
Photo by Mark Scheuern

Goldie Jr Kidded

Goldie Jr gave birth to twin boys at 11 am yesterday.  The birth went really well and I even videoed it.

Bigsby & Carruthers

Bigsby
Bigsby - one hour old

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Carruthers
Carruthers- one hour old

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Carruthers
Carruthers- one hour old

GOATBABIES! Goldie Jr.

What did you do today? I delivered goatbabies at 11 am today (after an entire night of laying away listening to Goldie Jr paw the floor.). I did my best to record the event with my new Coolpix camera.

Please note…. some people may find this a bit “intense”. To me it is just a wonderful part of life…. a part of my life…

If you want to see the reality and joy of birth…. please to enjoy…