Saturday, June 18, 2011

New little additions ..baby chicks

It time of excitements around here again ...little chicks are hatching every day, Iris discovered the first one a few days ago... right now we have 5 chicks so far, the 2 mama hens have at least 20 eggs under each one so we are going to see how many God will bless us with this time.
Well, the past few days we worked on moving the 2 big, metal horse shades and the big tack shed to another location in our back yard so now we have a complete un-interrupted view of the Superstition Mountain in our back yard besides we are putting up a very large round pen so we can exercise the horses and practice riding them in a safe place.

Today was the first day we felt that summer is really here, we turned the air conditioner on, it felt good!

Our garden is full of blessing especially tomatoes of all sizes and kinds, Nellie is our fruit and veggie picker, she is always thrilled when I ask her to please go and pick some veggies. But, her favorite thing lately is to sit by the goat that I milk and squirt milk in her mouth as I am milking the goat.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Summer Is Finally Here....

It has been a while sine I posted here I did write a bunch of posts they are in the draft some with titles and some without, I just had so much gardening and fun farm work to do while we had the perfect weather here in our area.
Our garden is doing really good, we have so much growing out there I can not keep up, the herbs are so abundant I have to give away all kinds like mint, basil, dill, cilantro, Oregano, garlic, parsley and the kale, beet green,chard, celery, 3 different kinds of lettuce, peppers, tomatoes least 4 different kinds, then I have so many different kinds of sunflowers and they are so big and towering over the rest of the vegetables to provide shade from our hot sun, It is always amazing to me after a few days of putting the seed in the ground and water it how God brings forth life and makes it grow and bring forth beauty, nourishment, and many many more seeds. On the other hand we now have 9 goats, 3 mama milking goats so we have an abundance of goats milk from 3 different breeds of goats, Lamancha, Nubian, Nigerian dwarf and Alpine, Our chickens are doing great and 3 of them are sitting on many many eggs so we are going to have many baby chicks running around soon.
Our above ground pool is been up and running, thanks to my wonderful husband he does all the work on it. I did get my own horse a few weeks ago his name is virgil kane so now we have 3 horses Iris have a new horse his name is deekay, Pumpkin is Nellie's horse now oh and we do have a new addition to our little farm, his name is Wally the goose.