That is an embaressing fact! Although I used to be the best correspondent over the last year I and my devices are not friends. Sorry. Our solar crashed and we were offline. Now I'm trying to catch up. Will WA tonight...maybe....

YAY for goats. I'd love to know how your Nigerian (dwarf?) goats are. Yes. I currently milk by hand. Considering I only have one girl in milk. I prefer it. But when I have a couple dozen to milk the machine is better. Also I'm the only one on the farm who can milk by hand (apart from my children but they are still getting up to speed as it's rather demanding on the hands). Hope you get your dogs sorted out. Mine have been told that they ARE expendible and the goats are NOT!

Your fire story is amazing! I am so impressed