Grandpa's Fish!

Ham and Bacon Update. A Piglet Story II

24 hours old.

Two weeks old.

Amazing what 2 weeks and all the milk they can drink can do!! 

And No they do not live in that tote :) They are living in the big tote in this post minus the heat lamp but added a 1 by 4 fence around the top :) as Bacon got out one day!! 

They just visit this tote when we clean out the big tote :) 

Peggy Sue

Is on the road once more :) 

Sows and Cubs

We went zipping by this sow bear and her 3 cubs the other day on the way home from the City. Papa swung around so we could get a better look. She had 2 black cubs and a brown cub. You can see the brown one in the middle of the picture. She is off to the right a bit. 

Here is a better picture of her but the cubs were all hiding in the top area there. 

Several weeks later I saw another black bear with 3 black cubs racing along a lake about 10 minutes drive from this area. Apparently some one else has seen a sow with 2 brown cubs and 1 black cub near this area too!! Must be a good year for black bears!! 

Ah... Hot Dog Roast :)

First some stick clean up. We had 8 six month old pigs in this pen for about a month and they did a fantastic job tilling in the leftover hay, flattening it out and pulling out sticks!! Papa spread some seed in there about a week before we moved them which is a super easy way to get some nice seeding done!! A little bit of raking around the edges and we have a nice flat seeded area! 

Tucker had a stick too.. but he really didn't think we should BURN it.. he'd rather chew on it :) 

Sitting back relaxing next to the house waiting for the fire to die down a bit so we could roast hotdogs. 

Ahh what a fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon!! 

Grandpa And G

I took this quick picture the other day when Grandpa and Grandma stopped in for a quick visit. 

Proof.. G is making friends with Grandpa :) 

Funnily enough.. it was Grandpa who had enough of her... 

and I don't blame him one bit!! 

Turns out she had a skunk in her basement!! 

But the moment was had and swiftly enjoyed and now will be remembered :) 

Birthday Flowers

Yup I had another birthday :) 

I got spoiled too!!

Breakfast in bed, 

flowers,

cards from all the kids 

and Papa, 

ice cream cake with the house church,

and they sang Happy Birthday too!!

Peach and apple cake and timbits with my mom and sisters,

and their kids :) 

Amazingly enough the cup still looks almost like this on my counter right now, and it's been a while since my birthday :), Only the red flowers died so far so I'm really enjoying these flowers!!

Normally flowers see me and decided to die... just as easy as 1 2 3.. but these are still doing really well!! YAY!! When they do finally die I'll have a new cup to remember them by :) 

Surprises On The Front Porch :)

One day last week E came screaming into our room in a most excited manner and woke me up from my nap :) 

Daisy, our not so bright cat, had just lay down on the front porch and given birth to a kitten right before their very eyes. 

They had been on the porch setting up this surprise for me when it happened.

What great kids I have!! 

And Daisy?? Well she went on to have 3 more kittens in the old outdated carseat we kept on the dogs crate for the cats to sleep in. One was this little orange kitten who stole all our hearts. That night Papa moved the carseat, kittens and all, into the new house, we couldn't leave them where Tucker could get at them, and found out the next morning that Daisy had some sense after all and moved them out of harms way. Turns out Tuckers figured out how to get into the house. We were a bit worried as we couldn't find them and Daisy seemed to be around a bit too much to have just had kittens, but Saturday morning after chores Papa came bursting into the house to tell us that he saw Daisy go above the ceiling, on the insulation, of the house and he's pretty sure that's where she's hiding her kittens!! YAY!!!