Excused abscence

admin | August 5, 2010

Wow, it has been a crazy week and a half. A week ago Monday I came down with what I thought was a stomach bug. By Wednesday I was still unable to hold anything down so my family took me to the emergency room, if for no other reason than to get some [...]

View from the porch

admin | July 14, 2010

We are trying to put some final touches on the place before the big shindig. Quinn just had his 55th Birthday so we are celebrating his oldness on Saturday. If you are in town you can share in the festivities anytime after 2pm. Please bring a dish to share and [...]

Busy bee

admin | July 9, 2010

Today I had a “day off”. I did not have any dogs scheduled so I enlisted the boys to help me with blackberry picking. We came up with a deal and I paid them in Wii time. For the most part they were a big help. After all the berries were [...]

Amy, the barn cat.

admin | July 2, 2010

We are keeping a new cat in the barn. She is very sweet. Her name is Amy and we got her from a friend who needed to find a new home for her. I caught her today sunning herself in the barn.
Later I found her in a bunch of hay [...]

June is over!

admin | July 1, 2010

Wow! What a wild and crazy month it was. I will recap for you:
Samuel went to 4-H camp and then on a mission trip called Fish Camp. All in one week we had Vacation Bible School, my sister-in-law and niece from Dallas visiting, and mid-week my parents came and [...]

Farm Life

admin | June 9, 2010

It has been a wild couple of days. We had chicks born this am. When I went out to the barn tonight to milk I noticed a different mother hen on the ground with a chick. I think it is the chick that is seen here.
It is this Momma hen who is [...]

Babies!

admin | May 30, 2010

Stitches had her babies this afternoon! Momma and bucklings are doing well. Stitches gave me no sign that she was ready to have those babies this morning. We went off to church and when I came home there they were! I am kind of bummed I wasn’t with her when she [...]

The waiting continues

admin | May 29, 2010

This is my goat Stitches. She was due to kid on the 27th. Today is the 29th! She is in no hurry to have these babies. In fact I think she enjoys the fact at my stress level increases with every hour.
See how she is toying with me. She is [...]

Who’s that Lady?!

admin | May 13, 2010

We just picked her up today. She is my new Livestock Guardian Dog (LGD). The things we know about her….she is a working dog to protect goats, and she will test fences. She is 7 months old and loves to be on the front porch.
What we don’t know about her….she has never [...]

Hummers are back!

admin | May 6, 2010

Last year we had close to 20 pairs of hummingbirds coming to the feeder. I finally saw my first hummingbird the day after all the rain so I quickly made some nectar and cleaned the feeder. Unfortunately I put it in the dishwasher and forgot to turn the heat dry cycle off. [...]