I wanted to shout out a big 'ole thank you to Broken Teepee.I won a giant custom made sticker from one of her many contest and it came in the mail today.Of course The Boy insisted it be of Butter Bean,and really how could I refuse!It turned out great.
If you are a contest junkie,I know I am,you should go over and check it out because she is always got at least one going,sometimes 2 or 3!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Hubby is Home and The Boy's Reading Habits
We picked up Hubby from the airport last night.We always leave early to shop,because we don't make it to the big city too often.Our shopping usually consist of buying things that will keep us from returning to the city for a while,because there is a reason we live in the middle of nowhere,we hate the city!We go to Tuesday Mornings,Half Price Books,and some sort of craft store.The craft store is for me,yarn,fabric and the like.Tuesday mornings is for both of us, a discount treasure hunt! Half Price Books is for The Boy.These are the books he got.
And these..
These will last him about 2 months.Yes, we have TV and video games.He still reads this much,and no,I didn't make him get these books!They are his own choices.Why the child practically teaches himself!He selected one more,about the Vietnam War,but Hubby will have to read it first to make sure it is young boy appropriate.Hubby looked at some of the other books and shook his head,said he was glad he didn't have to read them!
Before you see the next picture,no we don't live atop a nuclear waste dump.Weenie's eyes are just glowing because she is happy Hubby is home,as we all are.Yes,we are!
And these..
These will last him about 2 months.Yes, we have TV and video games.He still reads this much,and no,I didn't make him get these books!They are his own choices.Why the child practically teaches himself!He selected one more,about the Vietnam War,but Hubby will have to read it first to make sure it is young boy appropriate.Hubby looked at some of the other books and shook his head,said he was glad he didn't have to read them!
Before you see the next picture,no we don't live atop a nuclear waste dump.Weenie's eyes are just glowing because she is happy Hubby is home,as we all are.Yes,we are!
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Strange Small Town Facts an Other Ramblings
Sorry I have missed a few days in posting.Bad blogger,bad!I found out and interesting fact about our little town today.In front of our church there is an historical marker.I walk by it every Sunday and have never noticed it.This is extremely odd in the fact that we will drive 35 miles out of our way to read one of these just to find out some obscure person in history camped at that spot one night a hundred years ago.Yep,we are that cool! Anyway, The Boy asked had I ever read it,I hadn't,but preceded to skim over it as not to be late for the very important pre-Sunday school talkin'.In my skimming I discovered the original name for our little community was Coonskin. Yes, you read right,Coonskin.Personally I think they should have kept it.I mean really, how funny would it be to tell folks,"Yep,I live in Coonskin,Texas."Now,I guess considering how many of the varmints we have around here it could be a fittin' name.We have a sort of road across our pasture that goes from the driveway to the little pond.
You can go walk along it and judging by the tracks it is the 'coon super highway!Big ones,little ones,mommas and babies.This is not the best track picture,their tracks look like little hands.
It is no wonder those mentally deficient dogs of Hubby's bark all freaking night long....all night long.Oh,I said that all ready.
Hubby comes home tomorrow,yeah!That will perk up the blog post,we are always super busy when he is home.So for tonight I will just post some random farm picts.Oh, Guinness one of the new goats got bronchitis and had to have a visit to the vet.She is taking her medicine and good doses of probiotics and seems to be on the mend. Nibbles had this once, very persistently,but a change in feed was the answer for her.
Here is some purple basil.I mostly just grow it because it is pretty.
Our sky today,beautiful.
This is Earnest,our sassy little bannie rooster.
Elvis,the king rooster,takin' care of his ladies!
Guineas doing who knows what on the roof the coop. I really like them,but they are slightly crazy.Hmm,probably why I find them appealing!
Here is a blue dutch and buff runner duck "playing 'possum".They act like they are sleeping but their eye is open looking right at you!
One of The Boy's crazy looking Polish chickens.This one was born here this summer.It looks mad about something!They are actually gentle chickens.
For a great end,what could be cuter than a spotted dirty donkey! Here is our,now poke hole free,Bonnie.
You can go walk along it and judging by the tracks it is the 'coon super highway!Big ones,little ones,mommas and babies.This is not the best track picture,their tracks look like little hands.
