Garrett's New TEMPORARY Do!

Garrett decided he had had enough of his snowboarding hair so we decided to buzz him for the summer season. Well, he decided for an intermediate stop for a few days between his snowboarder cut and his buzz. Welcome to Garrett the punk!

How About This Rack!!!

These are the shed antlers from the Breeder buck at the deer farm. amazing aren't they! The dogs were interested as you can see!

30 years in the making!

OK, Mom says 28 years but I know when I was promised at horse when I turned 12 by my dad, it was still several years out, so I say 30 years! I am getting my horse. She is a draft cross about 6 years old and a rescue. We went to see her today and she is sweet and ever so gentle. We fell in love but kept our heads until we were sure it would be an appropriate placement. Her name is Jazzmine but we are going to change it. Maybe Saint since we got her on St Patricks day. She will be here Saturday and I can not wait until we get her in the pasture. Thank you to my dear hubby who is willing to take (yet another) chance on me and an animal I said is perfect. (Remember we are getting honey bees too!)(This usually works out just fine.. :-)

More New Residents

For those of you who havent heard, Maggie had a false pregnancy. No puppies! I guess it is common in dogs particularly in the first breeding. But that hasn't kept us from adding more residents. Here are our newest little chickens. The gray ones are silkies and the dark ones are welsummers. They are supposed to lay dark brown eggs. The buff one is an accidental cross between a buff orpington and a welsummer that we got for free. They have all moved out tothe chicken compound with the others from last year. I am happy to report that we are getting three to four eggs a day now! The new ones should start laying in June.

Making Maple Syrup

Around this time of year everyone wants to get out. We decided to try making maple syrup from the sugar maples on the farm. We found a book called Backyard Sugarin that showed you how to do it without investing a ton on money in equipment and we are well on our way to our first gallon of maple syrup. It takes 40 gallons of sap to make a gallon of syrup but we are gathering full milk jugs all the time. We are storing it in an old pepsi keg until we can get enough to start boiling, probably this weekend. Hoping to have some on pancakes at Easter!

More Signs of Spring

We have had a few really nice and sunny days here and the tackle boxes have found their way out. It started on Thursday by freezing worms on the thin layer of ice that was still just under the surface of the water of the pond. By Saturday it was thawed and open for both fishing and canoeing. It was wonderful to be out. Garrett learned to drive the 4 wheeler and was taking Hunter for rides for a while. Then Hunter decided he would rather drive so he went around with dad behind to keep him safe.

Spring

I have planted my usual too early crop of spring plants and have already had to transfer sugar peas and squash to bigger bowls. Usually I have killed the first batch by now and replant but due to my success ( totally unforeseen) I may have squash growing all over the sunroom before spring actually arrives. It is so nice to have a little green growing when its all white outside!