Yes, yet another new addititon will be coming to the farm. On or arounf the 21st of September we will be getting a border collie puppy. We went yesterday to pick him out.

He was the sad sac of the litter. We have been looking for a male for awhile now. The littler was a littler of 6 , 2 females and 4 males. We know both parents and are very pleased.

Now comes the hard part. His name. We thought we want something different , and old fashioned. We liked Charlie, and Sid. But not sure

I would love for Help on this one. Please send me your names. Spread the word.......

I know it will be fun to see what all of you can come up with.

And I thank you in advance.

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Let me try to catch you all up with whats been going on here in our little peice of the world. I can't beleive how much I have missed blogging and reading all your blogs. But thank heavens I have not been the only one that have been away from blogging for awhile.

Summer has finally hit us and we are hoping it stays with us for alittle longer. The warmer temps have dryed up the feilds and everything is finally starting to look normal for this time of year. The kids have been enjoying the lazy mornings and brunch everymorning instead of breakfast. They love sleeping out in the backyard in the travel trailer and eating outside. I think I could count on one hand the amount of days that they have not been in the pool. I never bought so much sun block in my life.

We have been making regular visits to the libary, and we have been spending a hour once or twice a week reading our Childrens Bible. Also once a week working on math facts at different levels,and writing as well. (I feel this is good for the children)

As for the household itself not much has changed indoors still my regular cleaning and washing alough my new wringer washer that is set up in my back porch is working very nicely and I have never had soooooo much help with the laundry before.

As for outdoors my flowers don't look have bad, and the herb garden is both tasting and smelling some yummy. My pond is finally finished and well if I could only either keep my ducks out or at least keep them from knocking over my center fountain I would have a not to bad looking pond. Our potatoes,beans peas,corn pumpkins,zucs,squash,cucs, and tomatoes are also coming.

The turkeys are getting big fast so it won't be much longer till they make their way to the freezer. We have just taken them off of medicated food so it will parobly be another 3 weks till that time. The meat birds are real escape artists and the kids chase them around the yard all day trying to keep them in their pen. So they too will find their way to the deep freezer. We have a smaller pig ready for butchering and we will butcher the other latter this Fall. When we do our beef cow.

I spent the last fews days with the children picking wild strawberries and then making jam and strawberry shortcake. My tame berries are coming but not yet ready for picking. I also see the raspberries will be ready in the next couple of weeks.

Inbetween making meals,cleanning, getting ready for hay making, I have been sheering my sheep. I try to do a few in the morning and a few more at night when the weather cools down abit. I have not yet started the llamas but hope to soon. Then try to get most of my wool skirted and washed to spin this Fall.

We have friends that moved here last year and are renting a house, now they know that their job will be perament so they have sold their house away and have just came back from getting the rest out of the stuff in the house,and to my favour I have been given a beautiful 6 chairs and very large dining room table. YEAH!!! I love it and the best part it was given to us.

It must be deal week as I also went to the store and bought 15 liters of cream that was marked down as it was close to expiry. You guessed I made us some butter.

Well I hope it dosn't take as long again to blog, as I really did miss this. I wish you all a blessed day. 

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Hello everyone,

Well I really cannot beleive where the time has gone. It has been a month and I am just getting back to blog. WOW.  Things here have been realy spring like with all the running around trying to get everything put back and cleanned out. I have spent the last few hours catching up on all my blogging friends blogs and cannot beleive what I have been missing out on. Also with some also moving bolgs.

I'll try my best to bring all you up to date with what has been going on around here. Where to start? well there has been no colts born yet, but it is getting very close for both  Shyann the pony and Lea the Llama. The incubator has been working overtime hatching a liitle of everything from different kinds of chickens to ducks to geese. Our bird order for our turkeys and guinnas hens just came in on Saturday, and we ended up getting 25 meat birds for very little as well as the feed store called us up asking if we wanted them as the people did not pick up their orders. I also have another 25 coming from a different feed store on June 17th so needless to say we will have lots of chicken this winter.Good thing hubby picked up that extra deepfreeze from friend at work last week.

I started cleaning out the pond and also started a new flower bed that will have have a large part for my herb garden. I will be finishing up the beds for hem this week.

My son came home from school last Friday with Pink eye and gave it to his sisters, So I spent Mothers Day in the ER making sure that was what it was, and sure enough they had to spend the week home. Which turned out to be a great week of outdoor cleanning. We had special collection in our garbage pick up so we really cleaned house or should I say yard.

