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Born to Caroline…….1:47 p.m.     Maybe the most beautiful little goat i've ever seen.

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  1. suzanna Avatar

    Wow! Congratulations! What markings…like a little spirit cloth…

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  2. jude Avatar

    a magic goat!

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  3. deanna7trees Avatar

    nature knows how to do it perfectly.

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  4. Henrietta (aka ani or zani) Avatar

    i think the little miss is smiling for the camera. did you say, “queso?”

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  5. grace Forrest Avatar

    i’m pretty sure, but not sure yet, but pretty sure i am
    going to
    claim her.
    if so, her name is Jude’s Magic.
    her herd name, the one thats mark will be tatooed in
    her ear is Crazy Wisdom.
    Crazy Wisdom’s Jude’s Magic. has a nice
    ring
    to it? yes?

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  6. Valerianna Avatar

    Love the nose markings… beautiful. Congratulations, Caroline! (and Grace!)

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  7. jude Avatar

    she is so beautiful.

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  8. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    should tell us something about Beauty and utility.
    there is room for both and both touches our hearts.

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  9. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    congratulations Caroline, yes. nothing, then one
    earth rattling Bleah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…dogs and i ran out…
    and two hooves and a nose. the rest, frosting on her cake.

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  10. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    her markings are amazing. in total BALANCE. all of
    them. not common.

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  11. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes. this is Caroline’s first time. no comotion, no
    hesitation. everything good. she knows about
    Just Going.

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  12. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    i think Caroline must have. she reminds me of that
    got milk? commercial

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  13. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    and yes. for sure now. i wanted to be sure, since i made an
    error in my excitement last time.
    But yes. a doeling.
    so she is claimed.
    done
    Jude’s Magic.

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  14. elizabeth fortes Avatar
    elizabeth fortes

    Such a beauty! Exquisite! And already much loved!
    e.

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  15. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    love at first sight

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  16. nance Avatar

    hey…? this just happened this afternoon? she looks so beautiful… but not what i would have thought a tiny baby goat would look like. she’s bigger than i imagined. but sooo adorable. i would claim her too. you must be so proud of carline. and i guess you know that they could give birth without you being there… like if you were out for the day for example. i am a complete novice in knowing any of this… i am so proud to have a friend who can have goats!!! bless your heart!

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  17. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes. this afternoon. she’s average size. just
    regular, that way.
    they could, but the Everyone Elses being such busy bodies…trying to see, trying to watch and the little ones wanting to get in the middle of it all. so, yes.
    she could have done without a midwife. but it was
    easier this way. crowd control was my job.
    she chose under the shelf in Fiona’s Palace for her spot.
    the tightest possible place. also meant that the babies
    could hop easily up onto the shelf and ricochet around
    over head. Bless Us All ~

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  18. Deb Avatar

    a Sandpiper!

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  19. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes! she does! i was thinking like some kind of
    gazelle, too. actually an oryx….but
    or a kabuki dancer

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  20. Henrietta (aka ani or zani) Avatar

    what is the ninas name to be?

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  21. Wendy Avatar

    Magnificent; the perfection of her marks actually makes me think of some jewel-like beetle, but also my favorite little woodpeckers. Everything is so beautiful there Grace. Thanks for sharing all this.

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  22. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    as above, Jude’s Magic.
    really, this should be left to daughter Jenny. that’s
    why the first little doe has no name yet. it’s her
    herd. BUT
    this one. everything about her i love. she looks like
    a pencil drawing to me.
    could have named her Graphite
    or even, just Pencil.
    the grandkids had baby chickens when they were little,
    and named one Pencil and another Lightbulb. so…i guess
    it could be Pencil.
    BUT
    no. Jude’s Magic. marks a point in Time for me. no
    matter how it goes, i’ll keep her as a herd doe.

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  23. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    jewel like beetle…yes. so many beetles there that are so
    exquisite. Beetle. nice name…. there’s more to come, you know…

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  24. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    actually, Jenny likes more uhhhhh, regular names. TenZen
    is the only one i got to name so far and that was after
    the Dalai Lama…his name Tenzin…she changed it even
    then some. so…
    but i am taking Liberties here. she owes me.

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  25. Henrietta (aka ani or zani) Avatar

    even if she gets another name – she will at heart be Judes Magic to you…

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  26. Deb Avatar

    Kabuki would be grand name!

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  27. Susan C Avatar

    AWwwww!!! all around. We love her – the boys noticed her markings right away. Her symmetry, her ears and her little black jacket.

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  28. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes and she has diamonds on both ankles…..

