Ranch Shekinah

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If your looking for the perfect pet…..

This is “Joseph”

He’s quiet, calm, and affectionate

He’s better than a doll,  dog, cat, or bunny

He poses for pictures, sits on your lap, will follow you everywhere, and

makes everyone smile

He loves to snuggle, and even gives kisses!

Our Pet Lamb, Joseph

Even Grandma loves him!

Pet Lambs are better than dogs or cats

They don’t bark or get excited. A lamb just wants to be loved and to sit by

your side (or on your lap).

After a Bath and Wrapped in His Towel

We recently celebrated Passover in our home. It was a very unique evening and I had desired to write a post about it. However, my daughter beat me to it, and when I read her journal of this special evening, I felt there was no way I could articulate it any better!

Go Here to Read About Our Most Unique Passover Dinner, through the lens of my daughter, Rachel.~

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One of our highlights at Ranch Shekinah is the birthing of new babies. Whether it is the horses, the sheep, the goats, or even just picking up baby chickens from the post office or the local feed store, it’s always an exciting event when we welcome new babies into our world.

Last year, one of our goats, Shalom, gave birth on a very cold evening. One of my children went out to put the goats in the barn, not realizing that Shalom had given birth. He called for them, they came running, and off they went to the barn for the night. The next morning, when we went back to the barn to let them out to pasture, we could tell that Shalom had given birth, but there was no baby to be found. We panicked. What happened to the baby? Did a raccoon climb in the stall? Did the baby escape from under the door and is in this barn somewhere? We had waited for a long time for this big event, and now, we could not find the baby!

It was suggested that maybe the baby was born the night before and had been left out overnight. The children ran to the pastures. All of our hearts were racing and  pounding. The first one there came running back, exclaiming that he found the baby, and that he was o.k.!  We all ran, and there in the snow, was a little baby goat. He had survived all night in the freezing weather, with no shelter, no mom to nurse from, he hadn’t even been completely cleaned up from the birthing.  In spite of all this, he was in perfect health, and with perfect confirmation. We named him Gabriel, for surely an angel had watched over him all night.

This year, Shalom and Jerusalem, became pregnant again. We waited with eager anticipation for the new babies to arrive. It was on a Sabbath afternoon, and out of the kitchen window, Rachel heard a little cry. She ran outside, with everyone trailing behind her. This time, the birthing was on a warm, sunny afternoon – and to our surprise, she had two white twins!

It was one more memory made here at Ranch Shekinah – another birth in which to celebrate life!