Sunny, The Baby Goat and Other Farming Adventures

After finalizing garden plans, I was itching to get out and do what I could on our unusually spring-like day yesterday. It was perfect weather to pull rocks from the garden. If we could sell rocks and multi-flora rose bushes, we'd be millionaires. 

While I was at the garden near the goats, I let Sunny, the baby goat, run around with me. I've never seen a goat so confused. He totally thinks I'm his mom. Sunny followed me back and forth from the garden to the trailer until he finally wore his little legs out and fell asleep under the four wheeler. Later, he got a ride on the four-wheeler up to the house for his lunch time bottle. There was a crew cutting trees on my neighbors place and one of the men came over to compliment my cute little billy. And to say how he'd never seen a goat follow someone around like that or get a ride on a four-wheeler.

Of course, I had to snap some pictures of Sunny:

Already learning to eat grass and weeds. That's something only his mama can teach him.

He's taller than Breuster now! I believe Sunny is the only animal on the farm who can "play" with Breuster and not get flogged.

Have you ever seen a goat smile? Sunny, the smiling goat.

Once I finished in the large garden, I put Sunny up with his mama and adventured down to our smaller garden. This one has so many rocks I didn't hardly know where to start. I'd decided I'd remove the ones larger than a baseball since there is no way I'm going to get this soil rock free...ever. That is until I crushed my thumb between a couple of the largest ones. Now, I'm after those rocks. I don't care how sore my back gets or how many black thumbs they cause. I'm going to get them. All of them. As soon as I gain movement in my thumb again...