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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Well, if hear of anyone else that wants to gift LaManchas, send them our 
way!

I'll gladly trade you all of our mushrooms!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>


> Early this morning eldest daughter went to check the preggo goat and sure
> enough this is what she found:
>
> www.geocities.com/one7thfarmer/cookie2.jpg
>
> She's a LaMancha and although the sire is a Nubian, the kids are all
> LaMancha, in fact, they are nearly clones of their mother.  One billy and 
> one nanny
> (no, don't bother telling me that they are properly called 'buck' and 
> 'doe',
> that is for capro-snoots and not for the hardscrabble homesteader focussed 
> on
> putting cabrito and feta on the table.)  We will keep the nanny for a 
> replacement
> milker and the billy will either be bartered or become cabrito.
>
> LaManchas have those abriviated ears called by fanciers 'cookie ears', 
> hence
> the mother's name is Cookie and all the kids she's had have had he names 
> of
> Crumbs, Ginger Snap, Sugar, and these two are Oat Meal and Choclate Chip. 
> We
> wouldn't have chosen a LaMancha, but this goat was a gift and has proven 
> to be
> quite an asset.  When the untutored see a LaMancha, they often remark 
> "What
> happened to her ears!?"   In a deadpan we say, "Oh, didn't you know?  Goat 
> ears
> are a delicacy.  We often remove the ears for fried goat ear sandwiches!" 
> At
> this point the children say 'Mmmmm' and give each other knowing looks. 
> Get's
> 'em every time!
>
> -----------------------------------
>
> So this afternoon I'm in a bit of a busy when #2 daughter comes in and 
> grabs
> the mushroom field guide and says, "I just saw the strangest mushroom, 
> want to
> come identify it with me?"  I very much enjoy the 11 yo's botany, zoology,
> entomology, and such and I was about to feel bad about turning her down 
> until
> she added,  "It looks like a big raisin on a stalk."
>
> Indeed!  And sure enough she led me to a big flush of morels!
>
> www.geocities.com/one7thfarmer/morel.jpg
>
> I'm not sure the geographic range of these fungi but they are a real 
> treat.
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