ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal

[Roll farms]

I'd just about decided to put some eggs under our broody cochin, then 'something' attacked her and knocked the broody out of her.

As if 200 eggs in the incubator isn't enough....

 

[elevan]

I wish something would knock the broody out of Hershey. She's the one who brooded and squished 2 of the ducklings leaving me to take the last one from her. Then she kept sitting so when Helga's last guinea egg needed a little more time I stuck it under Hershey to finish. She hatched it out, dried it up and then abandoned it. I gave it to Helga and now Hershey is back to sitting. She doesn't have her own nest though and keeps trying to steal others. Last night I fought with her to get her onto a new nest...didn't work. She's currently sitting next to the broody EE who is the only one who will tolerate her in the box together. Generally she's sitting on other nests when the other broodys get off to do daily business.

 

[daisychick]

I have 2 Old English game hens that are broody. These girls are tiny, like the size of a big Robin. They wait until all the big girls lay eggs and then go try and sit on them. So when I go to get eggs I see this tiny chicken sitting on a pile of eggs. They can only cover about 3 eggs, but think they have them all hidden from me. Silly birds!

 

[elevan]

 

[elevan]

Took some pictures this afternoon.

4 years ago before my Dad got sick he started making a fountain for my mom. Then he got sick and didn't finish it. When he passed away 3 years ago we had a family get together to celebrate Dad's life. We asked that family / friends bring a plant for a memorial garden and for them to help plant it.

Here's some pics of the garden getting it's start that day (after everyone finished the fountain and pond):

And here's that same garden today. It needs some weeding but it's filled in wonderfully and we've added plants to it every year. I'm feeling kind of sentimental about it because the 3 year anniversary of Dad's passing is in a few weeks.

 

[HankTheTank]

Pretty garden! I wish I had the motivation/patience for one

 

[redtailgal]

What a lovely memorial to your dad!

its beautiful!

 

[elevan]

Gardens are my Mom's passion. I tuck a few herb plants here and there though


This garden is right outside our front door

And I'm finally getting around to uploading these 2 of K (from when he first got his "Pink" stuff)

We had a moment yesterday when we were out about and he was all decked out in his pink clothes. A woman mentioned that Pink was her favorite color too. She mouthed over K's head to ask me if he was a boy or a girl. As I mouthed back "boy" I had a terror crinkled up in my belly as I always do. My fear was misplaced. She went on and on about how she's so glad that parents now adays (an older woman) raise their kids to be comfortable in their own skin and to have the confidence to wear what they feel comfortable in. She praised me over and over. It felt good and I almost started crying. Turns out that her son is gay. K is identified as transgender at this time. We're letting him be whoever he feels comfortable being. Empowerment is something that I believe strongly in.

Questions about him make me very nervous though. I fear the day when someone has something negative to say. I just don't know what my reaction will be and I guess that is what scares me the most.

 

[redtailgal]

I agrree. Let kids be comfortable in there own skin. Color is just that a color.

I hate to hear someone telling a boy "Pink is for girls", and I hate to hear someone say "that child will be gay because he wears pink".

He's just a little boy who likes pink. AND he is an AWFULLY cute little boy at that!

When the day comes that someone asks about it tell them that. He is a little boy who likes pink! Then pointedly ask them WHY they felt the need to invade your and his privacy.

I hope that prejudice doesnt run as deep up there as it does here. Where I live, I would be tarred and feathered for letting a boy wear pink, and well, I would be afraid to use the term "transgendered" here as well. There is a HUGE stigma attached with it and around here, any person with that stigma is shunned and tormented. I fear that some of the "different" children around here will be forced into the very lifestyle that society is condemning them of, simply because of the stigma.

I hate such narrowmindedness.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Emily you rock! Nuff said!