Random Farm Stuff

Clyde says hello!

How could a body not love that sweet donkey face!?!?!

WE are having a hot spell.The weather had cooled off some,we were having 80's but the last couple of days it has been in the 90's.Phooey!Me and The Boy hate the heat!Mother Nature always teases us with the season changes,she gives us a taste of things to come and WHAM back to the heat.Of course 90 is about 15 degrees cooler than what we had this summer.

The pasture was nothing but brown,burnt up stubble all summer.We finally started getting cooler temps and rain and now look at it.Sigh...beautiful.

Yesterday evening while we were doing the chores this guy flew over.

I love these things!Where we uses to live someone had one and flew over our place all the time.You can get kits and build these things.I asked Hubby to build me one but he said no way! I love flying,maybe The Boy gets that from me,he is determined to be a pilot.


We went to one of the bigger towns today to look for something to go on the edges of the tin roof on the goat house.The crazy critters have been in there since they were babies and never climbed on the roof.Now,all of a sudden,they can't stay off of it!Butter Bean nicked his leg this morning,sent The Boy in to a panic.He takes his animal care seriously!It is a nice drive.

We go past the dam.They had all but one gate open!This is wonderful,means we're catching up on the rain we missed this summer!


The Bourbon Reds are growing!They have plenty of room in their tractor,but they are big enough to start going out and foraging.I need to start fencing an area for them soon.I just love the color of these turkeys!


We had great sky yesterday.Don't those clouds look like Fall?I love sky pictures,maybe it goes with that love of flying.

They made a beautiful sunset too.

Butter Bean

This is Butter Bean.He is The Boy's pygmy goat.We raised him and his "sister" Nibbles as bottle babies in the house. I know some of you are going eewww right now! Goat poop all over the house ! Put down the phone,don't call the board of health. I know you may find it hard to believe (Insert drum roll )but they were litter box trained.Yes ,I know they said it couldn't be done.When they said that, they were talking about normal people.We are definitely not normal people!Actually,all we did was get one of those under the bed plastic storage boxes and fill it with hay and when they needed to potty they would go to the box and do their business.Of course they also ate the hay they were using as a toilette,they are goats after all ! The Goaty Goats, as we refer to them,lived indoors with us for several months until they decided to climb every mountain and by mountain I mean my furniture .Now butter bean sits in his throne or worn out old lawn chair ,however you want to look at it, and keeps and eye on his yard to make sure those lesser animals like chickens and ducks stay away from his domain.If the chair should fall over, usually because his sister knocks it over, he will complain loudly until we get tired of listening to him and go sit it back up. I think it is hilarious that one day The Boy will tell my grandchildren"Do you know when I was little we had pet goats in the house ?" That is my hillbilly upbringin' coming out !The Boy says it is the lack of opposable thumbs that keep goats from ruling the world !