I am not at all sure how I have completely skipped over most of the 2007 growing season and right on into the beginning of the 2008 season, but I have. I offer by way of excuse the devastating drought last summer and also some personal issues that required a lot of my attention and energy. The drought meant that the growing season was cut short even in my little square foot garden. We had lettuce in the spring but come the summer everything limped along rather miserably until I finally just gave up and went to the beach! Also it became necessary this past summer for us to disperse our herd of Nigerian Dwarf goats. They are greatly missed, but two do live right next door and come to visit...usually around feeding time. Abby the Arab X is still with us, but Ginger Pony, who turned out to be a BLM mustang, has completed her early training, under Elizabeth's skilled hand, and gone on to her next home with lots of kids and the attention. We do still have our flock of multi-colored heritage breed chickens which are providing plenty of free range eggs for us and our customers. Spring plans are to enlarge the square foot garden and build some better raised beds for it and of course there is the ever-constant cleaning of outbuildings, maintaining fences and the like. We do now at least have things on the farm to a point where no large projects loom and that is somewhat of a relief.