Happy Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day!

 

 



This morning when going out to warm the truck this is what I was met by. It was so beautiful and so fitting for the day, so I am taking this moment to recognize all those that have made the ultimate sacrifice to allow us all to have the freedom to do what we please. I believe that we tend to forget as a Nation what people have done to keep our Nation free and that saddens me so. Take a moment today to remember those people .

Thank you!

 

Busy week here on the farm!

 

I'm starting to believe that no matter how much I would like to sit on my bum and relaxe that it will just not happen.

 

 

On Thursday I went out to "The Matthews Living Farm Museum" , to help with their old timey day in the garden area. Local schools came out to see what it would be like to have to live in the 1900's. It was fun, but I was so tired by the end of the day, oh yes and sunburned. I had no idea that it was going to be that sunny, note to self put on sunscreen no matter what!

 

 

A friend had called us about a woman who wanted a shed torn down, so we jumped all over it! We haven't had the money to get the lumber needed for the milking shed or the Blacksmith shop for my husband, so with a little hard work, we should have enough to do one or the other. I'm so excited to have this lumber.

 

 

Since it is a Holiday weekend there are so many yard sales happening, so we took advantage of that and bought some glass to do some more feeders. I have a whole lot of glass cutting to do, but I really can't wait to get them together, it has been a fun medium to work in. All about recycle reuse!

 

 

Anyone who has been following this Blog has learned of my love for glass and ceramic chickens, well a friend found me this weekend the pepper shaker and just yesterday I found the matching sugar bowl and creamer! I'm on the hunt for the salt shaker. Plus I found the stack able tins in the background. Just a great color so I felt the need to have it.

 

The never ending addiction to Pyrex and Fire King glassware!

 

Ms. Ayla has started to collect glass and ceramic birds. She found this owl and feel in love, I'm not telling her that it is a Whiskey decanter.

So this weekend we found a lot of little treasures as a family.

 

The Garden!

 

Cranberry Acre is full of life this Spring!

The Orchard is filling out nicely and all the fruit tress but one pear tree, is full of fruit. I'm so excited on how it looks.

Our garden is also growing nicely. The potato patch is very full and very green. My tomatoes did not do well at all so I had to buy some plants from a friend at Wagon Wheel Farm, to replace my patch. They grow such lovely plants there at their farm.

My peas and beans are poking their heads out of the ground also!

Good healthy looking plants!

We have a new tenant in the Orchard area, a Mourning Dove couple. They are the funniest birds to watch. They try to land on the same spot together and end up pushing one off the fence. The bird bath has become their favorite hang out but they never seem to land just right. They are a clumsy little pair of birds, but are very cute.

 

The Farm!

 

The babies are a growing! I can't believe everyone is getting their big girl feathers, it just seems so soon. I forgot how fast they grow up.

Chocolate is just so cute with her big girl feathers and seems to be developing ear tuffs!

Ms. Coal with her picture of the day shot! She was trying to figure out what I was doing without getting to close. She just couldn't handle it and had to investigate me and the camera. She has turned out to be the boss in the relationship of these two. If Coal does not go Copper will not go either.

 

 

Ms. Copper, she has turned out to be a calm and quite little chicken. That is, until you go to pick her up. She then turns into a wild animal, but calms down after being picked up and rocked like a baby. It just so funny how each personality starts to grow from awkward chick to confident chicken!

 

 

Silver did not go for our morning stroll, but Ms. Red did! To my surprise she walked around with me while I was in the pasture. She has started to hang out with the chickens more and not with the Three Stooges, maybe she has figured out that she is a chicken!

 

 

I looked out this morning from my kitchen window and did not see a goat on the goat house, but a chicken. I guess Ms. Silver wanted to know what all the Hub Bub was about being on top of the house. She has watched the goats for the past few weeks fighting over this spot, so I guess she thought it was her turn.

 

Lazy, lazy goats! The goats have a new sleeping area which happens to be the new fence line and the gate. When you try to get into the pasture usually you have to push a goat with the gate . This time it was Luther who got the ride with the gate.

 

Ms. Griffin seems to still love her spot under the dryer vent.

 

To my surprise we have a nest! I do not know if they are fertile, but Larry and Curly are both laying eggs here, instead of leaving them around the pasture. I guess we will see.

 

Larry and Curly

 

Last Fall "The Matthews Living Farm Museum", gave me some of the Sage from the garden and this year it gave me these pretty flowers. I have never seen Sage bloom and was excited to see it. The humming birds have just found it's flowers also and they seem to like it.

 

The Look!

Has anyone ever got that from your cat? Mr. Bayne while I was taking pictures of the flowers was head bumping my leg, I was ignoring him until after I was done, so I got "The Look". Cats are great for this. He has become a master at The Look.

 

I leave the Blog with our matriarch Ms. Silver sunbathing this morning!

I still say life as a Cranberry Acre chicken is the life!