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Swim meet, birthday party!

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30 May 2026

Today started early. We were up around 0530 to get the big three ready for a swim meet. I took the kids and dropped them off. I went back home to help with the animal chores and take over for the littles. Meagan had finished up with the goats at that point, and left to go watch the events.

The kids did well and had fun. It was a good experience for them!

Meagan got some photos of them on the big camera. I will have to get those and process them later.

Arya and Evan wait for their events.

Meagan got a nice video of the boy goats.

Randal was helping out, but had a little trouble with the hose.

We got some rain overnight. The goats were not amused.

Here I’m moving the small chickens to a new spot.

After the animal chores, I had a couple kitchen/baking chores to attend to.

I had started some sourdough the night prior and had it in the fridge overnight, so I got it into the oven.

The near loves are the new recipe I’m testing. The far loves are my usual recipe, but with a different technique. I had adjusted the baking times on this trial, but they need to be adjusted again as well. These got a little more done than I like.

New loaf crumb. Needed some more fermentation time.

Usual recipe. Came out just about perfect!

I also processed the four trays of beef stew that I was freeze drying for camp. One of the trays unfortunately was not fully dry, so I ended up just reconstituting it and having it for lunch!

I packed up the freeze dried stew into individual mylar bags for upcoming camping trips. Next, I need to make a batch of spaghetti and meat sauce.

Shortly after I finished up with all that, Meagan and the big three got back from the swim meet. Then, it was time for me to take Randal and Garrett to a birthday party for a friend’s daughter. They had a large water slide there where the boys had a great time playing in and on it!

Randal playing in the pool.

Garrett comes down the slide!

Much fun was had by all!

Randal demonstrates the proper way to eat a birthday cupcake!

After the party, it was back home for our D&D evening and movie night with Grandma!

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Friday fun day!

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29 May 2026

Today started out like most other days, with the animal chores.

I took a video of the geese, ducks, and chickens being let out of their tractor this morning. They were very excited to be free!

Radnal of course was my helper.

Evan and Meagan were busy with the goats.

We then checked the mail, because that’s what you do.

After the animals were tended to it was off to the pool to check on it.

Clarity is improving, lots of particulates/dead algae in the water still. I added some more chlorine and some algicide and clarifier.

Tomorrow I will do another vacuum pass. I have some other things coming to assist with the pool, but it’s probably ‘good enough’ for the kids by Sunday.

One of our neighbors had some trees cut down. We arranged for them to drop off the branches. The goats really enjoy them. Then we grind up the branches with a chipper to add organic matter to the soil.

After that, it was off to the homeschool meet up for Meagan and the kids.

I was having a look at one of the trees that is having some issues. Looks like this one will be coming down sooner than later. Another fun project, yay! The one on the other side of the house has a similar issue, so maybe I will try to tackle them both together.

In the afternoon, we did a family DnD session with Jarek and our neighbor.

Then it was time to do evening animal chores. Zanzi, the white goat, prefers to have treehouse dining.

The goose was giving me the hairy eyeball when I went to check on them. They don’t really like being locked up for the evening, but better safe than sorry with the fox on the loose around us.

Saturday we will be up early as the big three kids have a swim meet starting at 7!

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