Michael has been taking care of opening the barn in the mornings. It helps me to not have to rush getting everything done before I wake the boys up at 7:30. I miss seeing the animals each morning though. I went out in the afternoon to visit the chicks and the goats. Apparently Brown Sugar […]
Just Stuff
Hi there. I thought I might share a few pictures. Just fun stuff being out here in the country. This is a fort the boys have been building. The positioning of the three trees made a great spot for the fort. It is at the edge of the upper pasture and overlooks the lower acreage. […]
Creating Dry Lots for the Goats
The goats live in the barn. Both the girl’s stall and the boy’s stall have doors to outside pens. It allows them to go out and get some sunshine and have a little room to move around. Now that the rain is here we decided to “dry lot” those outside pens. What that means is […]
A New Experience (AKA: Wow, I Never Real...
Let’s just back up a bit. I feel I need to remind all of you that we have DAIRY goats. Meaning we want them to produce milk. Well, in order to make milk they need to have at least one baby. With goats (maybe other animals too) we call it “freshening”. In order to have […]
Animals, Shop, Garden and a Little Fun
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 […]
My Mornings
Well, it is no longer light at 5:00 am and it certainly isn’t as warm/dry. But other than that my mornings are just about the same. Seven.days.a.week. I wake up somewhere between 5:00 and 5:30. After the usual shower and getting dressed I sit down in the “sun room” (can it really be called a […]
New Happenings Over the Weekend
Hi there, We had some fun stuff going on over the weekend. We decided that the chicks were big enough to roam the coop. We put them in the wire enclosed outside portion of their chicken coop while Joshua and Nicholas spread the pine shavings on the floor inside the coop and set up the […]
Various Things
Well it is Friday and time to focus on chores. Over the past ten days or so I have snapped a few pictures of some things that have interested me. Here they are… One day I went outside and happened to look down at our door mat that is just before you step up to […]
What’s Up
Hello everyone, I can’t believe it has been a week since my last post. I can believe I haven’t had any time to write a post. The last I reported we were headed to the beach to celebrate me and Joshua’s birthday. Do you think the boys had fun? You wouldn’t have guessed by this […]
An Even Dozen
Buchanan Cellars called this morning to tell us that they received more Astralorp chicks and if we wanted more we could come by and get them. Here are our two new chicks. I’ve started calling the one on the left “precious”. She is just so cute! Our new chicks are exactly one week younger than […]
Chicks Rule
Finally. After nearly 15 years I am not the only female. Three months after getting married Michael and I brought home the most adorable BOY Beagle puppy. From then on every living thing added to our home has been a male. Moving to the farm added yet another male with the addition of Luke. I […]
The Good the Bad and the Downright Frigh...
There is a dark side to living in the country. No, it isn’t people turning old toilets into planters. It isn’t even the library that is smaller than my laundry room. It is the critters that live side by side with you and you don’t even know they are there until you run smack into […]