So I lied, I didn't post any pictures that weekend after my last entry and Jen didn't yell at me either. I did get to meet and greet my new little girl and she's adorable of course. Just like most babies. We decided to name her Black Perl. Sorta after the pirate ship but I couldn't spell it Pearl because that was taken. So, as a nod to my background in computers, we went with Perl. She's growing like a weed and Holly is being an amazing mommy as usual. Princess is even trying to help out. She was inseperable from Holly and Perl while I was there. Being the protective big sister or jealous of the attention, I'm not sure which.

Speaking of Princess, we are still trying to get her bred. She showed no interest in the spring for her date with Legend. And he showed no interest in her. But it was just because it wasn't time yet. A month or so later she smelled right and there was a trial mating with Mr. Tuck. She didn't really know what to do but it proved that she's not a dud and if she didn't take with him then she should really be ready for Legend in the fall. Holly was bred to Mada Vemi's Dynamite with no problem and should have been at her peak so we should be expecting another baby from her next April/May time frame. I'm going to have a decent sized herd before I even have a farm at this rate! Though I would like to be able to have a farm and take care of them myself I'm not sure that's going to happen in the next year or more. The economy has just put a damper on most of that planning. And on sales. I'd like to be able to sell one or two of these guys to help with the whole business side of things but I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon either. So, I'm going to stick with trying to sell products. I've got to establish an account on etsy.com and see if I can get some interest there. I've got a box full of stuff to post. Maybe I'll try and work that into my schedule this weekend. Along with everything else that usually happens on a weekend at our house!

I did get some spinning done this last week which is a huge step forward. I had to re-engineer my Hitchhiker in order to get my jumbo flyer to work so I could ply but it got done and I got some plying done and started spinning some of the roving I had. That's progress.

Anyway, that's the latest, which isn't much and I'll really try to post more often, promise!