But the good news ends there as on Wednesday afternoon hubby and his boss from work went to check on our camp that is about 45 minutes away and is in the mountains. We always open it up for the year in May and close it for the winter in October.As we do not have a good snowmobile to get there in winter. Well they come to find that the second story roof had caved in and make a terrible mess. Where we last so much. The ground floor had suffered bad water damage and he had to take three days off of work and we travelled back and forth for three days. Luckly we have some good friends that came to lend a hand and with the help from God we were able to get a roof on it again and was given so furniture. Friends are always there when we need them, and I thank God each and everyday for them.

The laying hens are fially enjoying the outdoors as hubby and Justin built a nice caged in pen today off the back of the coop and I will enjoy not having the hens tear out my flower beds this summer.

We have been also enjoying alot of outdoor cooking the last little while and cannot wait to do somemore. Well I must get to bed and wish all of you another wonderful week ahead.

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Well its finally here, nice days at least for now. We had a beautiful week this past one. Made it all the way up to 18 one day.YEAH!!!

The greenhouse is in bloom, and i can now see tulips and crocus popping through the walkway. Lambing is only almost complete and its is almost time for the pony colts to be born. Then the llamas to have their crias, and my throughbred to have hers. The spring cleanning is underway as it has taken me so mush longer this year to get into it. (I think its because of the weather this spring) I am on the way to start painting the bathroom and hall. It should be started by Thursday if everything goes to plan. (which it never does) Our new front door has finally arrived and its beautiful with its frosted glass picture of a horse farm on it.

I ordered our meatbirds,turkeys, and guinna fowl on Wednesday,  and on Friday our little speckeled chicks in the incubator started hatching (never a dull moment around here.) The rodeisland reds are due this week to hatch as well. THe kids are having a balll again this year with the little ones.

Talking about the children they are also enjoying this weather they go through every pair of rubber boots they have in a matter of hours and change at least three times a day with all the mud around the yard. Oh the joys of spring here on the farm.

We got our new wringer washer last week and I need to get it set up and running in my back room this week. I can't wait. We also finished setting up our outdoor kitchen and had a beautiful rotiseraire chicken last night on it for supper. Yummy!

Well i hear the children out yelling at each other in the yard, so i better go see. ANd get them in to get washed up and dressed to go the the local high school play this afternoon. High school musical......

Take care everyone and I wish you all a  wonderful and joyful Sunday afternoon

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No sleeping in on Saturday mornings anymore with all these we little lambs running about. I don't mind on days like these. It is 1 drgree this morning and i can see the differance in the snow already these last few days. Spring has finally hit us. I can see my clothsline now, and will have my quilts back on there very soon.

All my kids and lambs are doing great. I had a unexpected mile long walk yesterday afternoon when my yearling llama decided to walk over the fence and head down the road as i was in the middle of delivering lambs. I did not even notice her gone until the neighbour came in blowing her car horn and telling me she was a mile down the road. I did catch up to her and had traffic stopped all over. Everyone thought she was soooo pretty. But at that point I did not, so in my old barn cloths and boots, I walked her by the halter a mile up the road. Who would have thought that there would ever be so much traffic on a country road. oh well. everyone was fine and the new twins who were named mary kate and ashley are also doing great. Well I hope you all have a wonderful Saturday.oh the joys of farming.

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What a beautiful day. It goes from -30 with the windchill to +7 (crazy weather) We let the geese and ducks out for a walk today and they were soooooo happy. If they could have spoke they were sure to say Thankyou.

after everybody got their grain and we brushed the ponies and horses, the children and I let the sheep out and took our border collie for a run. after HB gets home from work we are going to go on a sleigh ride as it is going to be a beautiful night for one. I noticed how the large goats(the alpine,and saanen) have gotten so big. If my books are close to date they will be having thier young around the last week on Febuary to the third week of March. So it is not to far long. My sheep on the other hard will only be lambing at the  end of March till the begginning of april. (I have tryed early lambs and latter lambs but size wise at the end of Fall there was not much differance. The nice thing about this is by april it is not so cold and I don't loose as many to hash weather. We lost another leg horn chicken (white egg layer) last night. I have not had very good luck with them this winter. They do not seem to be as harty as the roade Island reds(brown egg layer) the best I've had out of all. I love my big brown eggs they make everything I make so much better I find.

When we had our cold spell our chickens went from laying 24 eggs a day to 4 eggs a day. Now they are back to laying anywhere from 12 to 18 a day not bad. Wrather can play a vital role in egg laying even with the heat lamps.

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