ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal

[elevan]

I love Cannolis!

My hips do too. They hold them forever.

Mine too!

I got addicted to them when I was an executive assistant and one of the management team would bring them to me as a bribe when he needed a favor.

 

[autumnprairie]

I would love a true cannoli can;t find them in Arkansas

 

[elevan]

I am WORE OUT! We decided to utilize a portion of our barn in a better fashion that seems to always collect water. We took about a quarter of the area and built a pen for our pig so she'd have a bigger indoor space than the tiny little area she has now. We finished that. Then we decided to use about a third of the area for our turkey pen (we were originally gonna build a hoop coop but with DH losing his job we have to use what we got). We're building a raised floor making good use of some pallets. We had to stop that project because our drills ran out of juice, so we'll take that back up day after tomorrow. I don't have a fancy barn but I have good pens for my critters and I've been able to re-purpose all kinds of materials to make my pens / coops / barns.

Tomorrow is Mother's day and also the one year anniversary of my Grandpa's death. I really hate that the date lined up like that. My aunts decided that we should have a big get together to take Grandma's mind off of it. I have a feeling that it'll have the opposite effect and she's be remembering the big get together that we had after Grandpa's service. Hope I'm wrong on that, but Grandma Emily and I are a lot alike and I know that's how it would hit me. Anyway, I'm gonna make another loaf of the Apricot Date Chia Bread like I made for K's class to take tomorrow.

DH and I nailed down the date for our vow renewal and his early birthday party wrapped into one big bash. It'll be June 23, which is only 2 days past our anniversary. We're gonna have it potluck style as well, with a watermelon "cake" as the centerpiece. And a bonfire in the evening. We're writing our own renewal vows, which makes DH a little apprehensive. But it's been 15 years, he should be able to figure out what to say right?

 

[redtailgal]

I'm sure he'll figure out something. Of course, my hubby would say something like "i vow to not leave my fishin' bait on the top shelf of the fridge anymore so it wont drip in addition to all that stuff I said the first time around."

Hopefully, your hubby has more tact than mine. If it works out well, let me know, I'll have your hubby give mine lessons!

Give your grandma Emily a big hug and tell her you love her....it will make tomorrow all worth it to her.

 

[Roll farms]

My FIL passed away on my mom's birthday, which also happened to fall on Easter that year. So we are reminded when we mention my mom's b-day and every Easter (even though the date changes). I *hate* when bad things happen on 'good' days that dampen them.

((hug)) to your family as you remember your grandpa. Hope being together helps you all.

 

[elevan]

Regarding good dates that bad things happen on....my wedding anniversary is June 21. We were gonna renew our vows at our 10 year (2007) and my Dad had heart trouble a few weeks before and they scheduled him for a heart cath on that day so we cancelled our plans. He was diagnosed with leukemia on 6/17/2008. He was told that there was nothing more that they could do and that he was dying on 6/18/2009. I told DH that if Dad died on our anniversary that year that we were getting a divorce...he died on 6/23/2009. So it's kind of strange that we picked that date this year to renew our vows I guess.

 

[elevan]

I am so upset right now.

I walked into the coop to find a (at least a week old) chick dead - killed - right inside the door. This was NOT one of my chicks. It was NOT a chick from any of my broodys. I don't know where it came from. DH thinks that someone dropped it off into our field but that makes no sense...but finding it dead, obviously killed by my chickens inside the coop really upsets me.

 

[Sunny & the 5 egg layers]

I would think somebody would had to have dropped the chick off in (or around) your coop. If he wasn't from one of your broodys.

That is a very odd situation. I hope you figure out this mystery soon. I would be upset too.

 

[HankTheTank]

Maybe someone had the chick and couldn't take care of it, so they figured you could, and just put it in with your chickens. People used to do that when we had ducks and geese.

Hope you figure it out soon

 

[redtailgal]

We came home one day to find a cardboard box with 12 chicks inside it sitting in our driveway once.

They didnt even both to put them in the shade, so half of them were dead.

I never figured out where they came from, but it upset me.......made me angry.