Down to Buisness

I'm pretty much the worst blogger ever. I think the problem is that I don't really think anything I do is interesting or important enough to write about. It all seems very arrogant to think people might care. Also I am super lazy. And I am a little suspicious of computers.

But apparently I have some things that people want. Specifically cheese. And milk. And later I might have eggs. Or vegetables, or berries. And maybe even bread, jam, or pickled things. And I thought that a little weekly update might save me some time and make sure I don't forget anyone. So here is what I will do: I will (try to) post a weekly update of what I have available and where it will be. I will also take requests for future items, like if you want ice cream or feta cheese next week. I bet this will happen on Thursdays. Yeah. Thursdays make sense.

I sort of live a dual life and split my time between Portland and The Coast, so I think the post will go something like this:

Thursday Update:

Hey Friends! This week from Friday, May 6th - Wednesday, May 11th I will be in Portland. I am already bringing up milk and cheese for some of you, but I still have some available if you like. Call or email or post in the comments. You can come pick things up at the farm too. Mike will be around.

This week we will have:

• Milk (of course)
• Chevre (yay!)

Other Farm News!

We worked like crazy fiends this week and got a billion things done and started. Here are the most exciting bits: The garden is all tilled and dressed and paths lined with straw. It looks lovely. We have a ton of things started from seed and plants. Too many things to list. Mostly veggies plus strawberries. I also have peppers, tomatoes, and other warm weather plants in my big boxes in the greenhouse and Grace planted a bunch of flowers too.

We had a goat kick over a huge bucket of milk this week, but instead of crying we decided that was as good a time as any to start building the new barn interior. It is beautiful and much much more space than what we had going before. We learned a lot about goats this winter and how to make caring for them easy and streamlined for us. The pens should be completed by the end of this week and we are building a separate milk and processing area. Luxury! The goats, however are super pissed about any changes at all. The have been vocal in their dissent with this plan, but we are winning hearts and minds with grain.

The new baby chickens came so we are up to 32 chickens. This new batch is partly for meat, though, so we should end up with 20ish hens and a rooster or two. The original six babies are mostly feathered and have been killing bugs in the greenhouse. We are getting close to egg time.

End Thursday Post.

I think this will work out and I will post pretty regularly because it feels efficient and purposeful. Then if you want something (especially if you are a Portland somebody) you can leave a comment! Something like:

"Please could you bring me 1/2 gallon of milk this Friday" or "Will you have feta this week?" or "I would like 8 oz of cracked pepper Chevre for a party on the 26th, can you do it?"

That was all so rambley! And I didn't even say all the things! It won't always be so confusing, I promise. Here is the breakdown:

• Posts on Thursdays (ish) with available stuff, plus farm news
• Updates if new things become available
• Leave requests in comments
• I will bring stuff to Portland every other Friday (beginning Friday, May 6th)

Spring!!!!!!!!!!

Remember like four months ago when I was all like "I'm gonna blog all the time now!" and then you were all like "hooray!!" and then I didn't blog at all? So here's what happened (it's really mature).

I asked mike to help me figure out how to post pictures on this blog. I think blogs are kind of dumb without pictures. So he showed me and was like "you just click this things and then click over here and then push this majobber and then there's the picture." And I said "wow! that's super easy!" And then I went to try it on my computer and IT DIDN'T WORK. So I called Mike over to come fix it because that is part of his job and HE COULDN'T FIGURE IT OUT. Or he couldn't make it super easy, anyway, which is about the same thing. It was confusing because it just wasn't the same thing because the pictures are in his Picasa album or something, I don't understand, but it meant clicking like three extra things and understanding the process. So then I was like BLOGSPOT! YOU ARE DEAD TO ME!!! And that's what happened. I wish that was just a silly story, but it's true. Also much of the last few months have been boring. You can only post: "I baked some bread" so many times. Plus I don't think anyone wants to here about how I leveled up on Oblivion.

But here's the problem. Now that it's spring there is a billion things to talk about. There are baby goats! (how lame is that with out a picture?) There are baby chicks! (again, who cares if you can't see their fluffiness?) There are daffodils! There are seedlings galore! There is a chicken coop! There is the beginning of a pond! With frogs! There is a new pen for the kids and Mike built the sweetest tiny hay feeder for them and a little play ramp. It is so adorable your heart could almost burst! (Seriously). Pretty soon there will be a garden with new plants to talk about! We are so super busy and so much is happening.

So what are we going to do? Don't worry I have two plans. I am still pretty mad at the internet or blogger or computers or whoever is making it less than simple to post pictures, but I do want to tell you stuff so . . .

PLAN ONE: I will write a post (like I just did) and then Mike will post a "picture post" with the appropriate pictures. This plan blows. mostly for Mike. PLAN ONE.FIVE: I write a blog post and then Mike inserts pictures into it. This plan also blows for Mike.

PLAN TWO: I log in as Mike and just write "by Megan" on the post. I would have just tried this plan tonight but I couldn't remember Mike's gmail password. PLAN TWO.FIVE: Mike, can you just change this so it is one account or make the Picasa account under my name too or just fix it so it's easy for me or something?

All for now. And no more promises about blog frequency. I think we all learned a lesson about me there. But there's lots going on so I will likely have stuff to talk about. Also I want to have a place to tell people about milk, cheese, bread, and egg sales. I know! Farm products! Comings soon! I may have pickles, vegetables, and jam later too! Literally anything could happen! (or nothing)