October 15, 2009 They're home!
Our llamas have arrived home. They arrived all neat and cleaned up for show. Here they are in their transport:
Red Baron (the auburn one) is 16 months old. Sweet Dreams (the white one) is 5 months old. They stand about 4 feet tall at their heads. We think Red is almost fully grown, but we anticipate that Sweet Dreams will grow up to 6 feet tall at the head.
They arrived on a beautiful day and adjusted easily to their new surroundings. Then the torrential rains hit East Tennessee and these sweet, clean llamas LOVE to frolic in the rain and then roll in the dirt and hay. So much for their clean show coats.
Red Baron all wet and dirty.
Sweet Dreams showing that he can get just as wet and muddy as his bigger brother.
It doesn't bother them in the least to be wet and dirty. It only bothers us humans. *sigh*
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September 23, 2009 Sweetie's first hair cut
Our youngest llama, Sweet Dreams, had his first shearing. Here he is in all his skinnyness.
 Sweet Dreams
We've got the pasture and fencing ready. The barn stalls have been cleaned out. We still need to fix a couple wet places near the barn entrances to keep the little guys' feet from getting too muddy.
The llamas are scheduled to be delivered to our farm, Starburst Acres, in early October as soon as Sweet Dreams is weaned. YAY llamas.
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Like we don't have enough to clean up after around here. Anyway, here are pictures of our two newest members of the family. Well, they will be here once the youngest is weaned from his mama in another 6 weeks.
Sweet Dreams (spring cria - male)
Red Baron (yearling - male)
These two boys are coming from Walnut Ridge Llama Farm near Greeneville, Tennessee. Fun stuff in store for us all!
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Wow, the chickens have come of age. They are now 18 weeks old and one of our Leghorns (the white ones) has given us our first ever egg from our flock.
 The ladies at 18 weeks (taken today!)
 The first egg (photo taken last night.)
It's really big for a first egg. About a size medium.
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June 10, 2009 update on chickens
Whoa, sorry, but I don't remember that I have this blog very often until someone comments. Thanks, Letitia, for remembering that I'm here!
The chickens are growing up. They're 4 months old now. Just one more month until they are old enough to start laying. Here is a picture of them at 8 weeks. I need to take some newer pictures!
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In this stumbling economy, we have decided to try our hand at raising our own chickens. We got a coop and fencing from a neighbor who moved and couldn't take his chickens. We disassembled that on his property and moved that to ours.
And we got some 3 week old chickens from another local chicken farmer yesterday. Here they are:
Right now they are in the kitchen keeping warm. This week we plan on putting the coop and fencing back together and helping the new hens to relocate to the outside environment. What an adventure!
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February 7, 2009 Where am I?
Goodness! I thought for sure I made a December entry! Now I feel neglectful. Sorry folks! Yes, I'm still here. Christmas was great. Our oldest came down from Indiana for a couple of days to spend some wonderful moments with us. That was priceless.
January was a blessing too. I got another year older, but we don't need to talk about that. I guess that's just more experience under my belt, huh? My boys are growing up. Charlie is as tall as his dad now (6-feet) and only 14 years old.
Harold has decided he didn't like the name Harold for on-line, so we are now going to refer to him as Rosco on-line. He's growing up too, but at least he's still shorter than his Mama.
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November 27, 2008 Happy Thanksgiving! November 13, 2008 Auto Shop
As our middle son started high school this year, we've had to 'settle' on a career path track. At least this seems to be what Charlie is heading for. He's interested in Automotive Engineering. That means lots of time doing 'auto shop'. In fact most days this is where you can find Charlie....that would be when he's not on his motorcycle.
 Here he is changing the plugs and plug wires on our Ranger. This truck is the guinea pig of our auto shop. It's getting all the repairs done to it that is required by our curriculum. Actually it's a bit of a costly program in the long run! But Charlie loves it and is learning (we all are) a lot.
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October 31, 2008 Recipe Binder
Okay, so I'm not one to make "handy, helpful hints" on my blog (hey, I'm not even one to update my blog regularly) but I just thought of something that I do at home that might help someone with their recipes' storage.
I use a thin 3-ring binder with the clear pockets on the front and back covers where I put my most used recipes. I also use clear sheet protectors for the recipes that I pull out from magazines. For the ones I get/find on the Internet, I simply print off and three hole punch to go in the binder.
This way you can easily make dividers to fit your own specific needs. It's so easy to re-arrange the recipes, re-mark them (when you've changed one to better suit your family), and add too or take away from the mother-lode. I just keep the binder on the shelf with the other cookbooks.
:end helpful hint of the day.
~Betsy
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I love autumn! Today is my Mom and step-Dad's 30th wedding anniversary. Such a beautiful memory for us all. I called them today and they are doing well. They live about 300 miles from me.
 Mom and Dave, October 1, 1978
Did you know that my header pictures are always my own personal photos? I have four that I change out per season, and right now what you see is my late summer/autumn header that I took a couple years ago looking out from our back yard.
And this picture is one I've posted before, of our front field being mowed and baled late one summer.
I just love the smell of the hay being brought in.
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August 25, 2008 Pictures and things
Boy, you don't know how much you rely on the Internet until it's gone. Our server here at the college was in the process of being 'updated' when everything went wrong. What was supposed to be a weekend job for our IT department is now into it's second week of struggles.
Our home Internet was off for just over a week, while my hosting site for pictures was gone for a bit longer than that. Web pages / blogs don't look very good without images! At least mine don't because I'm one of those people who likes posting pictures!
How wonderful it has been to find the Internet was back on Saturday night and to find all my images back this morning! Kudos to our IT department who must have worked on the weekend to try and get everything up and running for the students who return to campus today.
And a great week to you all too!
~Betsy
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July 8, 2008 Charlie's Birthday
Charlie turned 14 last week. His birthday is surrounded by our country's birthday, so is always a fun time.
We took him to Music Road Hotel in Pigeon Forge for the day before his birthday, and NASCAR Speedpark for his birthday (where else?) We had a great time!
 And now we're back to school for year 14. As usual, we start back the first full week of July so that we can finish by April. So technically we have 'spring break' and not 'summer break'.
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April 30, 2008 Done for the year!
We finished up our lessons on Friday and I got my documentation finished up and sent out today! Year 13 down and in the books!
and just because I like to post pictures, here are the boys learning the mechanics of their bikes. Education in progress!
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April 4, 2008 Ready for racing |
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