A Few More Pictures



You wouldn't think that turtles and snails were so interesting, but they do have their moments. The turtle is actually pretty active, although the snails don't do a whole lot. They make a difference in keeping the tank clean. Well, the turtle's shell gets pretty slimy so I shouldn't have been too surprised to find a snail latched onto the turtle's back eating the slime.



Jitterbug needed her picture posted. Here she is being milked. With one lone milker we are still getting plenty of milk, and hers tastes really good. It's rich and creamy - none of that low-fat stuff. I haven't had hers tested since we haven't been on milk test during her lifetime, but her mom consistently tested at 6 percent butterfat. People ask if you can tell the difference between goat milk and cow milk by taste. Well, since so many people are used to skim or low-fat (that's what I grew up on) and average cow milk is 3 percent butterfat but the so-called whole cow milk they sell in grocery stores is standardized to 4 percent, you will notice a difference if you taste our goats' milk. If you're used to whole milk you probably won't notice. The difference is actually better quality though. The flavor is the same - this is just richer. Sometimes we do skim it, but since goat milk is naturally homogenized it takes a long time for the cream to come to the top (up to a week in the refrigerator and it would go bad before it separated if you left it out), and we don't have a separator. The fat in goat milk is said to be digested differently than other fats though, so for reasons I don't understand it is okay.



Ophelia and Emily couldn't be left out. Now you see the goats we are keeping. I should be featuring sheep that still need homes. Maybe I will start doing that.

I had a bit of unexpected time available today since I was supposed to go demonstrate soap making and spinning at Relief Society but it got cancelled at the last minute, so I wound up with some blogging time. I added a few more links over to the right too. There are a bunch more that I plan on adding. I really should do a links page. I do try to link to people who link to me, as well as other sites that I like too.

A while ago there was a discussion about the etiquette of linking over on Wendy J.'s blog. Bloggers all want to be heard - isn't that why we are doing this? So, of course who links to whom can get to be a touchy issue. Here are my thoughts on it: I don't expect people to reciprocate links when I link to them. Not everybody even has a list of links on their blog and if they do I respect their judgement in choosing sites to include according to their own tastes. However, I always appreciate it when anyone links to me and I usually link back to them. I don't think that there is anything wrong with asking someone to exchange links with you either, as long as you can accept "no" if that is their answer. Links are what make the internet run! I have heard that if you know where you are going you can get from any page on the internet to any other in no more than seven clicks, due to everybody interlinking so much. That's amazing, isn't it! If you want more traffic, though, there are more efficient ways to get it than asking everybody to link to you. There are webrings, and directories such as Aortal and Globe Of Blogs. You can register with search engines although I never have and they pick me up anyway. Then, there is always paid advertising. What do you think about all this?