Farm Critters

A little bit of the farm family

Saturday Fun

Saturday was a outdoor filled day of beautiful weather, a whole lot of picking up, and a new fence in the sheep paddock. The fence would not have been complete without paint.

The girls worked trying to get the paint on the fence.

Update

It has been so long since I last blogged that I am not sure where to start.

Lets start with Mom......
She is still at her own home next door. She is about the same. We have not seen any ups lately though. She has the Extra mural come for weekly visits. ( these are nurses that come to you) they have moved her on the scale from cronic to palliative. So the outcome will not be good. She has now lost her sight and the diabeties are destroying her nerves in her brain. All we do now is pray all the time. I am there during the day with her, as she still has refused any outside help. I am hoping to break the ice with her as summer is fast approaching and I will need to be there for my children. So she will need help besides myself and my Dad.

The children are all well and healthy except for allergys. It is peek season here in our home and Justin,Jillian and Hubby are all sufferers.
Jayne is coming along with school. It has been tough this year with entering middle school. The work load is collage stuff. The team she is on is all about seminars, papers, and very heavy work loads. But she likes the challenge.
She is going on her big school trip next month to Ottawa Ontario for 5 days and is super excited about that.

Jillian is doing great. She is still my little straight A's student. And is so different from the other two. She had a little accident on the playground last Wednesday morning. She was playing a game with the other children and tripped over a piece of broken pavement, and came down on someone's head pretty hard, she had a bad nose bleed. Which I had to run and get her.
Her coat,shirt,pants,and book bag all got a lovely coating of blood. She was pretty upset and came home crying all the way. But after getting her washed up and washing her cloths, she cheered up pretty fast to making root beer floats with Mom.

Justin is finally back on track at school, after a couple of hard months. He really try's way to hard to fit in and find friends. This making him not wanting to be there in the first place, this making him not want to learn and do his school work. It has been a tough year for him S it is his first year of high school. But things (knock on wood ) the last couple of weeks have been much better.

Hubby (Jerry) has been able to stay on town working so far, we are hoping it stays this way. He has been very busy using every available minute he can get to work on and rebuild a dueley truck to haul his hay home with.
He fired up the saw mill the other day as well and has began sawing lumber for all sorts of yard projects.

The farm is coming alive. The horses are doing well and have been moved back to the front paddock.the ducks were laying until Molly our dog got I. The barn and ate the eggs.
They have been trying to lay again.
The geese are laying and we should be expecting goslings any day now. Lily our lamb is getting sooooo big. Cookie the kid goat is getting big too.
The sheep will be sheared this month.Lea the llama is also doing great. Along with Billy and Cinnie Belle the goats.
We are expecting 2piglets next Friday, coming from PEI.
Alena Jaynes cat had Kittens this week. 1 did not make it but the other 2 are doing good.
And finally my hens are giving me lots of eggs daily and my rooster wakes me every morning.

The weather has finally turned nice we get up to 11 to 22 degrees durning the days but our mornings and evenings are still chilly leaving us to put fires on.

This weekend we are fencing, raking and moving the hens to the summer house.

AND......... I will try and get some pics from the farm over the weekend to post as well.

I hope everyone is doing as well.
Take care

I've Been Hacked

A couple weeks ago, I could not receive my emails, nor could I use my pass word to access my email account.
I tried to get help from my email account company but was not successful. After researching what had happened to me, I come to find out I was hacked. :(
This left me with having to choose a new email and losing all my info like addresses, notifications and the worst part is knowing that someone could use my email to send others viruses.

I wonder how this could happen I follow all the info and have all the latest anti theft for my computers, and spyware, and virus controls.
Anyhow I'm back and if anyone of my blogger friends has received a email from me with my old email address please delete it.

My new address is

jessicacarey5@live.com

I will be back later with a little update as it has been forever since I last blogged.

Happy Easter

Easter has came to our barn with the birth of this beautiful black ewe lamb yesterday morning.

We could have not thought of a better way to celebrate Easter then this....

I wish you all a wonderful Easter weekend with your families.

Week End Chat

Well this week was a short but long week. Tuesday Justin got up sick with a gastro type flu, and Jayne called home sick from school at around 10. Tuesday evening while doing my supper rounds i found a little black lamb dead that must have been born late morning . i am thinking it might have been a still born form the new lamb i received for my birthday as it was in with the little ram lamb all the time. It was a sad moment for me, but I do have to say that lambs are very hard to look after. As someone once told me that lambs are born looking for a way to die.
We received a huge snow storm on Wednesday for our first day of Spring. The kiddies were off and got to laze around in their Jammie's all day. They still were not feeling the best. We ended up with over another foot of snow.
Thursday Justin and Jill went back to school and Jayne just could not do it. She stayed home and laid on the couch for the day.
Franny had her annual vet check up and shots, so I picked Jill up after school and got that out of the way. We picked up dewormer for all the dogs and barn cats and headed home to pop in a casserole I had in the freezer for supper. I love meals like this when I'm rushed.
Franny is so small that those little needles still hurt and she always cries and whines for about 3 days later.
Yesterday was a none stop day. Justin was so sick again he spent his day both in bed,and in the bathroom. Jayne went back to school, i drove her and Jill in, I helped my Mom out, and then headed into town to pay some bills, pick up feed, and a few things. Went to pick up the girls after school.
We picked up Chinese take out for supper, and headed home. I went to bed early and Justin had a bowl of turkey soup that I had made. He kept it down and went to bed too.
Today we are suppose to have Flurries,and it is freezing out there. I am going to spend most of my day indoors cleaning. I really dislike cleaning my house on the weekends when everyone is home, but since I have been looking after my Mother things have bed turned upside down in my routine, and this is about the only time I get to do it.
We had biscuits,and muffins for breakfast this morning, I am not sure on supper plans yet as I have not taken anything out of the freezer. Maybe a homemade pizza would be good.
Well time to get off the computer and put my butt in action. Take care and enjoy your weekend...

Hubby And I

We had this picture taken of us on Saturday night when we went out for supper. I thought I would share it with all of you.