purplequeenvt - Ivy Knoll Farm

[Southern by choice]

If I had a snuggie I would never get out of it!
I like the pattern, it is happy. The clothespin story is pretty cool. Funny how something so little can have such significance.
Glad to see your girl all healed up. The snow... Beautiful pics!
It looks so pretty but sooo cold. I am thermally challenged..can't take the cold.

 

[purplequeenvt]

If I had a snuggie I would never get out of it!
I like the pattern, it is happy. The clothespin story is pretty cool. Funny how something so little can have such significance.
Glad to see your girl all healed up. The snow... Beautiful pics!
It looks so pretty but sooo cold. I am thermally challenged..can't take the cold.

It has been really, really cold the past few days. Way too cold for me. But today was a balmy 20-something degrees. It felt almost tropical!

 

[purplequeenvt]

I just realized that lambs are due in a month! My birthday is 2/9 so maybe I'll get birthday lambs!

I went through all of the adult ewes today in order to get an idea of who is pregnant or not. 27 total adult ewes, 25 we are keeping, 2 culls. Out of the 25, 22 are bred and 3 are probably bred, but I'm still not 100%. They wouldn't hold still long enough. One would think they don't like me staring at their butts..... Lambing dates should be early Feb. to end of March, maybe into the 1st week of April.

Now I have to make sure I have all my lambing supplies and CD&T.

 

[Queen Mum]

Birthday babies. Yay for that!

 

[purplequeenvt]

I've been working on a new website all evening. Check it out! The link is in my signature. The site is still pretty basic, but it's a good start.

 

[marlowmanor]

New website looks good so far. Love all the lamb pictures from last year.

 

[jodief100]

Very nice. I love the chicken wearing bunny slippers.

 

[purplequeenvt]

Very nice. I love the chicken wearing bunny slippers.

Thanks! That slipper-wearing chicken is my little d'Uccle hen, Lola.

 

[purplequeenvt]

In addition to the website, I have also put together a Facebook page for our farm.....Smith Family Farm Facebook. Both are a work in progress, but the website is almost complete.

If you see anything that needs fixing (typo, grammar, layout, etc....) let me know!

 

[purplequeenvt]

My dad took today off from work to do stuff at home. He ended up spending a bunch of time on my car. It is a '98 Volvo station wagon that I bought last year. It was supposed to be inspected by the end of December 2012, but it needed some work done first. I was planning to bring it to the shop and have them fix the brakes and tailpipe and whatever else, but my dad is a do-it-yourself kind of guy which is all fine and dandy unless something needs to happen quickly. As he likes to say, "We're Smiths....we're not any good, but we're slow....." :/ Needless, I haven't been driving it anywhere since the first of the year. Except last night that is. I had a Bible study that I had to be at and all the other vehicles were already out. Thankfully it was all back roads (i.e. no police) and it was dark.

Anyway....my dad put new brakes on the front today (and then realized that the back brakes were the real problem), put my front license plate on, put in some screws to hold the dash board panel (under the steering wheel) in, and fixed the floppy rear view mirror. I took apart the back hatch so that we could replace the broken latch so that for the first time since I've owned this car I can actually use the back of my car. We then had to go to the Volvo dealer and the car parts store to get the new latch and the rear brakes. I'm excited that I may soon have a car that is in decent working order! It is such a blessing to have a dad that is able and willing to do stuff like this!

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A friend of mine had a litter of Jack Russell puppies recently. My sister is convinced she is getting one - she's not - so she's been visiting them a lot since they were born. The pups are now 6 weeks old and my sister brought them home for a socialization visit this evening. So cute! I took a couple pictures, but not many came out because the darn little things move too much. That and I was kind of busy petting them....

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Apparently I am taking a ballroom dance class tomorrow. A woman from church teaches ballroom to teens, but she occasionally does a class for "old" people. I've taken ballroom before and really liked it and I was planning to go to her class, but then the person that I thought I would go with (it is too awkward to go without a partner) had already found someone else. So then I thought that I just wouldn't go......I don't know most of the single guys my age at church and most guys find me intimidating, something to do with killing chickens and skinning sheep I think , but my friend just texted me to say that he found a partner for me, so I guess I have to go after all.