Fair Pics

 This big ole steer is a Watusi from Africa I believe.  If stretched out he horns were 8'.  A really big guy.  Calm and quiet.


A miniature horse and her baby that was just a few days old when the fair started.  Both of these critters were in the petting part of the fair.  Kids (and adults) were loving the variety of animals they had this year.  Of course chickens, goats, bunnies and Pot Bellied pigs.  There was a Zebu too.  Looked like a Brahma but wasn't.  He was big too.

Sage came up and wanted me to come get her today.  I petted and hugged on her.  I love it when she does that.

We sold the tractor that Bob did not use, the old manure spreader and the rabbits today.  We needed the money for taxes.  Actually we sold the tractor the other day but today he came and paid for it.  Steve came out and started the horse shelter so we have a place for Marilyn's horses to get out of the weather this winter and he almost got my chicken house built for my banty chickens that Shannon raised for me.  Bob will finish it.  Can't wait to get them home.  We need some big laying hens too.  We have the market for the eggs and our hens are getting old and don't lay as much.

Tomorrow I am going to a quilting get together with my friend Vicki.  I know they are all more experienced than me but I will do the best I can.  Then tomorrow evening is our Mustang Club meeting.  Love getting together with that group. 

My baby kitties are getting bigger.  They think I am their mother.  They hear me talk or go into that room and they start crying. 

Blessings





Katie

This morning I took some sweet pictures of Katie in her late stage of pregnancy.  I can not get any of the others to load for some silly reason.  I guess I just have to keep messing with it to get it figured out.

I worked with Sage some today.  She does not like where I have her.  She wants to be closer to the house.  I should have ridden her but didn't.  She is so pretty.

Blessings,

This and That

Our sunset tonight.  The sun is so red through the smoke from Central Washington.  The fires are still going strong.



One of the two very wild kittens we found in the loft in the barn.  They appear to be a week or 10 days older than our little ones I have fed.  Feisty little things.  Bob had to hold it at arms length to keep from getting clawed or bitten.




Skeeter giving little Piggy aka Slate a good lick after the little guy had eaten.  I was worried he would hurt them and maybe he would but Bob had a hold of them.



I don't know how to get the picture of the squash to move over.  At least I got the picture here.  This is a sweet meat squash.  Probably it weighs about 20#.  We got two off of lots of vines.

A good day more or less.  This smoke has given me a headache day after day.  If we just could get some rain and wash out the air

Marilyn and Dave's horses are here while they get moved and things under better control for them.  This is a really hard time in their lives.  Wish there was something more we could do.

Blessings



Pictures from the other day

Finally got the pictures I wanted the other day. 

The apples are not quite ready to eat.  I tried one today, a little too sour yet.  I like them a little on the sour side but this was a little too cheek puckering for me.

Don't you love my baby horse.  We will move it out by the maple tree in the front yard.  I will get some paint and repaint him black and white when I get to Walmart the next time.  He looks like an authentic baby foal. 

It is good to have Bob home.  I will sort through his pictures when he gets the card back from the other Bob.  It is in his laptop.  I had a chuckle when I went to get it from my camera and there was no card there.  Just the blank card shaped thingy that goes into the card reader on his laptop. 

We lost the little white spotted kitten this morning.  I knew it wasn't good last night.  Feel bad, that was my favorite.  The other two are real characters.  Both are active and eat good. We are going to start to try to get them to drink from a little dish.  They are old enough.  I hated losing one but if we hadn't intervened all 5 would have been lost.

Nothing else exciting going on here.  Just life on the farm with us and all the critters.

Blessings

A picture, wahoo.

Bob and his brother, Jackie and I at Carmen's birthday party a couple of years ago.  I think that might be the last picture of the four of us.  Jackie is very limited in physical movement.  She has been in and out of hospitals and nursing homes but is home at the moment.

Bob got home safely this afternoon.  He is tired and glad to be able to relax.  He was not too impressed with North Dakota.  He did go to Walmart and buy a warmer jacket.

I think I may have the picture problem solved but I just downloaded this one.  Bob has a card full that I will look at tomorrow.  The smoke is still bad.  I am tired of hacking and hacking because of it.  I can not believe how bad it must be living closer to the fires. 

Blessings,

Dang Blogger

I had pictures ready to load and guess what - blogger has changed my program and I can't figure out how to get pictures on.  I got them to load them and then they were huge and only one came up.  It just showed showed a small portion of the picture.  Dang nab it anyway.  HELP. 

I took some pictures of my new yard ornament that Marilyn gave me.  Its a life sized foal.  It is darling.  They are moving and didn't want to leave it nor does she have room for it.  I am going to repaint it probably not till spring though.

I have Katie's blankets about done.  Will finish them tomorrow.  Love the feel of new flannel. 

Our apples are going to be ripe soon.  They are pretty sour yet.  Braeburns I think.  Sharon and Brownie got us the tree not too long after we moved here. 

Blessings to you all......................

A day in the life of................

No pictures today and nothing too exciting.  Bob just called and its cold and dreary in Jamestown, North Dakota.  They will have to work all day tomorrow to get the job close to being done.  That makes him home Thursday or Friday.  That's OK, I have things under control here at least for the time being.

Today was Katie and my Monday out.  She has a problem and the doctor is pretty sure that she will deliver early.  I hate when they tell pregnant mothers that because if they don't, then its a big disappointments.  We had our toenails done.  Loved pedicures.  It feels so good.  She can't reach hers so it was great to get some TLC.   We got her some emergency small clothes.  I got some material to make her some receiving blankets.  I will start on them later.  I could not believe that at her shower she got none.  Well, she will have 3 nice big ones anyway.

I got the chores done.  Sage is so loving.  She comes up to the fence every time I go out.  Maybe I will ride tomorrow OR maybe I will go see Vikki and work on the quilt pillow OR maybe I will read one of the books I got at the used book store today too. 

So, that was my day, and feeding kittens pretty often.  I am concerned about the little girl, she is not thriving like the other two.  I am doing the best I can.  She doesn't suck much, I just squirt it in her mouth and she swallows it.  Any ideas?

Blessings to you all................