It is no wonder those mentally deficient dogs of Hubby's bark all freaking night long....all night long.Oh,I said that all ready.
Hubby comes home tomorrow,yeah!That will perk up the blog post,we are always super busy when he is home.So for tonight I will just post some random farm picts.Oh, Guinness one of the new goats got bronchitis and had to have a visit to the vet.She is taking her medicine and good doses of probiotics and seems to be on the mend. Nibbles had this once, very persistently,but a change in feed was the answer for her.
Here is some purple basil.I mostly just grow it because it is pretty.
Our sky today,beautiful.
This is Earnest,our sassy little bannie rooster.
Elvis,the king rooster,takin' care of his ladies!
Guineas doing who knows what on the roof the coop. I really like them,but they are slightly crazy.Hmm,probably why I find them appealing!
Here is a blue dutch and buff runner duck "playing 'possum".They act like they are sleeping but their eye is open looking right at you!
One of The Boy's crazy looking Polish chickens.This one was born here this summer.It looks mad about something!They are actually gentle chickens.
For a great end,what could be cuter than a spotted dirty donkey! Here is our,now poke hole free,Bonnie.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Fall,at last!
Fall, Fall, Fall, glorious Fall, how you make my heart flutter!If only it would stay this way forever,sigh. I know, it sounds like over kill.It is just so wonderful to go out in the mornings and do chores and not be dripping wet with sweat at 6 am.To hang out laundry in bright sunshine and cool breezes instead of laundry that is baked into some sort of stiff fabric board in 10 minutes.
Flowers blooming instead of wilting and dieing.
Veggies in the garden.Baby red cabbage and
speckled butter beans.
Leaves turning and falling because it is time not because they are moisture starved and burnt to a crisp.Animals frisky and playing,also grateful for the relief.Sigh....
Fiona,happily staked out in the tall grass, alone.
This time of year is so distracting.I have so much to do,especially since the weather is nice.I find it hard to focus,I want to sit and watch the goats play,explore the woods,be outside all the time.If only I could forget about cooking,cleaning,laundry,homeschool,painting,the endless painting...grrr!Oh well,back to grown up land!I am trying to get the walls in the kitchen, dining room and hall way done this weekend,if I can stay motivated!I am tired of looking at the ugly kitchen,but is is nobody's fault but my own,I am the one who is tired of painting and put it off.Painting is just the first step it is going to have to have a total redo from floor to ceiling,but the paint will make a big difference.But,The Boy is out playing with the goats and it is such a nice day......
Flowers blooming instead of wilting and dieing.
Veggies in the garden.Baby red cabbage and
speckled butter beans.
Leaves turning and falling because it is time not because they are moisture starved and burnt to a crisp.Animals frisky and playing,also grateful for the relief.Sigh....
Fiona,happily staked out in the tall grass, alone.
This time of year is so distracting.I have so much to do,especially since the weather is nice.I find it hard to focus,I want to sit and watch the goats play,explore the woods,be outside all the time.If only I could forget about cooking,cleaning,laundry,homeschool,painting,the endless painting...grrr!Oh well,back to grown up land!I am trying to get the walls in the kitchen, dining room and hall way done this weekend,if I can stay motivated!I am tired of looking at the ugly kitchen,but is is nobody's fault but my own,I am the one who is tired of painting and put it off.Painting is just the first step it is going to have to have a total redo from floor to ceiling,but the paint will make a big difference.But,The Boy is out playing with the goats and it is such a nice day......
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Cow Woes
Fiona is my milk cow. She was my Christmas present last year.
I had been wanting a milk cow for ages. I wanted an Irish Dexter and that is just what my dear Hubby got me. Fiona was bred and gave us Anna Belle in the Spring. Our plan is to have a small herd,meat for us and sell any extras. Fiona has always had an attitude about being around other animals.
This,I theorize,is from being raised as a 4-H project.She is well trained,and is easy to work with for the most part,but was not raised with other animals,hence the attitude.Her calf,sweet little Anna Belle is nothing like her,she loves all the other critters.Fiona is not a very good milk cow either.She won't let down her milk for me,even after I let the calf get her started.She gives us enough not to have to buy any,but not enough to make all the yummy extras like butter and cheese.Her attitude as of late has gotten much worse.She is trying to gore the other animals.She used to only bother them when they got close, now she is to the point she is trying to hurt them.So now she is getting staked out in the field by herself.She has no aggression towards people because that is where she thinks she belongs,with people.
