monday, november 16, 2009

Bull Cookies (and More)
Uzzi and I love it when Mom writes a book. She always writes about making yummy treats for the species she’s writing about and we get to taste test what she makes. More >>

monday, november 9, 2009

Martok's Story
I’m a big guy now and very manly—just ask Bella, the beautiful Nubian who came to visit last week. I helped her make babies! More >>

monday, november 2, 2009

Mom's Favorite Book
Mom is reading Uzzi and me her favorite book, Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story. More >>

Monday, October 19, 2009

Rats!
One day last week, we heard Mom say to Dad (the feed room is right by our pen), “Did you use the corn in this can that I set aside for Carlotta?” He said no. More >>

monday, october 5, 2009

The Lowdown on Pigs
We have a pig on our farm. Her name is Carlotta. We used to have two pigs, but they broke their fence one night and ran away into the woods. More >>

tuesday, september 15, 2009

Autumn in the Ozarks
It’s autumn in the Ozarks. Know how I know? There are horse flies everywhere, and they bite! More >>

monday, august 24, 2009

The Ugly Part of Farm Life
Uzzi and I are feeling sorry for Smoke and Baarley, the ram lambs born this spring. Mom and Dad banded them yesterday. Now they’ll be fleece wethers instead of rams. More >>

monday, august 17, 2009

Everybody's Got a Water Buffalo
Do your kids watch Veggie Tales on TV? Mine don’t (we don’t even have a TV in our barn), but Mom sometimes sings a song from Veggie Tales called the Water Buffalo Song. More >>  

monday, august 10, 2009

Thoughts on Horns
Uzzi has horns and I don’t. It isn’t fair. If he wants to, Uzzi can head butt the cattle panel gate really, really hard and bend it. When I try I get a headache. More >>  

monday, july 27, 2009

It's a Geep!
Two weeks ago our mom brought a baby animal to our farm. Uzzi and I thought he was a geep! He baahs like a sheep, but he looks like a goat except he has a sheep-like, hangy-down tail . More >>  

monday, july 20, 2009

Staying Cool, Part 2
It’s hot! Uzzi and I lie in the shade and watch our Mom and Dad do the chores; some days she looks pretty frazzled . More >>  

monday, july 13, 2009

Staying Cool, Part 1
We live in the Ozarks where it’s humid and hot. Heat indices have been in the hundreds already for weeks. Here are some of the things Mom does to keep us cool. More >>  

monday, july 6, 2009

A Sad Day
Everyone is sad today. Gwydion the sheep died this morning. See, sheep have to have their fleece sheared every spring; otherwise they get too hot and they can get ‘cast down’ like our grandma sheep, Baasha, did in May. More >>   

monday, june 29, 2009

Writer's Butt
Our mom has piriformis syndrome. That happens when the piriformis muscle (that’s a muscle in each side of a human’s butt) contracts and won’t stretch out again. More >>  

Monday, June 15, 2009

Feeling Frisky
Guess what? Mom says I’m in rut! The girl goats have looked and smelled especially alluring for the past few weeks, now I’m spraying myself with goat cologne so they know I’m cool. We bucks are good at impressing pretty does ... More >>

Monday, June 8, 2009

Did You Ever Want to Ride ... A Cow?
Did you ever want to ride a cow? My mom wants to ride one—or really a steer, that is. She’s raising two calves to ride: Aiah (he’s a Jersey-Holstein) and Ludo (Ludo is a water buffalo). More>>

 

Monday May 25, 2009

Martok Talks about Names
Sometimes people ask Uzzi and me how we got our names. Mom gave them to us. There aren’t any Spots or Nannys at our farm, Mom likes really unusual names. Some of us have Star Trek names. That was my mom’s favorite TV show. More >>

monday, may 18, 2009

Sometimes 'Bad' is Good! 
Our granny sheep, Baasha, almost died on Mother’s Day. It was a scary thing. See, Baasha is a very old sheep. More >> 

monday, may 11, 2009

Bon Bon Gives Birth: Part 2 
When the sun came up, Mom folded her cot, gathered her blankets, and staggered to the house. More >> 

monday, may 4, 2009

Bon Bon Gives Birth: Part 1 
If you think Mom was worried waiting for Ursula to have Lambie, you should see her when one of the goat girls kids. More >>

monday, april 27, 2009

The Mama Black Sheep Blues (Part 2) 
All day long Mom wrote for fifteen minutes, then she’d run out and check the ewes. Ursula was restless and nesting (that means she kept turning in circles and pawing the ground) but she just didn’t lamb. More >>

Monday, April 20, 2009

The Mama Black Sheep Blues (Part 1)
We have five baby lambs at our house! Four of them were born yesterday ... Mom was tapping on the keyboard when Dad came in and told her, “You’d better come look at one of your sheep More >>

Monday, April 13, 2009

Smart Sheep
Yesterday a man stopped to look at our water buffalo, Ludo. Our sheep were gathered around the big hay bale in the yard, nibbling hay. He laughed and called them “lamb chops on legs.” We could tell that made Mom mad. More >>

Monday, April 6, 2009

Writing Farm Poetry or Farm-Ku
Uzzi and I are poets! We took a walk with Mom the other day. She stopped on the ridge behind her house and said, “Look at that boys, it’s pretty as a poem down there!” ... Later, Uzzi asked me, “What was she talking about? What’s a poem?” I didn’t know but I said we could look it up. More >>

Monday, March 23, 2009

Ice storm (Part 3) Drinking Water and Melting Ice
Mom says if our drinking water isn’t clean enough that she would drink it, we don’t have to drink it either. Well, we all learned a lot about water in the next few weeks. The electricity didn’t come back on for 17 days MORE >>

Monday, March 16, 2009

Ice Storm (Part 2): How Long Will It Be Cold and Dark?
Uzzi and I were worried. We have long winter hair with a cashmere undercoat, so we were toasty warm inside our straw-bedded hut ... what about baby Hutch? And Meegosh? We didn’t know what to think. MORE >>


Monday, March 9, 2009

Ice Storm--Oh, What an Ice Storm (Part 1)
...Around midnight the sleet turned back into rain. By morning, everything was coated with ice! Lots of ice ... There was so much ice that when Mom came out to feed us, she couldn’t yank open the feed room door. MORE>>


Monday, March 2, 2009

Hutch's Arrival (Part 2)

When my human mom and dad took baby Hutch away, Latifah cried and cried. My friend, Uzzi, and I looked at each other—we didn’t know what to do. But we Nubians cry really loudly... MORE>>

Monday, February 23, 2009

Martok Welcomes His Son

Hi! I'm Ozark Jewels General Martok. I'm a big, strong Nubian buck. More »