On the road again

Yesterday was a little exhausting, but good in the end. The large herd got a job, which is wonderful. They had run out of stuff to eat and needed to be moved somewhere. It's much better when they're on a job rather than just parked.

I went out the day before and clipped a path through the blackberries so I could get the fence in. The whole area is so large that I have to carve out little chunks at a time. It's hard to tell in this picture, but the fence goes straight down a steep hill.

Here's what it looks like after one day on the job. I have a lot of clipping ahead of me!

It's still been hot and very humid, so yesterday's task was more difficult than usual. I was very happy to have the goats set up in a spot where they can eat happily for weeks, but I was more than ready to relax when we were done. My friend and ex-business partner helped me move the trailer, since I need a spotter when backing up the big trailer, so we hung out at her house for a while after we were done and decompressed. There may have been wine involved.

We saw a hummingbird buzzing around the crocosmia, and I managed to get a few pictures, but they're more silhouette than anything.

I had to stop one the way home and grab a couple of cloud photos.

Today I moved the fence for the smaller group, which was also a sweaty task, but hours shorter than yesterday's. The little guys keep managing to escape since they have run out of food and are bored. Yesterday when I went to feed them I found them all in the barn, contentedly munching on the hay I just put in there. Today two of them were out. They have enough to get them through a couple of days, though, and that will give me time to start clipping the next path for the big group. It always feels good to get everybody set and know they will be okay for a few days. More often, it turns out that I am bouncing from one feeding crisis to another.

I wish I could say that tomorrow will be quiet and relaxing, but that is not the case. My friend and her husband are leaving for two and a half weeks on a canoe journey with his tribe, and we are babysitting the two puppies they adopted from us. That means we will have six dogs for the next little while, along with all the usual chaos, so there will be very little relaxing, I fear.

Have a good night, everyone! I will be sleeping well!