Goatgurl - life goes on at someday farm

[goatgurl]

@Bruce she goes barefoot all the time, when she's not barefoot she's wearing those vibrams weird little toe shoe things. what can I say, she's the baby, gotta love her, lol. and yes I will make sure to include some of his pictures and things in our WWII display, just gonna need to rearrange a few things. just hurt my heart that's all.
now i'm just showing out a bit. this is a rock that I shaped and polished and Str#1 did the silver work on. I think it turned out really nice. she always does a good job. click on the pic to enlarge it so you can see the detail.
'yotes were singing loud tonight. sometimes, like tonight they are so close it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand on end. i'm so grateful for big barky dogs.
only other thing of importance is that my black hen that has been sitting on 15 eggs for the past almost 3 weeks decided to abandon her nest yesterday. when I found them last evening they were stone cold, did I mention they were due to start hatching tomorrow. and I already had them promised to someone. stupid bird. that's strike one for that old biddy. nothing else new, couple of the ewes are starting to look like 55 gallon drums with legs, won't be as lone as it has been. anxious for babies. youall take care

 

[Mike CHS]

I saw and disposed of one coyote yesterday that was brazenly pacing on our neighbors property that borders our chicken pen.

Your designs just keep looking better all of the time so show out all you feel like.

 

[RollingAcres]

as some of you may remember I started to work a couple of months ago at a local little museum and have really enjoyed it. today an elderly lady came in to donate some articles that were her brothers. he had been killed in WWII, their parents had passed, he had no children and she brought his things to the museum for display so he wouldn't be forgotten. among the things were pictures of him as a child with his parents,in his uniform, and pictures of his father and mother receiving his silver star and purple heart medals from the post commander at Camp Chaffee. she also brought the telegram that his parents received to inform them that he was killed in action as well as the letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt thanking them for his service. touched my heart and made me sad for that family. his whole life in a little flat box.

Awww...that's nice and sad at the same time. I'm glad she brought her late brother's things to the museum so his story can be heard by others.

 

[RollingAcres]

Nice job with the rock! It looks nice!

 

[goatgurl]

like a lot of you we have been enduring the cold of the past few days. pond frozen over, ducks confused, walking around mumbling like it was my fault they couldn't go for a swim.
found one of the nests where the ducks have started laying, yumm-o. had fried duck eggs and toast for supper last night. love me some duck eggs.
second broody hen is still on her nest, yea!! chicks were due to start hatching on Tuesday but I guess its been so cold the little things are refusing to come out. when I candled them night before last about 3/4 were viable and as of this evening only one has started to peep. hopefully with the cold they have just been slow.
worked on the WWII display today to incorporate the pictures, etc of the gentleman who's sister brought his things in the other day. I think its going to look nice when i'm done.
and this is who isn't living behind my house anymore. not great big, about 80 lbs but is going to be the honored guest at my friend wr's super bowl party after resting for a while in the smoker. i'm thinking its gonna be tasty what do you think?

 

[Southern by choice]

I need to go back and catch up.
Heading out now (milk test tonight) but maybe this evening.
Miss you. Haven't talked in a while now.

 

[RollingAcres]

worked on the WWII display today to incorporate the pictures, etc of the gentleman who's sister brought his things in the other day. I think its going to look nice when i'm done.

Can't wait to see it. I hope you take some pics for us when the display is done.

this is who isn't living behind my house anymore. not great big, about 80 lbs but is going to be the honored guest at my friend wr's super bowl party after resting for a while in the smoker. i'm thinking its gonna be tasty what do you think?

I bet it will taste mighty good! What time is the Superbowl party?

 

[Bruce]

80 pounds should make some good eating at the party!

 

[Baymule]

And here I'm fixin' chicken wings, chips and dip. Can I come to your SB party?

 

[goatgurl]

now's a good time to tell you @Baymule but you but you would have been more than welcome to come to wr's to watch football commercials and enjoy the piggy. he was cooked/smoked to perfection.
first picture is for fun simply because this poor hen, who is a great broodie and mama hen has had a really long molt and looks like the dogs played with her. she is just too pitiful. the 2nd pic is of the current mama hen, she hatched 7 of 11 eggs and is taking such good care of her biddies. just what I need more chicks but hey, what the heck.
and first let me apologize for the quality of the pictures but it was the best I could do at the time, going to try to get better ones later. first up is carmalitalambalot with her twins. all those spots, to cute. and next is carmies grandma cookie with her set of triplets. this is my first set of triplet lambs, they are so tiny but I guess they have good reason. I was just telling str#1 the other day that I hoped cookie did ok 'cause she is either 7 or 8 this year. can't find the papers that have her dob on them. I just hope she can handle feeding triplets. got two more to lamb this year, see I have cut back a lot on the number of animals I have. have one goat due in 2 weeks and the other 3 still have a month and a half to go. junior, the puppy I kept, went out to check out the lambs and marco put him on the ground screaming like a little girl. he's like dang dad, I just wanted to look. nope, not having that young whipper snapper around his lambs. he's much more protective than last year, age has a way of showing you the more important things of life.
carmie cookie @Mike CHS if you notice carmies lambs are down on their pasterns. I always give my goats bo-se before they kid so the youngsters pop out strong but have seen that selenium will cause a ewe to abort. have you had these problems? @Baymule ? and what do you do about it? and the last picture of the day

there has been a murder here at someday farm. someone killed Barbie and the pony she rode in on. have not a clue where these came from. have never had the dogs go off the place, the closest neighbor is over 1/4 mile away and even if they did none of my neighbors have little girls. the only people anywhere around are older, the youngest have 10 and 13 year old boys. and the mystery continues
youall take care.