The THING About Our Horse STORM

[Music] Good morning, guys. Welcome to today's video. Today is Sunday of a long weekend, and we are going to a family reunion. Another family reunion this summer. As you get older, you quickly learn that there's nothing better than family. I don't think I vlogged this yet. But little Posie Pig finally got moved over into her new stall beside little Snickers. They share a stall now. She's unimpressed. She does not like it at all. The first night was hilarious. She hardly slept. She screamed her head off the whole night. Aren't they beautiful pigs, though? like they're so clean and pink and I don't know him especially. This is so cute. And then Posie has that little tiny short pot belly face. She doesn't like him. Doesn't like being in here with him. This is not her thing. The other caller that I ordered, the other lead for walking in the show, I ordered one for me and one for Sophie. It arrived. Well, hi Posher. How are you? I call her Posh. Poshy Posher. And little Hazel. And little Millie over there. Hello. Hello. >> Sam over there. Say hi to all the babies. Do you know their names? >> No, I don't know any names. >> You know at least one name. >> Uh, [Music] >> Posh. >> You know Posh. What about the new baby? >> Can't remember. Haley >> Hazel [Music] or fabrication. >> Despite its many flaws, it could be one of those who saved my life and again. [Applause] You are so cute, Miss Millie. You are so cute. She's the smallest one now. Even Oakley, I think, is bigger than her. And then that little one over there, Winnie. Oh, she's so fat. The thing about family that I've discovered that I didn't know before is that like when we were young, we raised our kids together. We raised our kids together, our babies together, and then as our kids got older, like like 10 and 12, and they got more into doing their own thing, and life just got busier somehow. We kind of separated a little like not we were still family and we still did things together, but not the same. Like there's this big separation that happens when your kids get to the stage where they don't really want to go anymore. They don't want to like be at family stuff anymore. So, we kind of separated a little and now that we're all older and we all have grandkids. Most of us have grandkids. Um, and our kids are like off doing their own thing, we've all come back together. And it's not that we've separated. It's that we shared a certain closeness when we were young. And then when our kids were young and we were raising them together, that closeness was a little less as our kids grew. And now that our kids have completely grown or mostly grown, we are all getting back together and getting that really close closeness again. And it's wonderful. And the reason it's wonderful is because nobody understands you in this earth on this earth the way your parents do and the way your siblings do. Like only other people who have had the same exact experience that you've had are your siblings. So, like they're the ones that are designed to understand who you are and to love you unconditionally. And like it's been amazing the last few years getting to get really close again. Like we're having this family reunion today and none of the kids are going to come. Hardly any of the kids are going to come. So like, woo. It'll be Sam and and I and my sisters and my my sisters and their husbands and then my brother who's single. So, we we have so much fun together. Like, we it makes when you're with your family, with your siblings, you feel young again. Like, you feel so young. Back to the chubbiness of our herd. I'm reducing their feed a little, but it looks like they ate this whole thing last night yesterday. Surely to God, Blossom will stop feeding her babies. Hi, babe. Whoa. Out you go. Out she go. Everybody out. Surely to god this goat is not pregnant. I don't have any other signs in her being pregnant other than she's bulked up a bit. And we like struggle with our feed because there's so many of us feeding. Sophie and I both feed the girls and I feel like I feed less and she feeds more. But yesterday they all looked really chubby. They all came in really chubby. Millie is for sure smaller than Oakley now. And Oakley was the smallest goat born on our farm this year. But that white one there that's fighting in the corner over there, she is obese in massive amounts. And it's I think because of she gets the lion share of her mom's milk. She's 6 months old, maybe even 7 months old. No, she's 6 months old. and her mom still feeds her like around the clock. It's the most annoying thing ever. [Music] And the two babies, I just love them. Love them. I cannot wait to show again. But the thing I noticed about Tilly that makes me honestly so sad, like the most sad ever, is that she used to be the herd leader and she's been demoted. Blossom is now the herd leader. And the reason a Are you She's in heat, you guys. I know she has thing that I've noticed is that she didn't have a baby this year. I don't know the rules about I don't know the goat rules about about the herd, but I know that wow 150% she didn't have a baby and it demoted her in the herd. Like she's been off on her own all the time. She only comes up and interacts with the other goats when she's in heat. She's off on her own. She has nobody connected to her. No other goats. Oh, I just