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<\/a><\/p>\nThen on Friday a friend came over and we spent hours and hours and hours sitting on the deck discussing goats and gardens and gossip.\u00a0 While The Other Half got home from work and hauled the boys to baseball practice.\u00a0 And her husband got home to an empty house.\u00a0 I hope he started on dinner.\u00a0 Because she was probably hungry by the time she finally left here.<\/p>\n
On Saturday we picked up my<\/span> Pretty’s new bunny.\u00a0 Harvey is a French Angora rabbit that will replace Pretty’s guinea pig, Riccio, who passed on to the great cage in the sky over the winter.<\/p>\n Harvey will also add to my new obsession<\/span> the farm’s fiber animals that provide wool for spinning.\u00a0 He arrived just in time as Simon and Isaac, the Shetland sheep, were recently sheared, leaving me with plenty of fleece to wash, card, and spin.<\/p>\n Also leaving me with 2 awkward and unfamiliar sheep in the barnyard.\u00a0 At least Simon was recognizable.<\/p>\n Isaac was sporting a George Clooney undercoat—a frosted, salt and pepper look.\u00a0 Isaac, is that you?<\/p>\n So after a sweet alcoholic treat, a relaxing visit with a friend, and a gift bunny, there was nothing left to do for Mother’s Day except, well,….you know…..<\/p>\n Go to the beach.<\/p>\n Which is exactly what I did.\u00a0 And this is where turning motherhood into the mother lode really paid off.\u00a0 Because by going for 4 kids I produced the perfect number for beach volleyball.<\/p>\n And even though there was only 18 to 22 months between each new baby, that was still enough time to ensure the Biggest could keep an eye on the Littlest when they decided to switch to wakeboarding.<\/p>\n So all I had left to do was this:<\/p>\n Hah.\u00a0 Happy Mother’s Day to me.<\/p>\n Although it’s not over yet.\u00a0\u00a0 As their gifts to me, the kids are going to complete my gardening chores all this week after school.\u00a0 Middle has promised to mow the property around the fruit trees.<\/p>\n Pretty is going to weed the roses and azaleas.<\/p>\n Big and Little are going to install chicken fencing around the new herb and perennial beds by the deck.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n