The weather lately has been wonderful-cool mornings & not too humid. But the heat & humidity are heading back, just in time for the weekend when I'll be traveling with the goats. Figures.

Got a call from the doctor yesterday. I have to go back in for diagnostic mammograms on both breasts next week. I had this happen on my left about 3-4 years ago. If they had told me that, I probably wouldn't have thought too much about it, but on both, that caught me off guard. I'm hoping it is just the weight loss has made some tissues look different, but I had lost 25-30 pounds last year before my mammogram, so who knows. I had a pity party for myself last night (I sat in the bathroom and thought of all the worse case scenarios & cried) and since then I haven't thought too much about it. Regardless of what it shows, at least I'll know more Tuesday. If it is anything but good, news, I won't tell Mike. I can see him canceling his trip and I don't want him to do that. Whatever it is can wait till he gets home.

Andy starts his part-time job at Arby's tonight. He has been called about 2 other interviews but turned them down, so I hope this works for him. Time will tell. At least he is working enough to buy his gas, which is all I wanted right now given his class load.

Put up more hay last night and more to go up tonight. We have so much, which is a good problem to have. I hope that maybe we can get some of it sold, that would make Mike feel better too.

Well, we delivered the emus to the Indy Zoo on Friday. What a great day we had! It was rainy off & on so we didn't get to see much of the Whitewater Gardens, but our time at the zoo was awesome! The gentleman we worked with on the emus spent 3 hours showing us around "behind the scenes" of the zoo. We got to go into the animals buildings where the staff only is allowed. I got to feed a giraffee his breakfast! It was so cool to be that close to such an amazing animal. We went into the elephant house and out in their yard. One of the females came up to about 12 feet away from us. Even though she was a "small" female, she was big to me!. We were also glad to see how excited everyone on the staff was that the emus were finally there. They will be in quarantine for 45 days before going into the exhibit. We hope they go thru quantine without any problems. We're planning on taking a weekend trip with the boys up to see them in their new home. I will be interested to see how they and the kangaroos get along!

Yesterday was spent shaving a couple of the doe kids for this weekend's show. I have 4 more of my togg does to do-2 absolutely have to be done, the others could wait if need be, but would have to be done before the Tennessee show. Mike is planning a little trip, which I am so glad of! He lets me go off to the goat shows & my girls trip every year with no complaints. I can never get him to take time off, so that part kind of got me, but I am happy he is doing this. He'll be leaving the 30th and be back on the 1st or 2nd. It will be interesting to hear how he enjoyed it when he gets back. He enjoys being by himself, much more than I do. I like having people around. I think he would be nervous if I went far by myself, he doesn't mind so much when I'm with the Smith's going to shows. If I decided to take off on my own to Tennessee or whereever, he wouldn't say anything, but I think he'd be hesitant. Still, he never complains about taking everything on when I'm gone. I'm especially glad he is doing this since I'm going on a cruise in November (helps me feel a little less guilty!)

Scott is heading back to school after work today. He'll only be gone 3 days a week, but he is already dreading it. I keep reminding him that he'll be done in February, but he gets so homesick, or rather he gets to missing Christina, so much. They are planning on waiting 3 yrs until she is done with school to get married-I hope that holds true so they can get some money saved up and be sure where they are with their careers.

Oh my! It has been nearly2 months since I last wrote. So much for my resolution to do this regularly! It has been a busy summer. We have been busy on the farm, but looking back I wonder where the summer went. Andy started back to school yesterday. He is a junior this year. He is taking a college level US History class, along with pre-calculus, French, English comp, accounting, chemistry! Whew. He is so excited he gets to drive instead of ride the bus and he is to start a part-time job at Arby's next week.

Our goat shows have gone well. Going to the national show for the first time was so much fun, and work, but so worth it. 6 of the 11 does we took "made the cut" which is great-I would have settled for 1. "CC" (Cotton Candy) won her class-talk about major shock! My knees got so weak I could hardly walk her out of the ring! We have 3 more shows this fall, and I'm looking forward to them.

The big day for the emus is finally coming! We are set to take the 4 emus to the Indy Zoo this Friday. It will be interesting getting to see things behind the scenes. I'm hoping to go back in a few months once they are actually out in the exhibit and see how they have adjusted. It will be nice to say that we were able to supply the zoo with these animals.

We're still putting up hay and working with the goats. I got my new togg buckling 2 weeks ago and this past weekend we brought home Scott's new Alpine buckling and a nice little doe for him. We sold his big Alpine buck while at the Nationals and his only alpine doe kid this year died two weeks ago. She had gotten pnemonia and that with the horrid heat we had that week I think did her in. So I told him I'd buy him a doe kid for an early Christmas present. He is already talking about maybe showing some with us next year since he'll be done w/ school in February. He's been home for almost 2 weeks now and I am hoping it won't be too hard for him to go back next week. Course he'll only be gone 3 days a week, so hopefully that will make it better and easier on him.