feel sad for her. Like it it's crazy like when all the other goats are having babies and it it raises them in the herd. Like look at little Cricket. She's and she's pregnant now and she's already risen up in the herd so far. She's at the point now where she fights all the other goats. She would never ever have fought the goats before she got pregnant. Not ever. You just change. I guess you just change when you have a baby. She's like, "Let me out right now, Laura. I have boys to see and things to do." I'm excited for her to have a baby next spring. She's going to be the first one we breed this year. She looks so good. I love her color. I don't even know what color that is. I guess it's gold. She looks like a gold chamo. Actually, she's got those black legs and that black stripe and the black stripes on her face. I don't know. I don't know this color, but I would say she's a gold chamo. If she didn't have those horns, I'd keep her even though she's not friendly. All right, hit the road. Come on. Go out. She's going right to that fence to see her boyfriend. [Music] I just love standing here looking at them. Do you guys know our goats? Like when I watch other people's channels that have goats, I can never tell them apart. I don't know who's who. I don't like relate to them even though I love goats so much. Does that is it like that for you guys or do you guys know them and under like and like our horses? How you know the horses? Do you know the goats? I mean other than Blossom, everybody knows Blossom because she's so annoying. So that baby is obese in every way. Her whole body is obese. But I don't know how to feed. I guess I'll just have to keep her away from the feed until it's close to the end or something. I said, "I don't know how to keep her weight down and her and that brown one who's tall and thinner. I don't know how to keep her weight up and her weight down, if that makes sense. You done? You ready to go out? You got to go on a diet, too." Because you're a show girl and show girls need to not eat so much. I'm obsessed with Pasha's body, though. I love how long she is. Hi, babe. She's like, "Don't walk me, Laura." You know, I want to [Music] Yeah, good girl. Yes. [Music] Come on. Oh, you're such a good girl. You are such a good girl. Good girl. I just let them have a couple bites of food after they walk. Good girl. Good girl. You're such a princess. Good girl. Yeah. [Music] Hazel absolutely is uh the more easygoing goat. They're about 3 weeks apart in age, but Posh is my dream goat. Every time I put the camera like this on me, it when I edit, I see that it's blurry. I don't know why that happens. Posh is for sure my dream. I just wish she would walk with me and I hate walking her because I feel it damages our relationship because she's like, "You make me walk." Sophie and I are getting rid of all of our chickens this year. We're keeping our ducks because they're really hard to get. And we're getting rid of all of our chickens except for this one. So, in the chicken coupe this year, once the chickens are gone, we're going to revamp it and freshen it up. And then the only animals in our coupe this winter are going to be our ducks and this chicken. We've both decided like Sophie cannot bear to part with her because in our house we value animals and people that are different from everyone else. We we value people that follow their own journey. School they teach our children to be like everyone else. Follow along. Stand in line. Never raise your your voice. Never stand out. They scratch you. Where is it? Underneath here. Hey, where is it? Where's this itchy spot? Hey, stop being mean, Blossom. It's okay. Hi, Oers. I feel like I've hardly spent any time with Oakley. Oh, there's Posh under my armpit like always. Hi, Millie. So, do you guys know I think I told you this before. Do you know how you tell how fat your goat is? If your goat is obese, you look at their tail. See this part of their tail right here? And if it's super fleshy like that, that's how you can tell if your goat is overweight. These are all of our brown goats. We have a lot of brown goats. You can hardly tell who's an adult in this picture and who's not an adult. Obviously, she's got big horns, so you can tell she's older. But honestly, they all look big now. They're so big. These guys are 6 months old now. Okay, so before I go up to the house, I wanted to show you guys I've been organizing my first aid kit or my baby station. I've been using this little basket on top here to put all the things. Like I have a flashlight in there. I have my chains for showing. We're going to take those with us. I need to make like a bag, a show bag. So, in here I have a lot of my medicines, some peroxide. I have alcohol, but I have it up at the house. A lot of my injectables, um, my needles, eye cream that I have left over from Nico in case I ever have another goat that gets an ulcerated eye. Uh, in the top shelf here, I have down there, these papers. These laminated papers are all my birth information in case something goes wrong. I have those to look at. And then I have like my gloves in here. More needles. Just some in here is just a duplicate of what's in there. My iodine. I have an iodine spray bottle which I will forever use now that we that I accidentally poured iodine into one of my goats eyes. Some Q-tips. And then this is all my