I thought you might enjoy some pictures of the animals.
The chicks sure have grown a lot.
The Barred Rock chickens are very sociable. Our chicken coop has a door that leads out to an enclosed pen. I think that the Ameraucana chicken’s head looks like an eagle. The Australorp are the all black ones. I like the shape of their bodies. They liked my ring and kept pecking at it.
Here are our geese.
They had been getting out by squeezing through our fence by the orchard. They would end up at various neighbors houses as well as the orchard. They love the fallen apples. Michael and the boys fixed the fence so now they stick within our boundaries.
The goats have been inside more since the rain began. Nigerian Dwarf Goats originally came from the area near the equator. They like warm, dry climates. They don’t like rain. I am in complete agreement with them. I should have been born in an equatorial country that has siestas.
Michael has done a lot to the inside of his shop.
Added shelves.
Added peg board for his tools.
He gave some space to the boys as well.
One of the biggest reason for a shop was to have more space to work on our vehicles. Here is my car getting some work done. Look at all that space around the car.
Our garden is starting to dwindle. We are still picking ripe tomatoes. With the rain we are finding a lot of split ones to give to the chickens. Amazingly, the zucchini is also still producing. Finally the winter squash plants are beginning to die back. Once it has died back completely we will harvest all of it.
Last but not least here is how my guys have fun when the chores are done.
Airsoft wars. They really get into their play time.
I hope you all had a great weekend.
Love,
Karen
Karen,
That is amazing!!! Boy the chickens have sure grown and your really getting a lot done to the place before winter. Looking really good!!!
Enjoy the weekend,
Joy Giancone
As always, I end with a smile, soft giggle. My 3 boys you are so amazing in your gear. Yes, Karen has 3 boys. Michael is such a boy at heart. Praise God!
Karen, I just got off the phone with Pinky. She and Ginny watch your blog and love it and find it so interesting and helps them to connect to family up hear.
I see Joy is watching it. Hi, Joy.
Love, Karren, Mom and Grandma
I am such a word person. Especially in this age of not caring how things are spelled, not knowing how things are spelled, using text to shorten words and losing the way to know how to spell the word.
I said hear. I meant here.
Hi Grandma Karren!!! Yes I am following this wonderful blog!! I find it so interesting and at the same time familiar because I was raised on a farm growing up and I sure wish I live on one again!! Your Son is so fortunate and Blessed by God to have a farm so beautiful!!! How are you doing?
Praying for you and we sure miss you at Bible Study!!!
Love ya,
Joy
Oh, Joy!! (Your name gats me to praise God and say happiness to you all in one word!!) How good to see you HERE(not HEAR-smile). I knew you would be blessed by Karen’s blog because of your heritage. You bless us all by being here and being part of us. Remember. We have a plan for a trip to Espalin Heaven in Amity. Spring will be a good time. Thank you so much for missing me at Bible Study and praying for me. You are such a good sister-friend- in Christ.
Fall has come. I love it. The rains God gives us are so Peaceful to me and today His weather that He has given us is giving me profound Peace. The rain is pouring down abundantly. No wind, just soothing rain. And huge hail stones. Thunder. I thought “This is God’s ALL-powerful voice…hope His voice does not become too strong by giving me wind. Wind is not Peaceful for me. It stirs up unPeacefulness in me”. Yes, I am a “died in the wool” Oregonian…weather-wise only.
How am I? I am good. Our life is good. Now to some, that would mean we are traveling to Europe, BUSY, have lots of money, lots of energy, know all the right people(Oh, we do know the right people, our humble family and friends) but they are not reading this blog, probably. So, I am preaching to the choir, and know that life gives all of us challenges. With JESUS CHRIST our SAVIOUR we live life abundantly in all situations and life is the good, the bad and the ugly in Him. So is there anyone out there who has the question “Why do we have to go thru this?”. That is an excellent question. Search for the answer. Ask someone you trust or read Christian books.
Oh, how I do get on my monologue and, again, I am preaching to the choir.
Karen, thank you for this wonderful blog!! I can already see how God will use this to thread lives together!!!!!!!!PRAISE GOD AND WE WANT TO GLORIFY YOU WITH OUR LIVES . I believe He is accomplishing your goal of sharing your wonderful family life of the earth that we all miss or never even knew and encourage a dream that could come true. I wrote more. Let’s see if it prints.
Hi, Janelle!!
Grandma Karen,
Thank you, and Spring sounds good to me. I will look forward to that visit to The Beautiful Farm!!
Love ya,
Joy