I am hoping to keep her in milk until the goats start having babies in December.I'll just have to see how it goes.When Hubby gets home next week we are going to start fencing in the front pasture.
Fiona will get a spot all to herself.This is how it goes in farm land,sometimes you get a wonderful animal,sometimes you get a stinker.I am not ready to sell her,she has nice calves and is a good momma.She will just have to be alone,which is what she wants anyway,after we get our herd going then I may sell her.It really depends on how she acts.
I had been wanting a milk cow for ages. I wanted an Irish Dexter and that is just what my dear Hubby got me. Fiona was bred and gave us Anna Belle in the Spring. Our plan is to have a small herd,meat for us and sell any extras. Fiona has always had an attitude about being around other animals.
This,I theorize,is from being raised as a 4-H project.She is well trained,and is easy to work with for the most part,but was not raised with other animals,hence the attitude.Her calf,sweet little Anna Belle is nothing like her,she loves all the other critters.Fiona is not a very good milk cow either.She won't let down her milk for me,even after I let the calf get her started.She gives us enough not to have to buy any,but not enough to make all the yummy extras like butter and cheese.Her attitude as of late has gotten much worse.She is trying to gore the other animals.She used to only bother them when they got close, now she is to the point she is trying to hurt them.So now she is getting staked out in the field by herself.She has no aggression towards people because that is where she thinks she belongs,with people.
I am hoping to keep her in milk until the goats start having babies in December.I'll just have to see how it goes.When Hubby gets home next week we are going to start fencing in the front pasture.
Fiona will get a spot all to herself.This is how it goes in farm land,sometimes you get a wonderful animal,sometimes you get a stinker.I am not ready to sell her,she has nice calves and is a good momma.She will just have to be alone,which is what she wants anyway,after we get our herd going then I may sell her.It really depends on how she acts.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Perfect Weather
Summer still lingers here,but it is loosing it's grasp on us.
The last few days have been almost heavenly.Nights cool enough to snuggle under a few blankets,the days sunny and perfect,no humidity and cool breezes,mmmmm.If every day could be this way.
These are my Grandpa Otts morning glories.They grow up the post of my old shed.
In the goatie world,Doodah is in the dating mood.No,this is not her dating hat,though if it would get her through the fence she would wear it!She is wearing The Boy's boy scout hat!
She is a vocal goat,we call her The Foghorn!She is having terrible longings and desirings to get in with Mr.Tumnus and doesn't care who knows it!He is just as bad,the sounds coming from the goat pen are akin to..to..well I don't know what really!I guess you'd just have to experience it first hand!The Boy wants to wait until spring to let them....consummate their love.He wants to try and plan it out so he has a goat to milk all year around and can give each girl time off.But hey,if there is a slip up what's the worst that happens?Baby goats,not a bad thing at all!He is very serious about his goats and keeps everything written down and planned out in a notebook and researches goat things daily!
The mallards are getting green heads!I had given up and assumed they were all girls.
Turns out we got 3 fellows and only one gal!You can see they are not that beautiful mallard green yet,but they are getting there.
The white and tan ducks are Fawn Runner Ducks.They are really pretty too,although I don't think they run any different than the other ducks.
If your one of those folks that get creepy feelings over spiders you may not want to look any further!
This cool looking spider is living outside my shed.The pictures don't do it justice,I was having trouble getting focused and the wind was blowing.
It's colors are shiny like the wings of butterflies!I have know idea what kind of spider it is.
I don't have any fears of critters,ticks really gross me out(gross me out,that dates me to the 80's haha) but I am not afraid of them.Hubby hates spiders,The Boy dislikes snakes.He also severely dislikes bears and electric eels,though I don't know why.We could have bears back hear soon.I read and article how they are getting real close to our area.With us being surrounded by national forest,it probably won't be long until we start seeing them.The Boy is none to happy about this,he hopes they allow hunting on them!I told him if that was ever the case he would have to eat it because we don't kill for sport.He assured me he would be happy to eat bear all year!
