A Horse, a Sheep, and a Goat

 

 Over the weekend, my hard-working farm boy finally finished our new goat yard. We've been working on it for a few weeks, but the heat has been so oppressive it's been slow going. The new residents, Goober the goat and Hero the sheep, love their new home. Spirit is a little jealous, but she's not allowed around the smaller animals. She tolerates Goober, but everyone else she tries to kill. She even chases the chickens out of her yard, stamping her front feet at them as she runs. We've been having a problem with this one coyote coming around, and we've actually witnessed Spirit chasing the coyote out of her pasture. She's a great guard horse, no need for a donkey, we just have to be careful with her and the smaller animals.

She's so curious, always has to check everything out.

Isn't she pretty? I just love her.

 On a different note, I made my first sale on Etsy today! I'm so excited! It makes me feel really good knowing that someone liked something that I made enough to buy it, I'm so flattered. I've been working on a lot of new stuff for the store that I'm really excited about, too. Last night I was up until 2am finishing this guy up...

Sharktastic! Tooth from a sand tiger shark.

I'm pretty proud of it, if I do say so myself ;). I may keep this particular one, but I'm definitely going to be making more for the shop. I gathered the teeth myself from the bottom of the shark tank at SeaWorld, back when I was a diver for their aquarium. We would spend 4 hours a week in the shark exhibit, vacuuming up shark poo and scrubbing fake coral. We wore normal SCUBA gear, the only protection we had from the sharks was a 3ft pole shaped like a T, made from 3/4" pvc pipe. It wasn't really any protection at all, definitely not going to stop a shark, but we used them to gently nudge the sharks away if they swam too close. During those countless hours on poo-duty (ha), every time I saw a stray tooth I would tuck it away in my wetsuit and vacuum on. I gave most of these teeth away, however I do still have a small collection left. I think making jewelry with them is a great way to use them, I'm going to have a hard time deciding what to keep and what to sell, though!