Animals
- Powerless
It always brings a smile to my facewhen I see my equines sleeping in their dry lot. Horses and donkeys take many cat-naps during the day while standing up.It's only when they feel completely safe and secure that they allow themselvesthe pleasure...
- Chicks, Tea, And A Tutorial
It's Friday, already.Can you believe it?Is it me, or does time fly by even more quickly once Spring arrives? It was a great week...warm temperatures and thunderstorms magically turned the grass green overnight.I swear, one day it was brown, the next...
- Weekend Recap
I am writing this post at 10:00 PM Sunday evening.The last several days have been a bit of a blur.So many good things have happened here on the farm.I thought I would share the highlights with you. First and foremost, we brought Tyler Andrew (first...
- All Creatures, Great And Small
This weekend brought with it a little cold snap here on the farm. With temperatures dipping down to 18 degrees Friday night, we had to cover the emerging plants in our garden. The seedlings in the greenhouse were protected from the cold by...
- Garden Party
The really warm weather that we had last week may be gone for now, but signs of Spring still remain. This past weekend Hubbs and I finished moving oak bark mulch into the vegetable garden. (A big thanks to our adopted "son" Tim for moving...
Animals
Mother's Day Mayhem
I hope that all of you, wherever you may be, had a wonderful Mother's Day.
I would love to say that mine was uneventful...
a day of much deserved rest.
But....as luck would have it, that was not the case.
Yesterday's weather was quite severe.
We had high winds...
winds that whipped though my garden snapping off tomato
plants at the stem and wilting the pepper plants.
The wind knocked over a tree which hit our electrical transformer,
thus shutting off our power for about 18 hours.
This meant the power was also out in the duckling house.
Hubbs set up a portable generator to hook up their heat lamp;
and then got up in the middle of the night to make sure
it had enough fuel to last.
This meant the power was also out in the duckling house.
Hubbs set up a portable generator to hook up their heat lamp;
and then got up in the middle of the night to make sure
it had enough fuel to last.
We ended up moving them to the duck house by the pond
early Sunday morning.
early Sunday morning.
Their screened window had to be closed because of the cold wind.
But, inside their little hut was toasty warm....
This will be their permanent shelter.
When they are bigger, they will have access to the pond.
Then each night, they will return to this hut to sleep....
safe from the reach of predators.
Last night's predictions were for frost and freezing temperatures.
This necessitated taking some action in the garden to protect
the remaining warm weather vegetables.
We covered a number of the garden boxes with plastic
and covered the taller plants with plastic pots...held down with rocks.
Hopefully, when I take stock this morning I will
have suffered no more losses.
Just when we thought we could relax,
we looked over at the barn and realized that
the "Bigs" had escaped the dry lot.
The gate to the dry lot stood wide open...no ponies in sight.
After setting off on a search, we eventually found them
grazing on tall grass near the woods behind Becky's barn...
trying to hide behind her mulch pile.
I can just imagine them...galloping down the road...
the whole world ahead of them....infinite grass to eat.
They must have been gone for some time, because neither of them
was difficult to catch.
Here comes Hubbs with a very tired Donnie...
Bad ponies!
Whew... I am glad it's Monday and it's back to business as usual!
PS. We celebrated Mother's Day on Friday and Saturday. All of the kids were home. A Saturday visit from my Mom added to the celebration. Great food, lots of laughs, a wonderful Friday night bonfire made for the best Mother's Day ever. We should have ended the weekend on Saturday night, however...and skipped Sunday!
- Powerless
It always brings a smile to my facewhen I see my equines sleeping in their dry lot. Horses and donkeys take many cat-naps during the day while standing up.It's only when they feel completely safe and secure that they allow themselvesthe pleasure...
- Chicks, Tea, And A Tutorial
It's Friday, already.Can you believe it?Is it me, or does time fly by even more quickly once Spring arrives? It was a great week...warm temperatures and thunderstorms magically turned the grass green overnight.I swear, one day it was brown, the next...
- Weekend Recap
I am writing this post at 10:00 PM Sunday evening.The last several days have been a bit of a blur.So many good things have happened here on the farm.I thought I would share the highlights with you. First and foremost, we brought Tyler Andrew (first...
- All Creatures, Great And Small
This weekend brought with it a little cold snap here on the farm. With temperatures dipping down to 18 degrees Friday night, we had to cover the emerging plants in our garden. The seedlings in the greenhouse were protected from the cold by...
- Garden Party
The really warm weather that we had last week may be gone for now, but signs of Spring still remain. This past weekend Hubbs and I finished moving oak bark mulch into the vegetable garden. (A big thanks to our adopted "son" Tim for moving...