Showing posts with label Farming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Farming. Show all posts
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Look What Daddy Bought For Mommy
A milking Barn!!! WOOHOO!! I think he felt sorry for me, having to milk in the wind, rain, snow, etc...so he searched and searched and found one in the our state that had kits that you put together on your site. We all chipped in!!
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Garden, goats, soccer
The kids and I spent most of the morning weeding and transplanting plants today. The weeds have overtaken the garden, we have had so much rain lately they are growing faster than I can pull them.
The newly fence garden. One side needs to be reinforced because of our very strong winds but that will have to wait until July. The chickens are still getting in the garden so I will still have to cover the beds with netting.
We transplanted one bed of Tomatoes, and just as Jacob and I were finishing a hail storm came in. I stood by for the 2-3 minutes it took to pass. The tomatoes didn't get any damage from it.
Strawberry bed. We have already picked some and can't wait until there is more.
Jacob and I weeding the beds.
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Praise is giving me about a quart a day. I put the babies away in the evening and milk in the morning. I then return babies to mama. I can't wait for another month when I wean the kids so I can get double the amount of milk
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Soccer season ends this week. I am always sad to see it end. The kids just love it as do the parents. Upward is such a great program. The kids learn drills, sportsmanship, and scripture all at the same time. Each week they are given scripture to memorize and drills to work on. This will be Jacob's last year:( Not sure what he wants to do next year, he has talked about Martial arts but we will see.
Jocelyn's soccer picture, poor girl was throwing up that morning but made it for pictures.
The newly fence garden. One side needs to be reinforced because of our very strong winds but that will have to wait until July. The chickens are still getting in the garden so I will still have to cover the beds with netting.
We transplanted one bed of Tomatoes, and just as Jacob and I were finishing a hail storm came in. I stood by for the 2-3 minutes it took to pass. The tomatoes didn't get any damage from it.
Strawberry bed. We have already picked some and can't wait until there is more.
Jacob and I weeding the beds.
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Praise is giving me about a quart a day. I put the babies away in the evening and milk in the morning. I then return babies to mama. I can't wait for another month when I wean the kids so I can get double the amount of milk
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Soccer season ends this week. I am always sad to see it end. The kids just love it as do the parents. Upward is such a great program. The kids learn drills, sportsmanship, and scripture all at the same time. Each week they are given scripture to memorize and drills to work on. This will be Jacob's last year:( Not sure what he wants to do next year, he has talked about Martial arts but we will see.
Jocelyn's soccer picture, poor girl was throwing up that morning but made it for pictures.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Happy Birthday and a new addition
Yesterday was Jaelyn's 5th Birthday! Grandma and Grandpa came over to help celebrate with us.
She requested donuts for breakfast.
Happy Birthday Jaelynnnyyyy!!
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A couple weeks ago we were given the opportunity to buy some lambs, So of course we did. Not for breeding but for meat. They will be butchered in late fall this year. I love me some mutton☺
These are hair sheep(sheep that don't need to be sheared but lose their hair in clumps). The goats are tolerant of them, but they won't let us get near them. Oh well at least we won't get attached. I love their brown color though.
She requested donuts for breakfast.
Happy Birthday Jaelynnnyyyy!!
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A couple weeks ago we were given the opportunity to buy some lambs, So of course we did. Not for breeding but for meat. They will be butchered in late fall this year. I love me some mutton☺
These are hair sheep(sheep that don't need to be sheared but lose their hair in clumps). The goats are tolerant of them, but they won't let us get near them. Oh well at least we won't get attached. I love their brown color though.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
3 more days
Praise's due date is coming fast! She is due on Tuesday so we are on goat watch. She has freedom during the day but gets locked up at night just in case. I will be staying close to home until she delivers.
She seems smaller this year than last year but I am still hoping for twins. She is, by far my sweetest goat, loves to be loved on. I try and get a picture up close but she is usually right in my face wanting kisses.
When feeding time comes around and I am late on getting out there they come looking for me at my kitchen window, yelling at me to get my rump out there to feed them.
When they see us coming its a full charge! I love their ears when they run makes them look like they are flying.
Chicken news
Right now we have 14 chickens plus three chicks. During the winter we were getting 5-8 eggs a day, now we are getting 0, nada, none. So the chickens have been put in jail until they start laying in the coop. I am not sure if they are hiding them or just taking a break from laying. Nobody is too happy about it, they usually have free range of the yard. My goal is to put the coop in the pasture with the goats, it will be a big job so I am not sure it will happen this year or not.
She seems smaller this year than last year but I am still hoping for twins. She is, by far my sweetest goat, loves to be loved on. I try and get a picture up close but she is usually right in my face wanting kisses.
When feeding time comes around and I am late on getting out there they come looking for me at my kitchen window, yelling at me to get my rump out there to feed them.
