Goats and chickens and the sweetest donkey ever.

Sam and I had a lovely weekend staying at a little farm on Whidbey Island.

We met Velvet,

sweet jenny

a very sweet jenny(female donkey), a bunch of buttheaded goats, chickens, ducks, an overwhelmingly enthusiastic young german shepherd named Savannah and a sweet kitty whose loft-leaping prowess has been sharpened to ninja-worthy extremes by Savannah’s ebullience.

Many thanks to Ginger, Delayney and Caden for sharing their beautiful place with us. It’s a gorgeous cabin and the loft was very cozy and happily for Sam, the dog could not climb ladders. :) Sam and Caden had a ton of fun bouncing madly on the giant trampoline out back.

Whidbey is beautiful too. We browsed the Langley galleries with their gorgeous bronze animals, awesome carved wood thrones and glass menageries and spent long, luscious afternoons on the beaches.

I made a sand dreamer

sandreamer

and Sam and I created a fort with three entrances and three bridges to reach the tunnels in the outer walls..

fortress

Beware the catapults of doom!

‘Twere a loverly weekend, capped off with a waffle(to the joy of my waffle-crazy boy) brunch in Langley on our way home.

Not so lovely to come home to clouds of flies hiding out in my eyrie and corpses all over the kitchen! Apparently Sophie waged war against the midges while we were gone and the ones that didn’t get bombed to death all flew upstairs. Gack.

More pics here. Of the trip, not the fly massacre.

:)

2 Responses to “Goats and chickens and the sweetest donkey ever.”

  1. Atiron Says:

    Lovely pictures. Looks like you had a most splendid time!

  2. Zan Says:

    It was that, thanks.

    Though we could have used your squid battle prowess to combat the battalions of sand fleas. :)

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