Windy Acres

Early Morning Cattle Drive

{ 10:40, Sunday, February 25, 2007 } { 2 comments } { Link }

I got up this morning and stared about my usual routine of making coffee, feeding dogs, cats, etc. I was standing at the kitchen sink when I heard cows mooing. Not so unusual around here. But this seemed alot louder and alot closer. I looked out the window and saw about a dozen black Angus right on the other side of the back yard fence. Not where they are supposed to be! So I call Robert, their adoptive father. He was just pulling into the pasture and had seen them already. He quickly realized they were not his but belonged to Larry across the road. Larry was on the scene shortly (aren't cell phones great?). By now the wayward bovines had made their way across my side yard and down the driveway. I stood at the livingroom windows, drinking coffee, watching Larry and Robert heard the cows with their pickups. Finally they got out and tried to coax the cows across the lowered hot wire and back into the field. Success at last!
Who needs TV?

Possum Soup anyone?

{ 02:33, Friday, February 23, 2007 } { Posted in Andy Antics } { 0 comments } { Link }

This was taken several weeks ago. Darrell actually made the kill but Andy is taking full credit for it.

The sickies are here again

{ 08:57, Friday, February 23, 2007 } { Posted in Daily Musings } { 0 comments } { Link }

Just when I thought I got everyone well, here come those nasty germs again. Darrell is back in bed with a sore throat and congestion. I feel like my head is stuffed with cotton. Luckily Andy seems to be getting by with just a little stuffy nose. But momma's don't have time to be sick!

I promised Andy that after school we would give that old banty house a fresh coat of paint. I need to drag it into the shop and out of the wind before we can start though. I found some old green paint that matches the house. I think we will use that up and save ourselves a trip to town for more white paint.

Anyone want to come to my house and cook supper tonight? I'm thinking sloppy joes or pizza. We are expecting severe storms tonight and I just hope the power doesn't go out.

Spring is in the Air!!

{ 07:05, Wednesday, February 21, 2007 } { Posted in Daily Musings } { 0 comments } { Link }

Mother Nature was really teasing me today. It was an absolutly gorgeous day! It got up to 76 degrees with no wind! After I got home from town, Andy and I spent the whole afternoon outside. Poor Darrell was inside asleep, after working all night and fighting a cold.

Andy and I cleaned out the shed to get it ready for the chicks. We emptied and clean up a small stock tank that we are going to use as our brooder. I found a bulb for the brooder light and rigged it up with a chain and bungy cord so it will hang over the brooder and be adjustable as the chicks grow. I also dug the brooder cover out of the pole barn and cleaned it up. I found that termintes were eating the bottom board so I sprayed it down with the water hose and doused it with kerosene. After it dries I will move it into the shed. Yesterday I bought a new feeder and waterer for the new babies. After I got that all done, I drove out to the pasture and loaded up the old banty house that the pigs were living in when they were little. I brought it back up to the house and hosed it out. I think we can move the chicks into it after they outgrow the brooder if the full size coop is not finished yet.

To top off our activities, Andy and I surveyed the garden and cleaned up some dying asperagus plants. I think I'm going to till them up. Since the chickens are going to take up part of the garden space, I hate to waste a whole section on asperagus that aren't doing so well anyway.

By then the sun was setting and it was starting to get cool. Andy and I grilled steaks that had been marinating all day. They were soooo good. Darrell got up just long enough to eat supper and go outside and see Andy's "Farm" that he has been building. He's back in bed now. I hope he makes it to work tomorrow.

So overall it was a good day. I used to think autumn was my favorite season but spring is starting to win out. Especially after the cold cold winter we have had.

Monday, Monday

{ 10:02, Monday, February 19, 2007 } { Posted in Daily Musings } { 0 comments } { Link }

Well, it is Monday morning and we are up and running. Andy actually woke up early and was in a faily decent mood considering it was 10:30 before he went to sleep last night. Even Darrell is up drinking coffee and catching up on the news. I've been taking advantage of the quiet and getting some work done. LOVE working from home on days like this. It is technically a state holiday but I get in hours when I can.

The temps have warmed up but it is so windy. Darrell wants to clean off the back porch this afternoon. Fine with me. I'll ride this early Spring Cleaning trip as far as it goes!

The Chickens are Coming!

{ 08:16, Sunday, February 18, 2007 } { Posted in Daily Musings } { 1 comments } { Link }

I have finally convinced Darrell to let me have chickens again. Maybe I just caught him in a moment of weakness. But we have decided to build them a nice coop and put it next to the garden. If all else fails, I will have a nice new garden shed, right? But they come with stipulations. The first being, no Free Range chickens. The last ones were free range at times and it drove Darrell nuts. I think it was the morning he left for work at 6:30a.m. and stepped in fresh chicken droppings in the garage. Smokey, the gray Banty, was standing there looking at him and it just didn't sit well with him. Can't say that I blame him. So this time we are going to build them a nice enclosed run so they can dust in the dirt, eat worms and enjoy the sunshine.

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