Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Baymule]

Mortgage Lifters make big beautiful tomatoes with that perfect sandwich slice!

 

[farmerjan]

Are the "running around " chicks the same size? Can you sneak them under her at night so she will raise howevr many there are?
Tomatoes, and in fact, all the garden pictures look real nice.

Next year for me having a garden again, I hope.

 

[Mike CHS]

The kittens are still skittish but when I go down the drive they may run out of the covered area but they only go to the side of the drive and sit down to watch what the two legged critters are doing.

 

[Bruce]

Careful starting that tractor up!

 

[Mike CHS]

I pop the hood whenever I plan to use it.

Careful starting that tractor

 

[Baymule]

Those kittens are keeping mice from chewing wires. Kitty Patrol!!

 

[Mike CHS]

The hen is bringing her chicks outside the house now but as expected, she is keeping them away from the others.

The female cat will still trot away as I approach but she is only going into the treeline then laying down. The kittens will just stay where they are if all I'm doing is driving by in the Ranger and when I put feed out for them this morning, two of them were already coming across the driveway before I even got off the concrete.

I would love to get a picture of one of my favorite events but it's not likely. That would be the reaction a lamb gets when they finally get tame enough to realize that hand moving across their back actually feels good and then they don't want to walk away.

We have a lot to do outside today so I made a big pot of Gumbo for lunch. I prefer mine more traditional and thicker but Teresa prefers it with more broth soooooooo more broth it is.

 

[Beekissed]

I would love to get a picture of one of my favorite events but it's not likely. That would be the reaction a lamb gets when they finally get tame enough to realize that hand moving across their back actually feels good and then they don't want to walk away.

JUST experienced this recently with one of our first years....she had been shy and we could never get a hand on her, until not long ago when she finally got a peanut butter dog biscuit, snatched out of the mob. It was like a light went on in her head! She started getting more friendly, letting me touch her face now and again, then when we sorted sheep, she let us shear some of her excess wool without a bit of a fight! Now she lets us scratch her back for her now and again, closing her eyes and standing still. All that time, a stranger, and now she's one of my favorite sheep....a very sweet, docile girl.

I wish I could get to know all of them that way, but some take the biscuits and only get close when they think you have one. She decided we weren't so bad after all. She and Old Rose are the only ones we can give back rubs to out of the whole flock.

 

[Mike CHS]

JUST experienced this recently with one of our first years....she had been shy and we could never get a hand on her, until not long ago when she finally got a peanut butter dog biscuit, snatched out of the mob. It was like a light went on in her head! She started getting more friendly, letting me touch her face now and again, then when we sorted sheep, she let us shear some of her excess wool without a bit of a fight! Now she lets us scratch her back for her now and again, closing her eyes and standing still. All that time, a stranger, and now she's one of my favorite sheep....a very sweet, docile girl.

I wish I could get to know all of them that way, but some take the biscuits and only get close when they think you have one. She decided we weren't so bad after all. She and Old Rose are the only ones we can give back rubs to out of the whole flock.

I'm still working on two of the lambs (8 total) but even those two get curious. Of the 17 adults, two will come for a cracker but don't like to be touched and I never push it. The rest are literally too tame so when we work them in the handling area, Teresa has to run them into the chute since they just look at me when I try to move them. If I am working them by myself I have to use one of the dogs to run them in.

 

[Beekissed]

I'm still working on two of the lambs (8 total) but even those two get curious. Of the 17 adults, two will come for a cracker but don't like to be touched and I never push it. The rest are literally too tame so when we work them in the handling area, Teresa has to run them into the chute since they just look at me when I try to move them. If I am working them by myself I have to use one of the dogs to run them in.

I wish mine were like that!