Remembering September 11th.

This Day is dedicated to remembering all those who gave there lives on September 11th. We will never forget. God Bless America!

LB Dutch Cock

Just a couple of pictures of my LB Dutch Bantam Cock. I can't wait to get him in his first show in October!

Oberhasli Doe!

I finally got an Oberhasli Doe! This is Camille, she is an 3 month old American Oberhasli. I purchased her from Indigo Run Oberhasli, the same breeder I purchased our buck Jack from.

Here is our Alpine/Kiko doe, DD and our Alpine/Oberhasli doe, Gabby. I'm really excited to breed both these does this year.

Here are the English Angora rabbits. We know have 7, a doe, buck and five kits.

We have Horses!

We have horses!
We had been looking into getting some horses for a long time, but the price of getting good stock was just beyond our reach. I had taken ridding lessons as a child, and my sister is currently. We both love horses and have never had any of our own. A couple of weeks ago we got an offer to take some horses, since the owner needed to reduce the herd. She said that they would be free to a good home. I figured, "free"?! Meaning something is probably wrong with them.....lol. But to my amazement they are both sound and quality horses. The Dark Bay gelding is a Quarter Horse/Thoroughbred cross, and the chestnut mare is a Quarter Horse. The gelding is very tall, I would say close to 16hh and very gentle. The mare is shorter probably 15hh but very smart, and a lot of cow horse potential. Both are still green but are learning very quickly. We are sending the mare off for professional training in August and the gelding will follow after.

Here are some pictures I took today!

Here is Jack, our Oberhasli Dairy Buck. He was curious as to what we were doing with the horses and I couldn't resist a picture.

Yesterday I was out feeding the chickens some scraps, when I found a pair of mating Monarch butterflies. I got a couple of good pictures considering the camera I'm using is not very good. (Never by a Kodak). While I was in the garden a female Ruby Throated Hummingbird landed not 5 inches from me on some cattle wire. I didn't have time to get a picture though........*sigh*

This is my grandparents Jack Russel, she is such a ham!

Flood Plains!

Our lovely flood plain! We had a nasty storm come through on July 11, 2009. A local town had some minor damage due to a tornado. The main reason for the flooding besides the rain was that our culvert got clogged and therefore the water backed up. Thank Goodness there was only minor damage and loss.

*sigh* I hate our Culvert.

Dad's truck, it moved forward about 3 inches.

My grandfathers car, if flooded up to the front door.

This is after the water started to go down, by the front door.

There is a driveway somewhere.

Stupid weather, my car moved 6 inches forward. If it had got any higher it would have ended up in the culvert in front of it.

Mom's suburban......it didn't go anywhere...lol

The barn and the side of the house.

It flooded 6 inches in the barn, all our hay was on palates, the bottom row got wet. All the stalls are wet and will have to be cleaned, Grr

The aftermath, all the road is a solid sheet of mud.

Yuck!

Debri, that washed in.

All those cross-ties, the were laying up against the driveway. Almost lost them.

About two hours later, the water is still flowing.

We moved all the cars in case it rained again.

The lawnmower is ruined.

Driveway is all washed out.

This is how high it got up next to the house.