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  29. Nancy Avatar

    Magic is right! Congratulations Mamas! She is stunning, breath-taking really. SO Glad I didn’t miss this post after being gone all day…so so glad 🙂

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  30. saskia Avatar

    Congratulations! they look peaceful and beautiful together, sasx

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  31. ;uie Avatar
    ;uie

    Coming here this morning after being gone all afternoon yesterday and thunderstorms last night so I wasn’t on the laptop. This is such a magical joyful sight to see, this otherworldly little goat and her beautiful Mama. I know very little about goats but feel such a closeness, kinship to all of this. Comes from my beloved father who came to this country as a contract shepherd from Spain. And now at last you have claimed this little one by naming her and a more fitting name I don’t think can be found. And why not because your life has intersected from land keeping to cloth keeping to goat keeping and it is all one…

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  32. Robyn Ayaz Avatar
    Robyn Ayaz

    Grace, this little one is SOOO beautiful!!! I can see why you fell in love with her and the name is just right. It must be amazing to see all this life rising up right there in your own yard, a microcosm of LIFE and you are in it up to your elbows. How easily they give birth, how naturally – we humans are really an oddity when you think about it. And there’s the thing, we have to overthink everything. Give me slow cloth, slow living. Hugs.

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  33. KaiteM. Avatar

    Wrap her up and post her to me, she’s soooooo beautiful esp as i love black and white animals.

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  34. Rene' Avatar
    Rene’

    AH. . .In this case, it is good to be “owed” yes?
    Just beautiful! A spirit girl, for certain – and for you. Magic is truly afoot!! What an amazing reminder you now have – (another one) – every day – and difficult to ignore!!

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  35. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    EEE you’re back!…yes. Magic afoot. was just out there
    to feed and she is BIZZY. hard to be a single, you
    have to develop a really good imagination. she’s working
    on it.
    and yes. she owes me a Naming. but…for the named,
    well, we’ll still see how it all plays out.

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  36. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    just out sitting with her and she’s more of an off white,
    maybe like old linen. could name her that, Old Linen.

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  37. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    it’s how i had my babies. if i would not have had to
    RAISE them, i would have happily been pregnant and given
    birth a million times. i loved it.

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  38. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    she really is otherworldly. the perfection of her
    markings is amazing…
    Keeping. interesting word, interesting phenomenon.

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  39. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    All is well out there this morning. bouncing kid and
    hungry ma. as it should be.

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  40. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes. i glad you saw it too. did you see that i
    enjoyed the Sendak Post? maybe one of them will need
    to be named Maurice….there’s enough more to come still.

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  41. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes…i thought of the name Karma…but that would be
    too karmic.
    your Karma…yes. your beloved Karma

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  42. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes…or Antelope

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  43. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    nance…it clicked in the middle of the night…the ones
    that i said were the size of coke cans were Snowbunny’s
    3. Snowbunny has really teeny babies. that was
    Iko, Iko iko, and Onday. they catch up, but when born
    she’s always had teenys. maybe this time too?

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  44. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    sitting, looking at her this morning, it’s like she’s
    had a Walnut dip. the subtlty of her coloring is
    stunning. she looks like a Silverback Gorilla from
    the top

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  45. Doris Avatar

    Beautiful little one, but I love the mother too. She seems to be proud of her baby. Isnt it a miracle how perfect she looks?

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  46. Nancy Avatar

    Yes, Grace I did see your comment (commented back too). I think Maurice would be a fine name. And maybe it is a ‘regular’ enough name for Jenny too!

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  47. Mo Crow Avatar

    Please make some quick sketches pencil on paper or scratched in the sand if need be (but photographed) of the magic days with this little one Grace, she’s a wonder!

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  48. pam Avatar

    She is beautiful! I love your blog.

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  49. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    again…the second first time mother being Great. this
    is really good. some are not. both of these two
    could not be better.
    just now, i looked and looked…but there really IS
    perfect symetry with the markings. how amazing. a
    miracle. yes.
    AND JUST WAS OVER TO SEW to see there that you have a
    BLOG!!!!!!!!!OH, eeeEEEEE!! yes!

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  50. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    mO…WE’LL see…..

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  51. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    pam…Hello!……….i’m glad you are Here!!!!!
    you will see a lot of her…i’m sure.

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  52. Deb G Avatar

    Hello baby! I’d have claimed her too Grace. Goats…sigh.

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  53. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    sigh, yes. so after the first blush of LOVE yesterday, i am
    being more pragmatic today. back to that weighing of pros and
    cons. “The bigger the front, the bigger the back”….
    we’ll see.

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  54. ali Avatar

    Awwww–amazing face!

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  55. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    the diamonds on her ankles too….
    she’s hard to believe.

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  56. Robyn Ayaz Avatar
    Robyn Ayaz

    After another disagreement between my two girls I am inclined to agree with you – the raising bit anyway. Pregnancy and childbirth were not fun for me but I had a friend who, like you, loved the whole childbearing thing.

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  57. Ayn Hanna Avatar

    Wonderful! And Congratulations – Thanks for sharing this beautiful magic.

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