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

[hensplease]

i love the goats thanks for the update

 

[hcammack]

Thanks for the update Monique I always love looking at your farm I can only dream of having a farm like that when I am older. Oh to dream maybe in 10 years and thats also probably wishful thinking

Hopefully I can retire to a place like that in 40-50 years.

I want goats are you milking or have you decided just to breed them and not milk? WOW quads I forgot about them. Well your Wellsummers and everyone else is looking fit as fiddles I love how the peafowls coloring is coming in I remember when you posted pictures of them as tiny peachicks. I wish I could free range all of my birds. Near the end of my time with my LF flock I was free ranging them every day and they loved it and I didn't lose one with my basset guard dogs

But now that I just have this little flock of bantams who aren't the brightest I can't believe they would be good freerangers.

Well We can dream can't we I love lambo I think the next thing you need is a cow

and some ladies for Lambo! I like miniture cows to dexter milk cows maybe or miniture Jerseys. I do have to say my favorite three cow breeds are Belted Galloways, Milking Devonds, and Jerseys. Get one

 

[Zookeeper9000]

Hey lady sorry it took me so long to post and thank you for the update. It is crazy around here as I have been getting ready for my knee replacement surgery, they started talking about that knee when I was 12 and I made it to 46 so I guess I did good. I go in next Monday and it has been crazy as I had less then 3 weeks to prepare and you are never prepared. I will be home bound for 2 or 3 weeks so I hope everyone puts lots of pictures up.

Really I am going to start cutting quilts out so that when I am ready to sew they are all ready for me LOL. I also plan on getting all my pictures scanned to usb ports so that they are safe in case of a fire. Then I will start putting them into scrap books. Big plans we will see how much gets done LOL I will probally catch up on reading instead LOL.


I love the pictures, I think in our hearts we would all love to live the life you are living but in reality I am sure you work your fingers to the bones and some days you must be so tired that you just wish you could run away. Life on a place that size is not easy and the pictures are so great sometimes we forget.

I live in the UP of MI and I know cold, we get weeks at a time below zero, but we know it's coming, your weather is not suppose to go there. When I was growing up we had a big old 5 bedroom farm house and a wood stove in the living room. It was always cold, more than once one of us singed our pj's cuddling up to that big old wood stove LOL. I came from a big family and we had cows and horses and hunting dogs. It kept ya busy that is for sure. And if I was looking lazy one of my 7 brothers or my 5 sisters would find me something to do, ya didn't dare let Mom or Dad catch ya with nothing to do, but then again there was always something to do. I miss those days, hated them then but miss them now.

Thank you for the update I will be praying you get better weather, we have had it hot this last week mid to high 40's and low 50's it has been great but the cold is a coming back suppose to be close to zero in the next week or so.

Keep warm, carring that water in winter is the worse. Prayers for you all daily, hang in there, and how are the pups LOL miss the dogs.

 

[ruth]

The old home is finally getting a facelift. We've had a crew here for a couple of weeks working on the old gal. They've carefully removed all of the old columns and have torn out rotted wood and replaced with new boards. They've jacked the porches up and leveled them. They've even put new support beams in - it appears someone cut the old ones out many years ago and just put the columns back without any structural support posts in them. The columns were simply cosmetic. They are made from many pieces of wood fitted together with pegs, and with old horsehair plaster caps on top. What's amazing is that the roof and porches held all these years without the support columns that were, at one time, inside the cosmetic columns. They just don't build them like this anymore.

This crew is amazing. They are remaking everything, from cypress, just as it originally was. We have a local lumbermill that is making special tools so that boards can be cut and beveled or edged or styled exactly the same. The crew is repairing the columns and making matching bases. What's not so great is hearing them out there at o'dark thirty every morning

Well... we are now officially the local animal rescure/drop off center - at least everyone in town seems to think so. This week someone dropped off last year's Easter Bunny that their child no longer wants. Poor thing has lived in a small cage without any attention for the whole year of its life.

Of course, there's Lambo, who was also a drop off but we really love this little guy.

I've finally found the courage to let my goats run free and they are loving it. They love having all the woods they can eat and they've finally stopped screaming all day like a bunch of starving pigs. The quad babies have really grown.

And remember the baby peafowl from summer before last? They are getting their trains and beautiful coloring:

And, I don't think I ever posted any pics of our little guineas - like everything else, they have the run of the farm and I can hear them from wherever they are - one thing they are not, is quiet:

 

[cheryl98117]

All I have to say is, your home is absolutely breathtaking. I could only wish to find a place like that.

 

[coloradochick]

What Cheryl said! Wow Ruth, I remember when you first posted about your new home and how you reeled me in with your stories and that beautiful home. You can just tell what a kind hearted woman you are. What a place to be an animal! I love reading your updates just as everyone else does. I live vicariously through you (hope you don't mind)

Beautiful family!

Cara

 

[ruth]

Thank you Cheryl and Cara. I should post the pics of all the rotted wood on the house and you'd get a better idea of the massive amount of work it is going to take to get it restored (not to mention a fortune we don't have). So, we'll do a little a time for the rest of our lives. What is neat about what they've done so far is that it used to be that when you walked out onto the second floor balcony there was such a slope that you felt like you were going to run down and fall over the railing - plus the columns on the second floor were several inches from the top so they swayed and could be pushed over if leaned against (why someone ever cut out the support posts is beyond me). Anyway, now that the balconies have been leveled, the columns on the second floor touch the top and there's no slope to the floor and now the bats that used to fly in/out over the columns and into the exterior roof/wall will have to find another way. When they come out of hibernation I'll bet they'll be surprised that their old "doorways" are closed.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Hey! I haven't kept up with your post and I was just wondering. How is Ruth? I still remember playing the "Where's Ruth?" game, lol. Such a pretty chicken

 

[speckledhen]

Monique, I'm glad you posted more on the thread. I remember you talking about all the termite-ridden wood and hoped things would go well for you as you replaced all that. So glad the time is here! And the birds look great, even those loudmouthed goonie-birds.

 

[ruth]

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Hi Coyote - that seems so long ago. Sadly, Ruth disappeared one day, never to be seen again. I like to think of her as being off somewhere raising a bunch of young-uns all by herself. She was always a loner and had taken to staying in the old barn all by herself. Then, one week that first Spring here, we had a bird disappear every other day, including her. My husband walked up on a bobcat in the barn one morning so we can only assume he got Ruth.

Her numerous offspring live on here. Her daughter is the mother to all my olive egg layers.

Since then, we've gotten a second German Shepherd and two Great Pyrenees so no more problems with bobcats.

I do miss her though. She was the only "pet" chicken I had. She would come running at full blast across the yard, dodging roosters, and fly straight into my chest, or arms or land on my head. She did not like the roos. She always loved to jump in my lap and be preened.

O.K., I'm getting all weepy now.....