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When we packed up our 4 kids (2 stayed behind for college) and left the Seattle Washington area we had no idea the changes we were in for. We left the mild temperatures, rain and green everywhere for dirt roads, real weather change with the four seasons, wind, tornadoes, animals and a whole new life style.

In Washington my kids had felt lucky if they had a dog or a cat and that was only sporadically when I couldn't say no. Now a home with chickens, ducks, Boer goats, dairy goats, kids, horses, llama, sheep, lambs, Great Pyrenees dogs, puppies, cats and kittens.

It has been a long road for my husband and I and we have made many mistakes. I can't imagine how many more mistakes we would have made without the help of wonderful families we have met since we moved here. When I start to beat myself up because something hasn't gone right with our animals I think back to a mere year ago when we were getting start and preparing to take Sweet Pea to fair.. When our friends Greg and Gloria were over helping us and informed me that Sweet Pea couldn't go to fair it was a Sweet "Boy". Wow, did I feel stupid! Needless to say, this year I can tell the difference between the males and females and with the help of friends have learned to give shots, help goats/sheep when they need their babies pulled, put the tractor blades on the ground when moving large bales of hay (just in case you don't know the blades break if you don't) and much more important information to help keep my animals alive and equipment running. I am hoping our joining the Western Nebraska Sheep and Goat Association that we will continue to meet more families and we still have so much more to learn.

Just an added note that they have purchased some top notch breeding stock Boer goats from Nebraska Boer Goats, Hampshire sheep from High Hill Farms, and Suffolk sheep from Drudik Suffolk's . They are new members. Welcome to the Association