Entirely too busy to post, so…thought I would show you the kids: all four of them!
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Wendell Berry:
"We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it."
--from an essay in "The Long-Legged House""The word agriculture, after all, does not mean "agriscience," much less "agribusiness." It means "cultivation of land." And cultivation is at the root of the sense both of culture and of cult. The ideas of tillage and worship are thus joined in culture. And these words all come from an Indo-European root meaning both "to revolve" and "to dwell." To live, to survive on the earth, to care for the soil, and to worship, all are bound at the root to the idea of a cycle. It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term "agribusiness."
"Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating."
--both the above are from essays in "The Art of the Commonplace: Agrarian Essays"Is this so hard to believe?
"An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor, or Ba'al, or The Golden Calf. As has been said before, we are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further," Richard Dawkins, 2002.
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Too cute!
Great photo!
Wow, this is very inspiring. Your kids are beautiful! Happy business to you.
that is a great picture!
most. adorable. ever.
Well thank heavens you are finally too busy to post 🙂
I have a big blog inferiority complex, because of all that you (and the others I follow) do on a daily basis yet somehow still manage to post at the end of the day!
Wonderful, wonderful picture.
Wow, how absolutely adorable! Thanks so much for sharing…..precious.
Super cute!
Nice kids!
Aren’t the kids (both kinds!) so much fun?! I completely understand the “to busy to post” thing…that’s where I’m at right now:)
To answer your question about the blue eyes…it’s not too uncommon in goats! I’ve got a few with blue eyes and they’ll probably change a little as they get older!!
~Jenna
p.s. Is T-Bell giving enough milk for all three bucklings?
Hi Jenna! Thanks for your answer about the blue eyes. I think you’re right, and they could change. She IS giving enough milk for them…but none for us! Actually, that’s not true: I was planning on not taking any of her milk for ourselves until we passed the 2 week mark. I still milk her out, morning and evening, and just save the milk for the one kid she somehow just doesn’t want to feed (though when it’s dark and she can’t tell who’s who, he does get his share). I hope her production picks up though: they’re growing SO fast!!! They got disbudded and castrated on Tuesday and they’re doing really well.
Every time I see the kids (well, the goat ones) I think “They’re wearing Cosby sweaters!”
I just love that kid’s face….all that enthusiasm and joy.
I meant the kid with the fingernail polish; the others are cute as well, especially the one with the valentine marking.
She’s pretty fancy for a farmgirl, eh, Pamela? Definitely doesn’t take after her mother that way. And: the kid with the heart is our bottle baby; he’s super sweet.
El, this is probably the cutest picture on the Internet.
*melt*
Hey, can you give the goats a mani-pedi too? Maybe a soft coral?
Great photo! Also, your oldest kid’s glasses are awesome. I wish glasses had been cool when I was that age.
It doesn’t look like any guys have weighed in here, so to prove that men aren’t immune to adorableness, I’ll just add my, “Oh, fer cute!” (in my best Minnee-SOH-ta accent…). Simply charming, thanks El.
Brett
Oh my goodness… cute kids… all of them!
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All: aren’t they DARLING? And hilarious, I cannot even attempt to convey how funny they are. Sadly, they won’t be with us forever.
Karen: goodness it shouldn’t be a big deal to post (this is what I tell myself) but I have had both work deadlines, a milking routine, and the craziness that is spring planting to mess with my posts! I didn’t know that not posting could cause you agitta…sorry! I am human too I guess!
Jenna, hah. The milking is still going well but I do wonder if she’ll run out for them…they’re eating hay now at least. And if I could get her away from the grains then maybe they could have some too.
Emily, now that’s funny.
CC, I think fuchsia is more their color.
Lyssa, she gets to pick ’em out and hasn’t gone wrong yet.
Brett, aw.
All 4 kids are beautiful! As a city-dweller, I envy you, and think it’s wonderful that your daughter can enjoy such natural pleasures and celebrate life in many forms.
What a great photo!