La Leche

Well Lucy and Ethel are back at it. Make sure you read the previous post before this one.

We are now in Andalucia, Southern Spain in the province of Málaga. Our new home is in Alpandeire and we are working with animals. After only two days the owners left us to milk goats by ourselves.What confidence! When we walked in the first day, Syl´s first comment was the "Simple Life" but you should see her now she can handle four at once

So Lucy and Ethel were down in the pit with the utter suckers while Fred (Mateo) went into the barn to wrestle up the goats. 400 of them. Sometimes he would be in the barn with the door closed then the door would come flying open and Mateo would come storming from one end of the room to the other trying to get the baby´s and keep the males out. We almost milked a male as Mateo tried to hustle him into the stall but Francisco hollered "huevos" so we let him go. Luckily we´re not milking by hand but have you ever tried to attach anything to a goat. We get kicked quite often and the goats scream when they don´t want to come into the milking room. Our clothes are filthy when we leave but we get quite a bit of goat milk.

The pueblo is great and the family we are living with are equally wonderful. For the next couple of weeks we should get pretty good with goats.

Joronda