Springtime Happenings 5/20/22

As we started explaining in our last post, the Mama Goat had her babies and there were THREE! Usually goats will have twins (it keeps them balanced while pregnant) but this Mama had three Kids. Early that morning, the Mama Goat had climbed up the mountainside to a safe cliff to protect herself and her young ones from the wind and make it easier to watch for predators as nothing of substantial threat could come down the rockface. Bryan and Jerilynn, the owners here at Rocky Ridge Outpost, were leaving for the night to run errands (anything worth going to is at least an hour away and other errands are further) so they had asked us to periodically check on the goats to make sure everything was going well.

The Mama Goat let us pet her babies as long as we were quiet and didn’t make any sudden movements. This was hard for Braydon and, after we watched the Mama almost headbutt a Barn Cat off the cliff for getting too close, we had him just sit on a rock and wait for the Kids to approach him! These babies were only a few hours old, but they were walking around and, by that evening, were climbing on the surrounding rocks and playing with each other. It was so neat watching them!

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We wanted to take this post to walk you through some of our responsibilities here at the camp. One of the aspects of our jobs here is taking care of the barnyard. Feeding the animals, cleaning their pens, filling their water, and caring for them in more personal ways such as grooming and spending time with them are all part of our daily activities. We alternate barnyard responsibilities with our friend and coworker, Konnie.

At the end of next week we are going to take a field trip over the mountain to our neighbors at the Forbes Family Farm. They are a family who practice Organic Farming and are our neighbors right across Sheep Creek. We are hoping to get much of our raw food there this summer as it has been proving difficult to find good Organic food here. We will update you on how it goes!

The other day we saw the Lunar Eclipse of the Blood Moon and we had front row seats on the picnic table outside of our bus! Living on the East Coast we were usually in the wrong location or in too brightly-lit areas to see Lunar Eclipses, but this one out here in the middle of nowhere was AWESOME!

Next week, we will share some of our other responsibilities around the camp such as flipping the cabins in between guests, grounds keeping, and even setting up the Tipi! This is such a beautiful place in the middle of this beautiful country and we feel so blessed to call this place “home” all Summer!