This week was great one for schooling with an introduction to sculpting clay for the kids and a great field trip to the Austin Nature Center and then onto Zilker Park in Austin for some cooling down in Barton Springs.
Here at the farm, we have officially begun looking for a buck (we're talking goats here)to purchase in order to breed our nigerian dwarf goat Skyla. We also have a Toggenburg doe named Cat, but have decided that we are going to stick to the nigerian breed for our milk purposes. Originally, we got Cat because her breed in known for producing large quantities of milk in the 2% milk fat range while the nigerian dwarf breed has more like 4% milk fat- better for cheese making. BUT...the kids (the human kind) don't like Cat's milk because of the strong flavour and prefer the milk that we got from the neighbor's nigerian. Skyla has not been bred in over 4 years, so she we have no idea what her milk production will be like but we are going to find out. Wish us luck!
Mid-week, my internet connection was finally repaired as well, so hopefully I will not be losing my connection constantly anymore. Blogging has been a frustrating adventure lately due to losing great quantities of writing before the post disappears into the great ether void.
If you want to see pictures of the trip to the Nature Center and Park, log onto lakesareahomeschooladventureclub.blogger.com and look at the slideshow on Picasa.
Still no conclusive news about health care coverage for Elder's eye but it sure has been interesting listening to the political debating about health care reforms - mostly seems like more sticky manure to me.
Hang tuff everyone.
Robin
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