First New Arrival

And so the circle of life continues with out first new arrival of the year. We were expecting a baby goat, just not from the mum who delivered. Baby seems to be all well and happy. Fortunately as it's a girl it's life expectancy should be quite good, had it been a boy it would have been next in line for the spit.

Also on todays events, scrapheap challenge returned to the valley with the construction of a sledge to entertain the kids for 5 minutes. They're already cold and wet and the novelty seems to have worn off very quickly.

We had some excitement last night as Monsieur LeBaron phoned, showing some concern for his horses which have been roaming wild for weeks. I ventured out in the dark and blizzard conditions, located the animals and bought them in to our barn for the night.