05/21/2026
Let’s talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly of homesteading and animals. ❤️🩹
Last night, through absolutely no fault of her own, Ms. Pixie happily let herself out of an open gate after the goats managed to pop the clip off. 🙃 She decided to take herself on a little field trip across the road into the huge field next door.
She hasn’t been with us very long yet and usually comes right in from her smaller pasture for grain, so when I called for her, she didn’t come bouncing up to me the way our other animals do just yet.
Thank God for kind strangers and good people still out there. One passerby stopped to help, and another happened to be a cattle owner himself and helped us safely get her back where she belonged.
At one point I managed to get ahold of her halter, but she took off with my hand stuck in it. The result? One broken finger and a possible central slip injury to my middle finger. 😅
But at the end of the day… everyone is safe, and bones heal.
Homesteading isn’t always the picture-perfect moments with baby animals and sunsets. Sometimes it’s chaos, adrenaline, tears, pain, and learning lessons the hard way. But we still show up for them every single day because we love them that much.
Now I’m praying my finger heals without surgery and hoping sweet Pixie isn’t too traumatized to still trust and love me one day. 🐮
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