Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
I cooked a small Thanksgiving meal and DH and I took it to my folks house. The day was fairly drama free, but ya know... with family there's always 'something'. My mother is so firm in her delusions about my brother that it's all she can talk about. I kept steering the conversation in a different direction, but it wouldn't last long before she was back on it. And, true to her 'sneaky' ways I heard from my aunt that my mom has a new cell phone - and she's hiding it from me. Sigh.... No reason to, but she is. Oh.... and she's driving again. A couple of weeks ago she told me she had written her doctor a letter and she was waiting for him to write back and give her 'permission' to drive again....
I didn't even question her or react when she told me she's driving. I just can't.
But, we got through it and they were appreciative! It does make me feel good to do little things that make them happy. But...(there's always a "but" isn't there?) It saddens me to see how much my mom has turned my dad against my brother also.
She tells me that she misses him and loves him, but then she tells my dad that my brother is a thief and they want nothing to do with him. It's been her way for years to try and keep the family separated and at odds with each other. It allows her to run her little schemes.... GRRRR.
In other news:
The new goats are good! The doe came in heat and I can only trust that Felix did his job! Hopefully we'll have new Nigi kids in 5 months!
I think I've finally gotten ahead of the parasite issues. Checked eyelids yesterday and almost everyone is looking good. A couple of them will get a re-dose of wormer and the ones that didn't get a full dose of copper a couple weeks ago are going to get more. Hope I can get to that - NO - I WILL get that done before going back to work next week.
Need to play goat shuffle again too. I've got some does that are still nursing 8-9 month old kids. Eek!
I pulled some wethers from their mama yesterday and I need to get Red's triplets off of her. That poor gal, she's looking a little strained from her big ol' 3/4 grown doelings still nursing when they can. And, she's such a softie she lets em. Dusty bred her a week or so ago, so she definitely needs a break. I'm kinda hoping she didn't settle cuz I'd love to breed her to the new buck for my first mini-Nubians. Probably have to wait on that, cuz my other two Nubi girls are bred too. I might, just might, breed some of the doelings to the Nigi buck. He'd be a good choice for their first freshening. He's so little, lol. I mean, pygmy bucks are short, but they're stout. Felix is very ... dainty isn't the right word... but it's what comes to mind. He's lighter boned and lighter bodied than a pygmy, so he'd probably make even smaller babies.
I'll think about that tomorrow. Tonight, I'm just a few clock ticks away from bed.
Happy Thanksgiving ya'll!
