Great holidays! So what's next?

What a “winter whirlwind”!  The Christmas season of 2010 sure was a blast.  Between all the “get-togethers” and festivities and the holiday orders… let’s just say we’ve been, as you probably were too, very busy.  But, finally, the shipments have been shipped, the gifts have been opened and the rush of the holiday is over, as we venture into the white, quiet, calm and cozy doldrums of winter. 

But, wait a minute… what is that marked on the calendar?  Could it be more impending excitement embedded in this peaceful time of the year? 

Yes.   There is a circled date on the page of the next month.  It is February 9^th. 

You may have an idea as to why that day is important.  It is vitally important to us in that it marks a new flurry of activity here at the Beekman.  And it is… Baby Goat Season! 

That is the day it all begins when our first two expectant goat mothers give birth.  Of course, Mother Nature could decide not to abide by the calendar, but it does give us a target date to make sure to “ready the barn” and prepare our Beekman winter wonderland for countless little hooved ones. 

To give you an idea of the magnitude of this upcoming birthing and milk season, John last year was milking 60 goats.  This year, he’s going to try 110!  His father, Harold, and I will be greatly assisting him much more as a result, which brings me to another bit of important information relating to you.  Since we are inevitably going to be so preoccupied with the animals needs, we have reluctantly decided to slow down on production of our standard items in the farmerjohnandjason store for a bit.  We simply won’t have the time we did throughout the fall.  Not for a little while, anyway. 

This is, after all, the section of year when the days start for us at 2:00am and, much later that evening, end at 9:00 pm!  Oh, we’ll have some time for sleeping and eating in between, but the point is our schedules will be radically different.   Just not much time for sculpting, painting or crocheting.

So, what will farmerjohnandjason.com offer in the next few months through this nursery season?

Well, we’ve been talking with Shirley, John’s sister, who said she’d like to create some new products for the store.  Also, our blogging will continue.  We'll also have updates on the babies.  And, something else will be arriving soon too – involving entertainment for families!  See, each of us here at the Beekman are all excited about the interest in the show from parents and kids, all over the country.  The animals of course seem to appeal greatly to the youngest viewers.  Therefore, I decided to begin developing an entertainment project based on our famous Beekman animals specifically for families.  It will involve specially designed puppets, effects and stories about our animals and will amount to a DVD that will be able to be purchased on our farmerjohnandjason.com website.  It’s still in progress, so I don’t have many details to share yet, but I’ll keep you posted as it develops and reveal its release date in the near future.  

So some exciting change is in the cool, arctic wind.  We’ll keep you “in the know” to any new and additional ideas we may get.  In the meantime, I truly hope everyone had a magical Holiday and you can enjoy the winter as much as you can, for as brief of a time that it is here.  It’ll fly by and before you know it, the springtime flowers and buds will be blooming again!

Till then, bundle up and stay warm!