Lincoln Theater, Dailey and Vincent

E is all into experiences over stuff.  So, for Christmas last year she gave J the chance to go to a VA Tech football game with her.  She had 9 months then to work on sorting that out.  Well, J and E never came to a conscience of which game to go to.  As an alternative, J decided to go back to the Lincoln Theater.  Dailey and Vincent already had one sold out show so they added a Sunday matinee.  I jumped on getting the tickets and this time I printed them out at home.  Row G, not the balcony.  

 It was a Christmas themed show with some gospel and bluegrass mixed in for good measure.

 We all thoroughly enjoyed it.

I think the average age in the sold out crowd was about 70.  J recommends if Dailey and Vincent come to your town, it's worthwhile going to see them.  wonder what E has in store for us this year.

End Of An Era

J said it was ok to get rid of his house shoes.  

 He originally got them when he was in 10th grade.  Any identifying mark as to brand has long since worn off.  But he said his dad took a spell of ordering things from LLBean and Eddie Bauer around that time. 

 The gum soles look more like asfalt with all the rocks that have embedded into them.

Ever since J got some crocs from Walmart to slip on when he has to run outside for a minute, these have been languishing in the closet.  Now they are ready for the greenbox. 

Happy Thanksgiving

Hope everyone has a blessed day.

Doing Their Job

We just picked up our new billy goats a couple of days ago.

 The brown one is 1/4 nubian and 3/4 boer and the white is a pure bred boer.  They are 8 months old.  We haven't used a boer in several years so we thought it was time to change things up a little.

 We have turned them out with the nannies and hopefully, they are doing their jobs.

When I went last night to feed the dogs and check on the goats, I caught this sunset.  We are blessed to live in such a beautiful area. 

Trail Cam #8

It's camera trapping season again.  J and I have put out the trail cam a few times without success.   Then J took it down into the gorge a couple of weeks ago and retrieved it today.  It was a very successful spot. 

 There were several deer pictures,

 some bucks and a doe. 

 We got a two legged creature.  Only one person other than our son-in-law has permission to hunt.  We might should find out if it is him.  Then J got a picture of sometime he has been hoping to see....

 Yes, that is a big black bear wandering around in the middle of the day.

Then something we didn't want to see, those old hateful coyotes. 

 At least we have some protection.  Thank you Bumble.

Looks like the goats made a pass through the gorge.  They are doing a good job keeping it cleaned up. 

The Big Roundup

Tuesday was our big goat roundup.  They were already sold and we had to deliver them to the livestock market on Wednesday. 

 It only took an hour of walking this time to get them all together. 

 Jett (and the three other dogs) watched over the proceedings. 

 Most of the goats herd,

 but some still follow. 

 That's what 148 goats looks like.  We got them all into our large barnlot for Tuesday night.  Then early Wednesday we pushed them on into the barn to start sorting.

We culled a few nannies and kept 51.  We then sorted out 20 nice doelings to keep or sell separately to someone wanting to raise goats.  Then we kept 5 of the really small ones to maybe sell in the spring when they are bigger.   That left 72 kids to sell, our most ever.  But between the end of kidding and selling, we lost 13 to worms and coyotes.   Amazingly, my record keeping proved to be accurate, my paper count matched what we actually had.  Our weights were really down.  Between keeping back 20 of the biggest, the bad worm year, 20 of the nannies being first time kidders, and battling foot problems because of the wet weather, they only averaged 44 pounds.  Maybe next year will be better. 

The Other Meat

Looks like we grow more here than beef and goats.  Muzzle loading season is in full swing and our son-in-law came over to do a little hunting.  

He got this nice doe early Saturday morning.  Looking forward to some deer jerky...Hint, Hint.