Animals
Growth....it is a thing that happens....to just about everything. It always seems like there are ways to speed it up, but never ways to slow it down. Sometimes growth happens when we look away and sometimes right before our eyes.
Something else that grows quite insidiously is grass!! I never seem to finish the mowing around the farm. Yesterday I spent several hours mowing several fields and today I will spend several more finishing up. By the time the weekend arrives, it will all need to be done again!
- Epic Fail (or How My Green Thumb Turned Blue)
Yesterday I experienced Wedding Fail #1.It was an epic fail.Truly.In fact, I was so embarrassed by this epic fail, that I failed to take photographs. I'll explain.About 3 weeks ago I planted 16 tiny herb gardens that were going to be usedas table...
- The Magic Continues
I am happy to report that both Mama and her babies are doing well. Our sweet little girl has quieted down a bit. I swear each time I check on them, the little buckling is eating. In the next few days the weather is to get warmer,so these two will soon...
- What's Growing On
Leo update....I am so worried again about Leo.After looking better for a few days,he has taken a turn for the worse.He is coughing, and sneezing and has stopped eating again...is rapidly losing weight and has a hard nodule on his neck. I am taking him...
- Weekend Fun
It was a whirlwind weekend on the farm.We planted grass around the new indoor arena...no little task, I might add! Weekend guests... friends and family added to the fun.We took a trip to a local college town for dinner,and on the way stopped to visit...
- With A Little Help From Our Friends
This past weekend, one of our "kids" (actually now an adult), Amanda, came from college with 6 of her friends to lend a hand on the farm. All of these amazing young adults are students at a local Christian College, Messiah College. They arrived at our...
Animals
Growing Season
Growth....it is a thing that happens....to just about everything. It always seems like there are ways to speed it up, but never ways to slow it down. Sometimes growth happens when we look away and sometimes right before our eyes.
This past weekend, we were quite busy celebrating the growth of two of our kids (not goats this time). The twins both graduated from college this past weekend.... one from Penn State, one from Messiah College. Now our home nest is empty...all four kids have graduated over the past four years.
While we were gone, travelling from college to college, everything at the farm continued to grow. Our little chicks have tripled in size in one week. We have suffered no more mortalities...the remaining 26 seem to be thriving quite well. Here are just a few of them...the rest went running off to opposite corners of the henhouse...they are not very sociable.
If I had supernatural powers I would slow down the growth of things like children and grass and goats. And I would speed up the growth of the chicks and the gardens and the trees that we planted. But since I don't posess these powers, I will be content to watch each thing grow in its' own time. As the song says..... To every thing, turn, turn, turn......there is a season, turn, turn, turn.......and a time to every purpose under Heaven.
- Epic Fail (or How My Green Thumb Turned Blue)
Yesterday I experienced Wedding Fail #1.It was an epic fail.Truly.In fact, I was so embarrassed by this epic fail, that I failed to take photographs. I'll explain.About 3 weeks ago I planted 16 tiny herb gardens that were going to be usedas table...
- The Magic Continues
I am happy to report that both Mama and her babies are doing well. Our sweet little girl has quieted down a bit. I swear each time I check on them, the little buckling is eating. In the next few days the weather is to get warmer,so these two will soon...
- What's Growing On
Leo update....I am so worried again about Leo.After looking better for a few days,he has taken a turn for the worse.He is coughing, and sneezing and has stopped eating again...is rapidly losing weight and has a hard nodule on his neck. I am taking him...
- Weekend Fun
It was a whirlwind weekend on the farm.We planted grass around the new indoor arena...no little task, I might add! Weekend guests... friends and family added to the fun.We took a trip to a local college town for dinner,and on the way stopped to visit...
- With A Little Help From Our Friends
This past weekend, one of our "kids" (actually now an adult), Amanda, came from college with 6 of her friends to lend a hand on the farm. All of these amazing young adults are students at a local Christian College, Messiah College. They arrived at our...