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Hoping everyone had a great Easter weekend. The weather was nice enough.

The Rocky Bank, the Sequel You may remember that the one thing that my goats ever did, that we actually wanted them to do, was to clean up a rocky bank of saplings that was obstructing the views of the valley behind our house. Before us, many chemicals had been applied to that bank without success, but when we moved in, I was smug because I had a secret weapon—goats. Fast forward a few years and they have completely and utterly overachieved and caused devastation and destruction, the hallmarks of a goat’s work. It was a rocky bank covered in saplings. Now the saplings are long dead, and the rocks they were holding in place have rolled down the hill to make a rocky wall along the fence. These aren’t pebbles, we’re talking boulders. With the loss of the boulders, the hill is eroding back toward the goat barn, driveway, and house. We have plenty of room for goats, but we don’t have it fenced. So my little herd of goats is licking the clay off the bank (yes, they have plenty of hay), surrounded by lush pasture. All the strategies we have tried to let them access that have failed Rosie, I’m thinking of you. This week we decided to put up high tensile electric wire around a couple of acres of pasture to let them graze and keep them off that bank. This pasture is lush green, but nearly vertical, so fencing it was no walk in the park. We labored, we climbed, and we groaned, but after much longer (and more costly) than we figured, it was complete. We tested the wire and it was all working. I released the goats and got a few happy pictures of them chest deep in green, grazing to their hearts’ content. We came in for a wellearned cup of coffee and piece of cobbler. While we relaxed in the living room after exactly one sip of coffee and one bite of cobbler, I saw a herd of goats run past the living room windows. They moved across the patio like a crowd leaving a movie theater. Back to the drawing board…

Hello again from Zack. Happy April.

(StatePoint) The perfect landscape may start with a healthy, lush lawn, but for interest and depth, you’ll also need to consider the plants that surround it. Thankfully, it’s easy to make considerable improvements to your backyard life using tips from professionals.

It is time to pick up the cemetery flowers at Witts Springs Cemetery, if you wish to reuse yours. You have from now until the 20th to pick them up. Cemetery cleaning day will be April 20th unless the weather is bad, then it will be the 27 instead. The cemetery meeting is after the clean-up.

Hello to everyone again. I hope you are all doing well.

Hopefully everyone had a really good Easter weekend. The weather was nice and warm, last year it was a little cool. The Pancake Breakfast had a really big turnout. The food was good and Ms. Tammy and I enjoyed visiting with everyone.