Brittany’s scare, goats to Bowie, rainy day

Last week, Brittany called Mama to tell her about troubling report she had gotten from a doctor. I am a little short on the details leading up to the visit or the classification of the doctor, but one particular doctor read some lab reports that did not look good. That doctor recommended a series of follow-up lab work to confirm his suspicion that Brittany had a thyroid problem that might require urgent treatment. She was obviously concerned and let Mama and I know so that we could be praying about the situation. A day or two later, she went to see her primary care physician who was shocked by the report Brittany was giving her outlining the diagnosis she had been given. Her doctor did some quick investigative work and was able to determine that the doctor in question had read the lab report for someone other than Brittany. Britany, her primary care physician assured her, is fine. Praise the Lord! We can certainly pray for the person whose lab report did reveal a serious health issue, but that person is not someone we know. That was good news to all of us – especially Brittany and Andrew. I am not sure how often that happens, but I am glad the error was quickly addressed and corrected.

Friday evening Mama and I loaded two of our goats to take them to Bowie, so they could run with Rick’s buck. One of the two was supposed to be bred and we were watching for her to deliver this month, but that did not happen. Dolly was bred at the same time Lilly was bred. Lilly has five-week-old triplets and there was no way Dolly could have been any later in delivering than this week if she had been bred. So, she and Millie went off to the breeder. While we were there, Rick offered to sell Millie for us, but Mama does not want to part with her. She may not be friendly, but she has given us two sets of triplets. She would sell Dolly if Rick had a buyer – and she was sure to let him know that. Mama also let Rick know that we have two other little females we are trying to sell – Kia and Yukie. Kia is old enough to breed but Yukie is only six months old. Rick offered to sell both of them for us. We happily accepted. They will go to his farm Friday evening since I will be traveling tomorrow through Thursday. It will be a huge blessing to sell them.

And, while we got that bit of good news, we also got a call on one of our little bucklings. Since we have had no success advertising the little ones locally, I placed an ad for them in Little Rock. Mama and I are currently looking at properties in that area so it seemed a good place to sell goats. The caller negotiated with Mama over the course of the day Sunday and I think they arrived at a price and delivery method, but I am not certain. I do know Mama was working on both of those items late into the evening Sunday. She was even texting back and forth as we were eating chips and sandwiches after church last night. She does not know I was watching her talk with the wife of a missionary couple sitting with us, deal with Cheyenne as she picked through her selections from the banquet while playing with Aliza and text back and forth with the buyer. All at the same time. She is pretty amazing.

Saturday, it rained pretty much all day. It was a pleasant soaking rain. We needed it and the ground happily drank in all of it. Mama and I used the day to clean up different areas of the house. That, and work on paperwork for our business.

Sunday afternoon we kept Yilin, Cheyenne and Aubrey. Also, Sunday afternoon we had a buyer come by to pick up a pup. We are now down to three – all males. Mama is ready to rehome the pups now. Saturday afternoon the pups got into the sunroom and chewed up some of her plants, spilling the contents of the pots the plants were in all over the sunroom. I made such an impression on the pups that they would not come to me Sunday afternoon when the buyer arrived.

Smart dogs.