~Just Go With It~

My blog crashed.  A great start to the weekend to log on, and find, almost every image, in an image based site to be wiped clean away.  (Apparently when you link your tablet to your google account, and run your blog via google, it likes to store every image in said tablet and take up all your memory... and I'm working on all of that.)  :)
After a few minutes of head pounding, and choice words, I decided it was time to makeover everything anyway.  I've been getting crazy busy lately to start with, and maybe it was just time to move it all on forward.  (Or that's what I told myself)
Besides all of the pictures missing in all of my old post (I haven't quite decided what to do there), you'll be noticing a few other changes.  

• New Shopping Site!!!  This is the biggest change, and the one I'm the most excited about.  Of course you can still shop at my normal Etsy shop, http://www.whitegoatranch.etsy.com , that location isn't going anywhere (unless etsy implodes, or explodes in ways that don't fit me).  But on my new site, www.whitegoatranch.com I do not have to pay as many fees per sale (which means your money is going more towards my shop rather than some online venue, which means, more product in my shop!), and I'm not as limited to what I can share with you, and I have more ways in which to interact with you!  (Keep an eye open for some design your own features I'm working on!)
• Supplies!  I now buy all of my supplies in bulk to get both you and I the best cost I can.  Which in turn means I need to buy 6 spools of leather at one time, instead of just the 1 I need, which means I'm running out of space in my wee little Martha Cave.  So I'm sharing all my deals and supplies with you!  Check it out, and get inspired!  www.whitegoatsupplies.etsy.com 
• My side bar over -> there is growing.  I'll be writing tons more about each link over there in the coming weeks, but I'm overly excited about all of it!  Clicking on the links takes you to my affiliate links, which continues to support my many hobbies and this blog!  Thank You!!!

And there's so many things I could write about, I've been a tad bit busy!  So stick around, check out all of the links, and keep the coffee flowing!  

Thanks for dropping in!

~Emily

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All Before 7am

I'm not sure if everyone who lives in the more rural parts of their towns deal with these things... or if it's just me.  I get that when you have more animals, and more things going on, that you'll have, in general, more to deal with.  But...

So I get up, way too early this morning, which wakes up the dogs.  Half a sleep, I shuffle downstairs to feed them, then shuffle back up to make the coffee while they eat.

We have a friendly little bird, who HAS to keep a nest above our basement porch lights, every year.  We've tried taking down her nest, and putting other objects up there every year to keep her away... and she won't give up.  So we've resorted to keeping a chair under her nest, so babies won't go splat, and we check to make sure they're all safe before we let out the dogs.

As routine dictates, I head out the upstairs door, to check on the baby birds before I let out the dogs... and I see one hopping across the driveway, followed be another one, and another one...  "HUN, the babies are hopping all over!"  Because, weird, right?  He yells back, let them be, maybe they're big enough, and leaves for work.

It's now 5:15 am, and it's dark, and I continue to the basement door.  And I see a dead baby on the ground.  I walk over it, to get to the door, to grab something to pick it up with... and BAM I walk right into a thick spider web, with a big friggen spider dangling in my face.  I'm doing the web dance, while looking for a stick to remove the big spider from my path, batting at him, trying to clear the way, when I look up towards the nest....

And a thick, icky, SNAKE tail waves back at me.  (insert all sorts of heart attacks, and skin jumping, and not so nice words here)  And I run inside.

My poor dogs had to wait 2 hours for me to gain enough confidence to go back outside to potty them.  The snake was gone... but not forgotten.  *shivers*

All before 7am.  So honestly, this sort of thing is common right?  I'm not the only one?  No?  At least tell me that finding a snake above your head while battling a spider is some sort of good luck right?

Help.....  ;)