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They're home!

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:35:00 -0500

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*

Sweetie's first hair cut

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:46:00 -0500

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.

Llamas!

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:31:00 -0500

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!

First egg!

Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:27:00 -0500

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.

update on chickens

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:10:00 -0500

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!

Chickens!

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:57:00 -0500

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!

Where am I?

Sat, 7 Feb 2009 16:48:00 -0600

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.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:59:00 -0600

Auto Shop

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:38:00 -0600

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.

Recipe Binder

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:29:00 -0500

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