A Journey Through a Different Way - Funny Story Pg. 69

[ruth]

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No....what does it mean? Mine haven't shown themselves yet. Is it this time of year that they do? I always forget since they pop up out of nowhere - which is why I call them Fairy Flowers. Then after they die there's huge masses of green leaves everywhere and last year I said I was going to dig a lot of them up once I knew where they were but, alas, never got around to it.

I have so much gardening I need to do it's unreal but my time and energy has gone to the farm and the animals. I've still got two rooms full of boxes that have yet to be unpacked and I have 50 people arriving Friday for the holiday weekend.

 

[beefy]

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No....what does it mean? Mine haven't shown themselves yet. Is it this time of year that they do? I always forget since they pop up out of nowhere - which is why I call them Fairy Flowers. Then after they die there's huge masses of green leaves everywhere and last year I said I was going to dig a lot of them up once I knew where they were but, alas, never got around to it.

I have so much gardening I need to do it's unreal but my time and energy has gone to the farm and the animals. I've still got two rooms full of boxes that have yet to be unpacked and I have 50 people arriving Friday for the holiday weekend.

Ive been saying for a while now that fall was in the air and the spider lilies popping up is proof! usually they dont pop up here until mid september. spiders lilies to me mean two things, FALL! and hurricane season.

i know what you mean, i always say i'm going to move some of mine and never do. and then they disappear. i actually have some in a pot that i did dig up a few years ago but never got around to planting. they dont even have any dirt on them but they still grow each year. they havent flowered tho. maybe i'll plant them tomorrow.

i feel your pain about rooms full of stuff. my fixer upper is so full of stuff i cant even work on it. i have an 1890s farmhouse full of junk! i have boxes from the last time i moved, stuff stored from my grandmothers estate that needed to get out of her house in a hurry and my mom needed a place to put it temporarily and has been seemingly forgotten, my whole family's "yardsale" pile, some of my good stuff is in there somewhere that i havent seen since college, and i need to make room for the nice antiques i inherited from my other grandmother before my aunt sells that house. i have one room that is full of lamps! that is one con to living out in the boonies is theres not enough traffic to have a very good yard sale unless its well advertised. maybe i'll learn how to sell stuff online or either dig a big hole and bury it all and start over. lol? one day at a time i suppose...

 

[Luke0987654321]

hi
you have inspired me so mutch and its amazing how you cope whith all of the animals, and i just think your amazing!
congrats on being a grandmother
i have read this post from the beginning

best of luck whith youre journey

luke

 

[ruth]

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Why thank you so much Luke. Welcome to BYC - home of lots of amazing people.

Monique

 

[Luke0987654321]

before i read this post i hardly ever let my chickens free range
but now that i read it they free range every day all day, and you are right about the chicks feathering out faster they are 3 weeks old and almost all of them have lost teir fluffy heds.
the man i bought them from came over the other day to check up on them, he looked at them and said, so where are those chicks?
i told him and he thought i was liying...
i went over to see his (which are the same age) and they where beggining to get their wing feathers, as well as that the egg yolks from my older hens are mutch oranger than before,
so that just prooves how free ranging helps.

luke

 

[tink]

Hey.... Been a while since news....Hows it going on the Farm????
Tink

 

[ruth]

Wow - time flies when you're having fun - or are worked to the max. Either way, can't believe it's been three months since I last posted/updated this thread. Let's see - where to begin?

First - As a new grandma - gotta brag about new grandbaby. Khloe had her Baptism - she wore an antique gown I wore when I was baptized 50 years ago. Of course, she was beautiful.

Here's a four generation picture of my mom, me, my daughter and her daughter:

And one of me and my three kids. My son is due to be deployed, again, in Jan. so please keep him in your prayers. He's already done his three years in the Army, including a tour in Iraq and is now in the Reserves but has gotten his orders to go back after Christmas.

Second - we just had a very rare snow. It was beautiful and John and I built a snowman, my very first. The snow had already started melting before I got the pics.

The garden is full of lots of great greens and lettuces. I had managed to pick the last of the sweet peppers the day before the snow. I was afraid the lettuce would be ruined from being under snow but it's still looking good.

The newest additions to the farm are the baby lamb "Lambo" who thinks he's a dog and runs and sleeps with the dogs.

And our little baby goat quads - who are growing by leaps and bounds. I need to add some new pics to their thread:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=258013

And the only really sad update is that we lost our beautiful Sebastopol gander the night of the snow. I had discovered him just sitting in the yard the day after Thanksgiving and ran to pick him up. It's the only time I've ever held him - he has always been so fiesty and aggressive and in fact had run up and bitten my leg two days before - luckily I was wearing jeans. But he was fluff and bones - didn't weigh anything. I isolated him in a warm, heated tack room and kept him well fed. He was eating and drinking but after a week still unable to stand. He died in his sleep the night it snowed. I'll need to get another guy for my gal before Spring. It's one thing to lose a chicken but I found it really hard to see that beautiful goose dead. I just have no idea what happened to him or what I could have done to save him.

Well those are the good and the sad updates for the past three months. There's always babies hatching around here, and we've adopted a new Siamese kitten (Meow) and I'm working on a new website for the farm with the idea that we can open it up for tours in Spring or by this Summer - www.bethelplantation.com. Take a look and let me know what you think.

Bye for now.

Monique "Ruth"

 

[speckledhen]

Monique, thank you for the lovely pictures. Your granddaughter is beautiful! Sure got a chuckle out of Lambo laying by Rex, LOL. You have my deepest wishes for a blessed 2010. You've had an amazing last couple of years!



So sorry about your gander.

 

[ruth]

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Thanks Cyn for the kind words.

Yes, it is funny to see the little lamb/ram running with the pack of big dogs - two German Shepherds and two Great Pyreness. He's the most well-guarded lamb in history. When all the dogs take off into the woods barking at something, he goes with them, when they come running back, there he is keeping up with them. At night he sleeps either in the bed with Rex or Scarlett, or in one of their beds, depending on whether he's in a snuggle mood or not. When we go to bed, we put him in the tack room with the mama goat and her babies - just to be safe and there's a heater in there so he doesn't get cold. When my kids were here for Thanksgiving, my son couldn't stop laughing at the sight of a lamb running with a pack of dogs. Everytime someone drove up all the dogs, and the lamb, would run to greet them. Today the propane guy was here to fill the tank and Lambo jumped up on the tank while he was filling it. He jumped back and said "Whoa....what's that?" My husband said "That's an American Blackbelly ram". Propane guy said "Looks like a pet to me." Well yeah.......

 

[WriterofWords]

What a beautiful scene and pics, thank you!