The Boy just loves to mess with folks,gets that from his Daddy.The two of them are never happier than when they are telling some tall tell!He loves to tell things that make us sound like big ole' hillbillies!He tells people we eat 'possum and coon.How we can tell if a particular piece of roadkill is still good eating.He don't need no doctorin' cause when he gets home his Momma will make a poultice for him,OK that part may be true!He hints around that we have a still...you know stuff like that.I think it is hilarious!Of course as soon as I open my deeply accented hillbilly mouth they believe him.People believe anyone with that accent must eat 'possum pie!Now I am not saying I wouldn't eat those things,heck I probably did on occasion as a child.If times got real bad we would all eat a 'possum in a heartbeat!
The wind is starting to pick up,I have noticed it seems to be very windy here in the winter and early spring.We are surrounded by big oaks,I love the sound of the wind rushing through them!
The Goldenrod are just starting to bloom here.
This can give you all who are all further along in your cold weather an idea where we are in our season.Goldenrod is beautiful,but always comes with it's evil twin ragweed!Sneeze..sneeze..it should be changed to sneeze weed !
Hubby will be home in one week!!!!Yeah !!!
The last few days have been almost heavenly.Nights cool enough to snuggle under a few blankets,the days sunny and perfect,no humidity and cool breezes,mmmmm.If every day could be this way.
These are my Grandpa Otts morning glories.They grow up the post of my old shed.
In the goatie world,Doodah is in the dating mood.No,this is not her dating hat,though if it would get her through the fence she would wear it!She is wearing The Boy's boy scout hat!
She is a vocal goat,we call her The Foghorn!She is having terrible longings and desirings to get in with Mr.Tumnus and doesn't care who knows it!He is just as bad,the sounds coming from the goat pen are akin to..to..well I don't know what really!I guess you'd just have to experience it first hand!The Boy wants to wait until spring to let them....consummate their love.He wants to try and plan it out so he has a goat to milk all year around and can give each girl time off.But hey,if there is a slip up what's the worst that happens?Baby goats,not a bad thing at all!He is very serious about his goats and keeps everything written down and planned out in a notebook and researches goat things daily!
The mallards are getting green heads!I had given up and assumed they were all girls.
Turns out we got 3 fellows and only one gal!You can see they are not that beautiful mallard green yet,but they are getting there.
The white and tan ducks are Fawn Runner Ducks.They are really pretty too,although I don't think they run any different than the other ducks.
If your one of those folks that get creepy feelings over spiders you may not want to look any further!
This cool looking spider is living outside my shed.The pictures don't do it justice,I was having trouble getting focused and the wind was blowing.
It's colors are shiny like the wings of butterflies!I have know idea what kind of spider it is.
I don't have any fears of critters,ticks really gross me out(gross me out,that dates me to the 80's haha) but I am not afraid of them.Hubby hates spiders,The Boy dislikes snakes.He also severely dislikes bears and electric eels,though I don't know why.We could have bears back hear soon.I read and article how they are getting real close to our area.With us being surrounded by national forest,it probably won't be long until we start seeing them.The Boy is none to happy about this,he hopes they allow hunting on them!I told him if that was ever the case he would have to eat it because we don't kill for sport.He assured me he would be happy to eat bear all year!
The Boy just loves to mess with folks,gets that from his Daddy.The two of them are never happier than when they are telling some tall tell!He loves to tell things that make us sound like big ole' hillbillies!He tells people we eat 'possum and coon.How we can tell if a particular piece of roadkill is still good eating.He don't need no doctorin' cause when he gets home his Momma will make a poultice for him,OK that part may be true!He hints around that we have a still...you know stuff like that.I think it is hilarious!Of course as soon as I open my deeply accented hillbilly mouth they believe him.People believe anyone with that accent must eat 'possum pie!Now I am not saying I wouldn't eat those things,heck I probably did on occasion as a child.If times got real bad we would all eat a 'possum in a heartbeat!
The wind is starting to pick up,I have noticed it seems to be very windy here in the winter and early spring.We are surrounded by big oaks,I love the sound of the wind rushing through them!
The Goldenrod are just starting to bloom here.
This can give you all who are all further along in your cold weather an idea where we are in our season.Goldenrod is beautiful,but always comes with it's evil twin ragweed!Sneeze..sneeze..it should be changed to sneeze weed !
Hubby will be home in one week!!!!Yeah !!!
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