towels. I'm so excited. I actually have some more at the house that I've been using to clean water buckets. So, I'll Oops. So, I'll bring those down. But these are all the towels that I have. And then in this bottom, I have to get some more. I need to get some more of these pads. I think I only have two left, which is probably enough for two babies. Um, but you guys, I've been collecting these sweaters for the whole entire summer. So, I have a ton new a ton of new sweaters for our goats because we like to breed in winter months. These are my favorites. These pink ones, they always wear those, but and some of them are a little bit bigger and some of them are a little bit smaller, but we always have a variety of sizes of goats. This is one of my favorites. It was Ellie's. She doesn't wear them anymore. We have some for girls and some for boys. This is one that gets used all the time on our little boys. I think I have 13 blankets now or I think I have 13 sweaters now. Have lots of variety now. Lots for girls, lots for boys, more for girls. So hopefully that is how our birthing season goes. But I am excited. I am super excited. I actually crocheted this one for the little pig that was born and it's so cute. It's just that we never have a goat this tiny, but I want to keep it. I should wash it. I'll put it in the wash pile. Oh, and my scissors. I have to clean those. And also, I have my kid pullers over here. I have two of them. If you guys don't remember, these are used for a kid that has its head turned back and every time you try and straighten the head and try and bring it out, it flips its head back. So, this will keep the head forward so you can pull it. Hopefully, we won't need those this year. He's like, I'm looking for all the food. If you're wondering what I'm going to do with this stall that is empty now, it has the feeder in it. This is Posy's stall. I'm going to have to clean it out. I'm so sad. It's the saddest thing. But, it's going to be fall soon. The weather's getting so much nicer. So, I'm just going to plug away at this. Maybe every day just go slow and fill my wheelbarrow up every single day. Take a load up with me when I leave because I want to get this ready. This is going to be our new boy pen. This is Sam's going to have to build stuff in here. The reason we decided to do it in here instead of over there, which is that's a nicer stall is because this stall has a feeder. Just way easier to feed them. But yep, this is going to be a job. This is what I'm taking to the family get together. It's at my sister's cottage. It is uh just some squares. And then I'm bringing a big Greek salad. Greek salad is my favorite. The dressing that I use, Rene's Greek. M. It's creamy and yummy. I'm going to bring this big bucket and mix the salad in this. And bring some tongs with me. Ellie, I want you guys to look at how cute Ellie looks. Just wait. Stay there, Ellie. Stay. Doesn't she look Ellie? Doesn't she look so cute? Ollie's like, "Oh, come Laura. I'll behave." Annoying. That little Ellie. She's a little firecracker. I thought they were going to run into me for sure. [Music] Gosh, [Music] they're so funny. Allie Ellie, stop right now. Stop. Sit. Ellie, sit. Ellie, sit. Sit. Stay up. Stay. Sit. I want them to see how cute you are. Sit. She's so so cute. Maybe if I'll get a Yorkie next time. I think I'll get a Yorkie again. Nope. Never. At the beginning of the summer. At the end of last winter, actually. I guess last winter I was feeling old. I was feeling like old and now at the end of the summer I feel young again. I feel like I could get 10 more dogs in my lifetime. I won't be. I feel like I could. We're going to do another big barn party cuz we had so much fun. Like it was the party of the year if you ask me. And everybody that was here was like we will be back to this. Like this was it was so much fun. Like it was the music I think the big space. I don't know. And just being outside. So, we're going to try and do Thanksgiving this year. We're inviting everybody, though. Like, like one of my sisters has older kids that are like like my oldest kids are 30. My oldest daughter-in-law is 38 years old. Like, she's almost 40 years old. Like, it's it's insane. Like, they live far away. But not everybody can always come. But at Thanksgiving this year, we're going to push them. We're going to push all of them to come to this big huge party. I'd like to see like 60 people here or even more. I'd like to see a lot of people here at Thanksgiving. And we're all gonna bring food and we're gonna have like a real old-fashioned Thanksgiving on the farm. Ew. Hi, Stormy Boy. You're such a handsome horse. Yeah, I'm trying to go someplace. I don't want to be smelling like horse going to a party. Don't worry, we'll be back and the girls will be here to give you dinner. Okay, don't you worry about it. There's chicken in the barn. He's like, I just want to see these dogs. He loves dogs. He loves everything except for being ridden for actually he likes to be ridden. He just doesn't like to be told what to do. So like if he goes riding and he wants to stop and eat the grass, then he doesn't like it if you tell him no. He doesn't like to be told no. But he loves to be like with the dogs and with the chickens. [Music] You're beautiful just the way you are, just the way you came. Don't you know that you're beautiful?