The kids have been doing just fine. Bella has decided to let Broken Arrow nurse, but we’re still going down every 6hours to check on them. I’m so tired, but thankful that I’m only tired from sleeping only 6hours (in less I get to take a nap - like yesterday) rather than from being completely stressed because something is wrong.

Yesterday we had some friends come over so we could burn the horn-buds on the goats so their horns wouldn’t grow. Some people let the horns grows while most use a hot iron to burn the buds. I don’t like having them burn the buds but it’s safer for everyone this way. You learn a lot when you do anything like this as well.

The Debudding-Tool

Rawhide get his buds burnt

“Momma!! Help!!”

All done, giving him some vitamin drench

Rawhide’s and Flopsy’s heads started bleeding, but thankful it didn’t last long. I was worried and was glad when it stopped. They had to hold the iron a few times on Rawhide because he wouldn’t keep still. We did all the kids except for the little one, who we’re still deciding on a name for (I say Squat because he squats when you walk up to him, but Rachel says Rooster because his markings looks like a rooster on a roof) because he’s so small. When they put the iron on the buds it makes their heads/brains pretty hot so they have to be a good size to do it. Now they all smell like burnt hair and skin. Ick! At first their mommas didn’t want them by then because they didn’t recognize the scent. Poor wittle guys.

I let Keçi and her kids out in the barnyard yesterday, and they had fun prancing around and playing with each other. Flopsy is a real cutie… she will run around her pen “tagging” Rawhide and then running off to play. So cute!

Blessings!

Since June I have been using a new face scrub that works wonderfully and is safe and all natural for your skin. I make it myself and the ingredients are very simple. You use cinnamon and raw honey, and that’s all. Honey contains many, many vitamins that are good for your body inside and out. A Spoonful Of Honey keeps the ailments down, but add cinnamon to the mix and you’ve got some powerful stuff.

CinHon Face Scrub:

1 tablespoon of cinnamon

2 tablespoons of honey

Now you can make the face scrub right when you’re going to use it or before and preserve it by sticking it into the refrigerator. I haven’t been able to do it yet, but I’d like to make some and put it in an old mask tube or face pump that way when I need it I can just squirt it out.

Because honey is naturally runny the scrub may run if you choose to leave it on for a while working like a mask, especially if it’s hot out. I prefer doing this over just washing my face with it because it is able to work on my skin longer. The info from where I originally got this recipe says to leave it on overnight but I have yet to figure out how this is done, especially because I do toss and turn during the night. If you use this scrub continually for two weeks, and especially leaving it on for at least half and hour, it is proven to remove zits from the roots.

The cinnamon is actually pretty grainy so when you go to wash it off go in a circular motion to scrub any dirt or dead skin off.

The first time I used this I was desperate to get rid of a nasty zit on my forehead and when I had applied it and rinsed it off half and hour later my zit had gone down a considerable amount. My face also felt SO soft and smelled like honey too!

I really enjoy using this and it takes nothing to make. Yes, the honey may be expensive but it’s natural and not anymore, if less, that what you’d have to pay for some good organic face wash. Go on and try it! You’ll feel the results instantly!

Blessings!

A lot of things have happened since my last daybook post! Wow, what a week and no telling what lies ahead. It’s about 2am right now, but still Monday. After I finish up writing this I’m hitting the sack for a few hours before I have to go feed Broken Arrow. He’s doing good, playing around, and being cute. Wish they could stay babies for ever! Anyways, we still haven’t named Keçi’s bucklings yet, but we’re working on it. Have any suggestions? Don’t know if I’ll use them but they’d be fun to hear.

I heard a really neat idea this week from Allison about doing an everyday daybook like as a journal. I just loved this idea! You could print off the “template” questions onto a journal-size paper and just fill it every day and make the cover out of the icon. Very cute and fun. I might give it a try.

To participate in the meme is simple. All you do is answer the bolded questions with your own answers and then link yourself at the Simple Woman’s blog each week. I’m going to be adding a question because I feel it’s necessary and I want to share. See if you can find it. You’re always welcome to check out the other ladies’ Daybooks who participated. This is a very sweet homekeeping meme that I’d encourage you to do as well.

Haha! Man, this cracks me up! This is “Father Sir” with Caleb and Joe (dog) in Louisiana at Aunt Barbara’s. He isn’t a dog person so we were poking fun at him and he decided to make a face for the camera!

Yesterday morning when I went to do the chores I had seven goats, two bucks and five does, and at this exact moment I have twelve goats, six bucks and six does. Let me tell you life at the Dixon’s is never dull nor life on a farm. If you want to lead an excited, well worked, satisfying life get a few farm animals. If not, fine, be boring. Ha!

You know the goat I thought was going to kid back February? Well she never did end up kidding. It has been a wild-ride this year trying to guess which goat was pregnant or not.  We’ve had a few mishaps with the bucks getting out of their pen, but thankfully we took care of that problem and they haven’t been out since!

Yesterday afternoon Eric went down to the barn to see what the dog was barking at and found two does in the chicken stall with three kids! This was completely unexpected. We knew that one of the does was going to kid any day (she looked like a cow), but NOT these two! Emane had two kids, a buckling and a doeling, and Belladonna had one buckling. Emane is being a wonderful Momma. Letting the kids nurse and cleaning them off, but Bella is being a pain. She won’t let her buckling nurse. She’ll lick him but she won’t let him nurse so we have to put her on the milkstand to let him nurse. I got three hours and forty-five minutes of sleep last night (er - this morning), and just as I was finishing up the chores today the goat we knew was going to kid decided to. I was afraid she wasn’t going to be able to push the kid out, but she did fine. She had two kids, but unfortunately they were both bucklings and we’d rather have does!

Right now the newest Bucklings don’t have names, but Emane’s kids are Rawhide and Flopsy and Bella’s buck is Broken Arrow. Yes, I named them myself. Here they are…

Flopsy and Rawhide

Me and Flopsy (Momma Emane laying down)

Broken Arrow

Keci’s first buckling

Keci with 2nd buckling

It has been a very crazy ordeal and I hope nothing will go wrong in the future. Today I’m praising and thanking God for his protection in all of this and the safety of the kids and the Mommas. I am praising God for the strength He gave me and Mother Dear this morning after only so short a rest to be able to go take care of the goats. I’m praising God because I know He has me in the palm of His hand and everything happens for His glory. I’m praising God for having my computer back and my work caught up. I’m praising God for the trails He puts me through to make me draw nigh to Him. I’m praising God because He loves me and will deliver me in my time of trouble.

Psalm 93:13-15

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him

Blessings!

Each Saturday join Jacque @ Walking Therein, and many others who are taking their Saturdays and expressing their praise to the Lord. To participate, you can post a Psalm/song or you can tell what impact is has had on you and your thoughts. Sometimes just the Psalm is enough. Sometimes we have to let out our own words of praise! Sign this week’s linky Saturday Psalm & Praise: Psalm 37.