Eggs anyone?
The Girls are in Full Production
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Eggs anyone?
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HALLOWEEN Came Early
Weaning the Calves
I suppose this really isn’t that same as sending your babies off to school for the first time, but it does strike a cord in a mom’s heart.
The kids (calves) were so scared they were trembling. But hard as it is, it must be done. Cows are terrible about never weaning their babies. I have seen calves as old as a year old still nursing, another younger calf nursing on the same mother and the mom pregnant with another calf. Weaning the baby just doesn’t seem to happen in cow world.
Cows are the true “earth mother”, and hard as it is, babies do need to grow up.
In the strain of trying to follow the babies this cow broke the top fence by trying to jump over it-Bad Cow!
Farm Sales
One thing about farm sales it is a great place to socialize, even if you don’t buy. Of course if you do buy then it is a great place to find something cool.
The sad thing about farm sales, it also means someone is leaving, being bought out, died, or a subdivision pushed them out.
Gateway, Colorado
The man who owns the Discovery channel bought up several acres of land (300 or so) in a canyon 1.5 hours from our house.
Once he bought the land he decided to create a resort and to showcase his car collection.
http://www.gatewaycanyons.com/experience.php
There you can see lots of restored cars, plus this concept car that he bought for $3.24 million!
Transportation
Off we go to fix fence, down the hill and around the whole place. There is a hole somewhere, for the electric fencer isn’t working.
It’s Not Junk!
Although, these look like something that ‘should go to the scrape pile’, they are projects waiting to happen!
The two grain trucks are Terry’s Dad’s. They gradually became Terry’s over the years, the red one given as a gift from Jack to Terry for a birthday present; the green one given to Terry has an inheritance after Jack’s passing.
The hotrod was the first truck Terry bought ever so long ago and was the first truck I got to ride in while we were “court’n”. He is sprucing it up to go faster, look sharper, ……zoom!
Now that Terry is retired (since May of this year) those old cars and trucks he has been collecting can now –at least- move to the front as possible winter filling projects.
My Second Tag
The other tag has come from the tile lady @ http://daughterm.blogspot.com/
So, I am supposed to list 7 random or weird facts about myself and then pass it on (This is harder than you might think)
1. I have written two books on people in my Genealogy line. (I probably will never publish them, but they were wonderful to research and write.) One is set in 1600 America and the other one about my Grandfather Thomas and my youth.)
2. I love eating apples for breakfast, especially caramel apples
3. My favorite bird is a chicken, and my favorite mammals are dogs and cats
4. I used to tie black plastic from the ensilage pits onto my arms and legs, stand in the wind and make believe I was a kite
5. My favorite book in the entire world is Hanta Yo; I have read it 18 times. I just finished the eighteenth time last month.
6. My favorite colors are Light blue and Lavender, which becomes Periwinkle when I can find it.
7. When I was thirteen my parents moved us to 100 acre fruit orchard
I’m Been Tagged–Not Once, but Twice. So Here Goes!
The trees are on the route I take to work everyday. Hope you enjoy!
My Six Quirks:
1. I love— water on newly worked ground, the fall, spring, being a farmer (wife)
2. I embarrass –my husband, because I like to give him a big hug or kiss even in public
3. I am a recovering—politician. I ran and won a seat on the school board for six years. Life is real now!
4. I love — Dr. Pepper. My mother’s family is from Texas, every year we traveled to Texas in June for a month long visit. I, personally, could NOT wait until we hit the border and I could finally have a Dr. Pepper! P.S. I think it tasted better then, but I still drink it now.
5. I carry – a schoolbag full of “toil”, just like students, every day from work.
6. I cried — when my best friend and sister died in November, my beloved Grandmother passed in March the very next year, then my Daddy left this earth in September of that same year, and my Dear Momma joined him 10 months later. It was the hardest time of my life.
Oh the list goes on and on…
Now that I have spilled my guts, here are the rules:
Link to the person who tagged you http://farsideoffifty.blogspot.com/
Mention these rules on your blog
Tell about your six quirks
Tag six bloggers to do the same http://happencrew.blogspot.com/; http://cladelles.blog.sohu.com/;http://hafdozenreasons.blogspot.com/; http://www.littlehouseinthesuburbs.com/; http://www.ruralvillager.blogspot.com/
Leave them a comment to let them know that you have tagged them
I will answer the next tag on the following post.
Five Months Old
The first eggs have started to appear; it sure was exciting to go to the chicken house, after work yesterday, and find these little eggs.
They were laid everywhere, under the roost, next to the water can, by the door, not in the nesting boxes. But what the heck…it takes time to catch on to what you need to do when whatever you are doing is the FIRST Time!
