Wulfgar's SCA Life!

Oh not much, just helping build a goat farm with my partner.

And guess what happened?

We have kids on ground! I repeat, we have kids on ground!

Everyone, meet Viktor! The first buckling of Black Dog Livestock LLC!

He was born at 2:00 MST on 1/26/2026. His mom, Nora, is just amazing. There were no complications, and he was up and moving a half hour after birth.

The birth was fine, momma and buckling are both healthy, the issue is the doe's ability to produce milk. Hence me being up at 3:30am to check on the kid.

He was laying away from his mom and shivering, not great signs. I grabbed the doe to check her for milk and she is bone dry.

We now have a bottle baby! If we can get him to take a bottle, if worse comes to worse, we have a doe who had a stillborn. We will put her in a milking stand and let the buckling drink from her.

On top of that, another doe gave birth yesterday at around 1:00pm to a set of twins! They have been named Willy and Dilly. Willy is a buckling and Dilly is a doe!

Willy is the one behind mom, and Dilly is the one laying down.

Let's see...

Since Bulky was born, we have had 14 kids been born! Ten of those kids were born as 5 sets of twins in the last 4 days. Three of them were in one day.

As of right now, in total, we have 22 surviving kids and 5 who have passed for various reasons. The losses are upsetting, but we are so happy to have more kids then we even expected. We have essentially doubled our herd numbers this kidding season.

And there is one more doe due this month, and about 5 more who were unfortunately bred after the big breeder buck broke into the doe pen. They will give birth sporadically until August.

also apparently this rock art dates across multiple periods spanning thousands of years? but i couldn't find much detail on that so i can't give specifics

but yeah, this isn't just a memory of giraffes, but of giraffes now absent encountered by people just 2000 years (the difference between the late roman republic and today) out of the ice age, in a climate unfamiliar to any of the hundred billion people born since the desertification of the sahara drove the ancient egyptians to the nile, near the start of the agricultural revolution

the time between this and the birth of the sahara was nearly as long as the time between the birth of the sahara and now, in which all recorded history is contained, and all languages we can recognise at all - the language and culture of these people would be totally alien to current libyans, twice the difference between the oldest european language and english, predating all but libya's mountains!

If you want to learn more about how parchment was made, there's a nice blog post about modern-day parchmenters here:

University of Nottingham has a brief overview of medieval manuscript materials here:

Getty also has a brief overview of how medieval books were made here:

"get a second job"

"start your own garden"

"stop buying name brand"

"don't get your nails done"

"learn to budget"

"live within your means"

Oh not much, just helping build a goat farm with my partner.

And guess what happened?

We have kids on ground! I repeat, we have kids on ground!

Everyone, meet Viktor! The first buckling of Black Dog Livestock LLC!

He was born at 2:00 MST on 1/26/2026. His mom, Nora, is just amazing. There were no complications, and he was up and moving a half hour after birth.

The birth was fine, momma and buckling are both healthy, the issue is the doe's ability to produce milk. Hence me being up at 3:30am to check on the kid.

He was laying away from his mom and shivering, not great signs. I grabbed the doe to check her for milk and she is bone dry.

We now have a bottle baby! If we can get him to take a bottle, if worse comes to worse, we have a doe who had a stillborn. We will put her in a milking stand and let the buckling drink from her.

On top of that, another doe gave birth yesterday at around 1:00pm to a set of twins! They have been named Willy and Dilly. Willy is a buckling and Dilly is a doe!

Willy is the one behind mom, and Dilly is the one laying down.

Oh not much, just helping build a goat farm with my partner.

And guess what happened?

We have kids on ground! I repeat, we have kids on ground!

Everyone, meet Viktor! The first buckling of Black Dog Livestock LLC!

He was born at 2:00 MST on 1/26/2026. His mom, Nora, is just amazing. There were no complications, and he was up and moving a half hour after birth.

The birth was fine, momma and buckling are both healthy, the issue is the doe's ability to produce milk. Hence me being up at 3:30am to check on the kid.

He was laying away from his mom and shivering, not great signs. I grabbed the doe to check her for milk and she is bone dry.

We now have a bottle baby! If we can get him to take a bottle, if worse comes to worse, we have a doe who had a stillborn. We will put her in a milking stand and let the buckling drink from her.

On top of that, another doe gave birth yesterday at around 1:00pm to a set of twins! They have been named Willy and Dilly. Willy is a buckling and Dilly is a doe!

Willy is the one behind mom, and Dilly is the one laying down.

ᏌᎵᎫᎩ - Saligug - Sah-lee-goog

Snapping turtle

Cherokee double wall turtle basket, gauge 2 Commercial Round Reed