A picture is worth a thousands words

Sunday morning we opted to drive in to Houston for church in two vehicles with Tim, Christin, Sara and myself taking care of details at home before following the van. As we were climbing in the car I looked over and...

New piglets!

I sent Christin into the pen with my phone to take pictures and as she did so I turned to scan the front pasture, only to see...

Mystere was in labor!  (The bubble is the amniotic sac, still unruptured)

Christin tossed me the phone that she had used to take the pictures and...

delivered two beautiful doelings!

She handed the first one to me over the fence and I set it down to run and get supplies for the second twin.  When I returned I saw Sara's dog, Gunner, playing babysitter.

Then we had to retrieve the goats that had gone on walk-about while we were distracted and left the pasture gate open...

Needless to say, by now it was clear that we would not be making it to church on time.  This did not mean that we would not be driving to Houston, because, you see, we had goats waiting for us!

After the goats had moved in to the Houston Livestock Show we had a momma decide that she was only willing to nurse one twin for the adoring public, so we were bottle feeding one that was on display...

While there, we decided to enjoy the show for the last time...Seth tried his hand (well, make that feet) in the kids tractor pull.  He tried hard, but 75 pounds was a bit much for him.

All in all, the 2013 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo was a wonderful, exciting and fulfilling experience.  The crazy hectic Sunday was actually fairly typical.  Our goats were seen by over 100,000 visitors.  Katarina and Tim were able to work with other goat breeders and help make the goat show a success.  Katarina survived her first year on the tour committee.   During the show we continued milking goats, caring for farm and family, making cheese and yogurt and selling at market.  Needless to say, we are exhausted and relieved that even good things eventually come to an end (at least for this year!)

Just in time...

Little League starts on Saturday.