When they see us coming its a full charge! I love their ears when they run makes them look like they are flying.
Chicken news
Right now we have 14 chickens plus three chicks. During the winter we were getting 5-8 eggs a day, now we are getting 0, nada, none. So the chickens have been put in jail until they start laying in the coop. I am not sure if they are hiding them or just taking a break from laying. Nobody is too happy about it, they usually have free range of the yard. My goal is to put the coop in the pasture with the goats, it will be a big job so I am not sure it will happen this year or not.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
What we've been up to
A whole lot of nothing. Just busy with school, and working in the garden getting it ready for planting, and also getting ready for some kids! My garden is about 2x the size it was last year, so a good part of my summer will be keeping up with the weeds:)
I have 2 goats that are to kid on May 9th so we are also getting ready for that. We are very excited and a bit nervous as this is our first kidding. *note to self~stagger births:)
Schooling is continuing along nicely, we should be completely done by mid to end of June. Some of our subjects will finish up before then so it won't feel as we are doing that much school. The 3 oldest kids are in soccer this year again, and they are loving it. I am glad to say that the weather is cooperating unlike last year;)
Green house being built
finished! and put back together after wind almost destroyed it!
I have 2 goats that are to kid on May 9th so we are also getting ready for that. We are very excited and a bit nervous as this is our first kidding. *note to self~stagger births:)
Schooling is continuing along nicely, we should be completely done by mid to end of June. Some of our subjects will finish up before then so it won't feel as we are doing that much school. The 3 oldest kids are in soccer this year again, and they are loving it. I am glad to say that the weather is cooperating unlike last year;)
Green house being built
finished! and put back together after wind almost destroyed it!
Saturday, February 21, 2009
NO, I have't dropped off the face of the earth:)
Jordan studying her AWANA book before competition at the AWANA Bible quizzing, where they got 2nd place!
The roses Rob gave me for V~day
I am trying my hand at drying the rose petals in my garage on my dirt sifter Rob made for me.
We've been busy, it is almost spring you know:) We are planning our garden and seeing what needs to be done around the property. Our first project we are working on is our garden. It will be much bigger this year so we can start canning and preserving more, I think we all need to put our basic skills to work because no one knows what the future holds for us. We also just purchased a green house so I can work more:), haha. I ordered my seed from Seeds of Change and Johnny's. I am waiting patiently for Spring to arrive so I can get busy in the garden.
We have signed the kids up for 4H and are excited about adding this to our school curriculum. There is a lot to know going into it, but I think it will only benefit the kids and their academics.
Two of the goats are to kid in mid-May if their meeting with the buck took...we shall see. I assisted Dalyn in cleaning off her goat kids when hers delivered and that was an experience like no other. I can not wait for the kids~they are so fun!
We also will be getting 2 lambs and a beef cow hopefully soon so come fall our freezer will be full!
School is progressing along just fine, the kids can see the light at the end of the tunnel:) Each month we participate in "Country Nights" where there is one country picked and all the kids do a project from that country. The parents bring a meal from that country and after the meal is eaten then the presentations are made. Here is Jocelyn presenting marmots to the group, for the country Austria. This month is the country of Hungary.
Monday, September 8, 2008
They're finally home!
After almost a year from when my friend gave me a goat for my birthday, she and two others came home. I was sick over the weekend so I wasn't able to get some pictures when they came home. So today, after school when my handsome hubby took the kiddos to go pick blackberries and prunes, I headed out to the pasture with my camara. They are so darn cute and friendly as can be!!!
"Victory"
"Praise"
"Mimi" Praises Daughter
"All three"
"Victory"
"Praise"
"Mimi" Praises Daughter
"All three"
Friday, August 1, 2008
Update
Love that catchy title eh? We've been quite busy the last few weeks. The family went Blueberry picking twice, which yielded 9 gallons of berries. I made a batch of strawberry jam, harvested veggies out of the garden, finished the fence, butchered 2 of our roosters. Here are some pictures:
Elvis~a young, but very mean rooster. So off to the pot for him!
Brownie~a very protective rooster but also beating the hens up, so off to the pot he goes!
This is what over half of our hens look like.
Our finally finished pasture fence. This is one project we are glad to have done.
Some of the veggies we harvested out of the garden. This is the second picking of carrots and we are picking tomatoes everyday, but some of them don't make it into the house:)
Elvis~a young, but very mean rooster. So off to the pot for him!
Brownie~a very protective rooster but also beating the hens up, so off to the pot he goes!
This is what over half of our hens look like.
Our finally finished pasture fence. This is one project we are glad to have done.
Some of the veggies we harvested out of the garden. This is the second picking of carrots and we are picking tomatoes everyday, but some of them don't make it into the house:)
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