Animals
- Still Weeding After All These Weeks!
I have been spending the last couple of weeks getting the gardens in shapein anticipation of an "Open Farm" day we are having this Saturday.We have invited Hubbs' co-workers for a day of picnicking, farm tours,hay rides, fishing, etc...just in case...
- Last Minute Chores
These past couple of days have been filled with last minute chores. (We are leaving for vacation tomorrow.) In preparation, I have been cleaning chicken houses, moving hay, filling feed bins...just generally getting everything organized for our help to...
- Feline Barn Games
This morning, while I was cleaning manure out of our dry lot in front of the barn I was treated to a hilarious kitty game. It seems that our frisky TomTom loves to burrow in piles of hay that are put out for the horses. At one point, TomTom had just...
- 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,...
- Cleaning House
Well, it is the middle of February and soon time for the Eastern Bluebirds to return for nesting. We spent a part of this morning cleaning out all of our nesting boxes in preparation for their arrival. Old, dilapidated boxes were replaced with freshly...
Animals
TomTom the Omnipresent
Today I received a couple of calls wondering if everything is ok at Bee Haven Acres. This question came about because of my obvious lack of blog posts these last couple of days. Yes! Everything at Bee Haven Acres is hunkey-dorey (is that really a word?). Construction is coming along great...it looks like move-in is scheduled for 2 weeks from now. As a result of the last minute push to finish, I have been very busy helping out with finishing touches around the house. Farm chores, like mowing, cleaning pastures, feeding animals, weeding, tending gardens takes up what little time is left after construction duties.
It seems his favorite activity is hanging out with the horses. You'd think that such a diminutive cat would be wary of giant animals such as horses. Not the case with TomTom. He lounges on top of their hay piles as they eat and if they get too close....a bat across their nose keeps them in line.
So, bear with us....I will post when I am able. But I fear that until we get through moving, posting may be a bit irregular. I will try to keep up.
I did want to share a few pictures with you of our barn kitty, TomTom. I call him TomTom the Omnipresent. It seems that no matter where farm chores take me, he is always there. Sometimes I fear there may be more than one of him! He has a rather busy schedule and makes his regular rounds of all the animals....the chickens, the goats, the bluebird houses. Oh if only I had a picture of his antics on the bluebird houses. Picture, if you will, King Kong on the top of the Empire State Building....swatting at fighter planes with his arms as he desperately holds on. Then take that image and transplant Tom Tom on the top of the bluebird houses....standing on his hind legs swatting at the birds who are dive bombing him to protect their domain. Pretty comical sight!! Fortunately, he never catches any of them....but he does like to reach his paw into their nesting house and pull out the downy feathers that line their nests.
It seems his favorite activity is hanging out with the horses. You'd think that such a diminutive cat would be wary of giant animals such as horses. Not the case with TomTom. He lounges on top of their hay piles as they eat and if they get too close....a bat across their nose keeps them in line."Oh, oh yea, that's good....a little to the left, please!"
- Still Weeding After All These Weeks!
I have been spending the last couple of weeks getting the gardens in shapein anticipation of an "Open Farm" day we are having this Saturday.We have invited Hubbs' co-workers for a day of picnicking, farm tours,hay rides, fishing, etc...just in case...
- Last Minute Chores
These past couple of days have been filled with last minute chores. (We are leaving for vacation tomorrow.) In preparation, I have been cleaning chicken houses, moving hay, filling feed bins...just generally getting everything organized for our help to...
- Feline Barn Games
This morning, while I was cleaning manure out of our dry lot in front of the barn I was treated to a hilarious kitty game. It seems that our frisky TomTom loves to burrow in piles of hay that are put out for the horses. At one point, TomTom had just...
- 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,...
- Cleaning House
Well, it is the middle of February and soon time for the Eastern Bluebirds to return for nesting. We spent a part of this morning cleaning out all of our nesting boxes in preparation for their arrival. Old, dilapidated boxes were replaced with freshly...