Monday, March 18, 2024

Lowe’s Kids Day, Picnic, And A Tock

Virginia was taking Sadie and Allie to Kids Day at Lowe’s on Saturday. She asked if I would come help.  I was in charge of helping Allie with her project and Virginia helped Sadie.

 Allie was scared of the hammer at first.  But with a little coaxing she became a hammering machine.  

The project was a bird feeder.  


I now have two new beautiful bird feeders in my tree.

                                             

We also enjoyed a picnic in the front yard in the afternoon.  Sadie wanted to play hid and seek and squished into all of the bushes in the yard. Then Sunday afternoon Virginia brought her back because she had a tick attached to her ear. 

Mike had already attempted the removal but part of the tick was left behind.  Luckily, they know a vet that doesn’t mind family emergencies and has a lot of experience removing ticks.  Sadie was a doll and earned an ice pop and piece of chocolate.  And in case you are curious, a tick needs to be attached for over 36 hours before it can transmit Lyme disease. 

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Eastward Expansion

The forsythias are in full bloom and were spectacular with the morning sun shining through them.  

This is the prettiest they have been in a few years.  
Then I decided that I liked my rock garden so much that I wanted to extend it further to the East.  That part of the yard is pretty unusable for anything else much. 
So here is my first expansion rock.  As big as it is I hope it isn't my last.  It will be a struggle to get this one into place. 
 

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Not A Tree This Time

Joe has been consistently having to repair fences.  But this time the fence was not damaged by a tree. 
It was smashed by a chimney. Bet you didn’t see that one coming.  

There is an old house on our farm up the road.  I thought the house would fall in not the chimney.  Oh well, now I have to think of a project that can use up a few bricks.  

And just kidding about not being a tree on the fence, because we had that today too. 
This one was in the hollow, another line fence, lots of multi flora rose bushes on the other side.  After fixing this this spot we walked the fence and found 4 more spots that needed to be fixed.  Joe had to go back to the house to get more supplies.  
While I was waiting I found some wildflowers blooming, a small bunch of phlox,
Spring Beauty, 
And a little different version of Spring Beauty, 

And one Blood Root popping up.  
At least the weather was nice and the ground dry.  
It’s probably just a matter of time before this one ends up on the fence.

Sunday, March 10, 2024

Six

My brother has season tickets for a Broadway musical series.  Unfortunately for him, he was out of town on a missionary trip to Africa during one of the shows.  To not let the ticket go to waste, I went.
The seats were great, second row, section right,  on the aisle. My sister A let me have the aisle seat.
Six is a musical about the six wives of Henry the 8th.  Although I felt it was more of a theatrical concert with a bit of a story line.  I did fine myself wishing there was closed captions because I had a hard time understanding some of the lyrics.  But I was glad I had my ear plugs, they made listening more pleasant. 

 The theater holds 3000 and it looked like it was sold out. I had a fun evening with a change of pace and a great visit with sister A. 

Friday, March 8, 2024

Wildlife Brush Pile

 Emily has been suggesting that we make our farm more wildlife friendly.  With the goats eating all of the brush there isn’t a whole lot of cover.  I asked Emily to send me a link on constructing a wildlife brush pile.  The link she sent had a lot of reading so I just googled photos and went by that.  After looking at a few pictures this is what I ended up constructing. 

I think it turned out great.  Although it will probably only attract coyotes.  But I can always have a nice bonfire if I don’t like it later. 

The cows were looking at me like I was crazy.
They are probably just waiting until I leave so they can rub it down and poop on it.

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

More Trees On Fences

Yet another tree has fallen across a fence.  I don’t know how it is possible that we have any more trees next to a fence with the number that have fallen recently.  This one was an ash tree killed by the emerald ash borer.  It was in a rough area so I went with Joe to help.
I forgot my camera but this is basically the same as a picture - a big tree flattening an American wire property line fence with a huge bramble of multi flora rose bushes on the other side because the neighbor doesn’t have goats to eat them.  Then Joe fighting through the briars to get the chainsaw in position to cut the big trunk.  You may not be able to tell from the picture but it was also on a steep hill, like most of our farm, and next to a creek.  There are three more trees close by leaning the same way so I’m sure we will be here again soon.
 

Monday, March 4, 2024

Selling The Billies

The second kid crop from our Savannan/Kiko cross Billie’s is due to start arriving next month. We didn’t want to use them for a third time so it was time to sell them. 

Last week we sold one to a man at church that has a few goats. He came to look at the two with a trailer in tow so we thought there was a good chance one would be leaving. 
Then to not have to deal with facebook or Craig lists inquiries we decided to sell the other one through the Local sheep and goat club.  They had a shipment heading to Pennsylvania for the sale today.  Club members can sign up and bring their sheep and goats to share a trailer.  There are usually all manner of hauling contraptions. 

I showed up with the billy in a dog crate. 
                                     

Everyone else had a trailer of some sort.  I saw one license plate that said BAHH.  Hopefully he had a good trip.  With Easter coming up hopefully we will get a good price. 
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