Animals
- More Projects For Spring
Each spring we add to our bluebird houses. We now have about 21 bluebird houses scattered around the property. Every February Hubbs cleans the old nests out of the bluebird houses. Invariably one or two become home to some mice during...
- Playtime With Maddie
There seems to be no shortage of cute around the farm this week. Yesterday was nursery cleaning day. Becky and I mucked out the goat house and replaced the bedding with fresh clean hay. While we cleaned, the new kids played in the snow...
- Bluebirds Abound!
A few weeks ago, Jack hung an additional 10 bluebird boxes around the pastures. Eastern bluebird numbers decreased during the 60's and 70's, but bluebird box campaigns have helped to increase their numbers once again. That is quite evident around...
- Maddie The Gator Dog
Looking at this picture you might be fooled into thinking that Maddie loves to be close to me. Well, she does love me, but in actuality she is just lazy and would rather ride than walk!I suppose it is hard work to be a 140 pound Newfie. At least Maddie...
- Not-so-brave Maddie
It seems the horses and the dogs have a curiousity about each other. Ava and Moonbeam followed Maddie, our Newfie, as she walked the fence around the pasture. As soon as the horses got close to the fence, Maddie scrambled. She is 140 lbs of pure chicken!...
Animals
Not-So-Brave Maddie and Other Tales.......
This morning while cleaning the pastures, our Newfie, Maddie decided to keep us company and crawled under the pasture fence. Maddie is extremely wary of the horses, but her love for a breakfast of roadapples helps her to forget her fears. However, once she got close to us and realized how close to our pony she was, she quickly sought shelter in the gator. With barely enough room to squeeze her enormous body, she crawled into the front and stayed there through the remainder of the clean-up.
Two weeks ago we spent a part of a Satuday renovating the bluebird houses. I had posted a picture of one of our new houses ready to receive it's new inhabitants. Sadly, when we went back to check this box, we found that another bird has been working hard to enlarge the hole. This box is no longer bluebird worthy.
I am happy to report that we saw a pair of Eastern bluebirds checking out one of the other boxes. Hopefully, they will settle there; and the sparrows and starlings will leave them alone.
- More Projects For Spring
Each spring we add to our bluebird houses. We now have about 21 bluebird houses scattered around the property. Every February Hubbs cleans the old nests out of the bluebird houses. Invariably one or two become home to some mice during...
- Playtime With Maddie
There seems to be no shortage of cute around the farm this week. Yesterday was nursery cleaning day. Becky and I mucked out the goat house and replaced the bedding with fresh clean hay. While we cleaned, the new kids played in the snow...
- Bluebirds Abound!
A few weeks ago, Jack hung an additional 10 bluebird boxes around the pastures. Eastern bluebird numbers decreased during the 60's and 70's, but bluebird box campaigns have helped to increase their numbers once again. That is quite evident around...
- Maddie The Gator Dog
Looking at this picture you might be fooled into thinking that Maddie loves to be close to me. Well, she does love me, but in actuality she is just lazy and would rather ride than walk!I suppose it is hard work to be a 140 pound Newfie. At least Maddie...
- Not-so-brave Maddie
It seems the horses and the dogs have a curiousity about each other. Ava and Moonbeam followed Maddie, our Newfie, as she walked the fence around the pasture. As soon as the horses got close to the fence, Maddie scrambled. She is 140 lbs of pure chicken!...