A Jesusfreaks tales of farm life with soon to be Six kids

[Jesusfreak101]

What's for dinner the green are from our garden wooohooo and brownies for desert

 

[Baymule]

13 kids? Wow.

 

[Jesusfreak101]

Most of our church family (friends we have to there for the most part) have 3 or more kids. 13 is the largest. Most have 4 and 5 kids. Our paster has 9 kids. Like i said large families lol. Apparently a great (maybe great great can't remember) of mine had 28 or was it 24 kids either way it was a ridiculous amount and my brain can't take that amount but she had alot of twin births apparently.

 

[Jesusfreak101]

Okay we having fun we went to tractor supply and now at sonic the heb the mask aren't required and with four kids non of them would wear them so yeah. Costco claims its now their policy to require that you wear a mask i am thinking then i require you give me a refund on my membership as my kids won't be wearing masks and neither will I sorry.

 

[thistlebloom]

I'm not going to Costco now because I'm not buying into the mask hysteria.
My local grocery store is getting all my business now.

Went to the feed store last week and got in my favorite checkers line. I told her it was refreshing to see that all the employees were not masked and gloved. She replied that the owners never required it. She also said that she has triage nurses and a coroner that come through her line and they never wear masks. So that means something to me.

 

[Jesusfreak101]

Got the two gosling sold. Met the person at our normal feed store. They stuck me as either overly nice or very supsious. They wanted me to come over to help the figure out the best place for the gosling and I did not respond to that cause not happening another reason i was like nope was they had gone nuts over my kids eyes (they all four have blue-green eyes like me, dh has Carmelly brown eye i like Carmel) and how cute they were to the point I had red flags and did not want them over here and I would never go to someone house i don't know with my babies don't care nope. After dh got home told him what happened and he agreed that i wasn't being crazy. Got more seeds planted. You know chickens apparently like Swiss chard to much so i had to plant some more along with spanich, cucumber, herbs, also got pumpkin, corn, cantaloupe, watermelon. Some i was able to get heirlooms for others i had to settle but i did not settle on the corn i found the sweet yellow organic corn seed i like. I grown them in the past and they did well. I grown the plan corn seeds as well and those where all very weak plants and I did not care for them. So it was either that or the g-90 corn and can't make me not happening. Anyways so got most seeds planted. Need to plant the watermelon, canterlop, corn and pumpkin left. The kids love it. Plus give me time to enjoy my self the 2 year old loves to tell the seeds night night as we tuck them in bed lol aka bury the seeds. He also blows them kiss cause love makes the grow lol. My kids are fun. The two older got to buy some things at HEB with their money. Ds1 got water guns, dd1 got hair bows and fancy hair ties with butterflies. She now wants water guns so she working to be able to buy them. It's called motivation lol. They get paid a small amount for easy extra jobs like giving the pigs the pig bucket(kitchen scraps) over the fence is worth a nickle or picking up trash in the yard is worth a dollar(have to fill the bag) ect. They made 5 dollars each for washing dad's (dh) truck. So they are learning how that works. They don't get paid for chore they have to do. Like room, laundry, vacuuming and ect. Dd1 had wanted SNOWBALL as a pet which was fine after she had her she didn't take care of her then wanted to give her back i said that fine but then you won't get her back ok she said so she was mine again i breed her now there are babies she wanted her back so she could sale the babies i told her no that she would have to earn her back and the current litter was mine and If after she earned her bacj she wanted to breed her thats fine until then oh well.

 

[thistlebloom]

That's creepy about the people who bought your goslings. If you even get a hint of a red flag you are right to leave fast.

Sounds like your garden is getting bigger and bigger, lol.

 

[farmerjan]

I love the way you have reasoned things out to the kids as far as taking care of the animals and all. We got an allowance for our "regular chores" when I was a kid..... and we had to do them daily or however often the agreement was, or we got docked..... and we could earn a little extra for somethings too. Yes, it teaches responsibility, gives incentives, and they learn to even manage money as to how much things cost and how much they have and that if you don't have enough you have to wait to buy things.

Kudos to you for teaching them responsibility and money management.....

 

[Jesusfreak101]

It is lol i also have celery and carrot ends started in the house lol i told my dh that i need more garden spots lol. He shook his head and laughed i might be having to much fun lol.
I have the calf trained to come up, stop, back up lift her hoofs for trimming and her to stand with weight on her back lol my dd2 will sit on her with me right there and she won't move. I am thinking maybe saddle training her

 

[thistlebloom]

Good job on ground working your calf!