Thursday, February 7, 2008

Warm Winter Days

While we were working hard this weekend, we looked out into the pastures and saw our animals lounging about enjoying the unseasonably warm, sunny day. Just had to snap this photo of our Nubian bucks "hanging out".

We are still excitedly waiting on our chickens to start laying eggs. The girls have discovered the nest boxes and have started to act a little more broody ... maybe soon! :)

Over the past few months, both of us have been dealinlg with some injuries that kept us from being very productive. Tho still on the mend, we spent this past weekend working thru our list of all the "little" things that need to get done around the ranch. Fixing things that were broken, building a feed sack bundler rack, putting rubber mats into the horse feeding stalls, cleaning out the creep feeder and refilling it ... you know, just regular stuff that gets pushed off. At the end of the weekend, while we were incredibly tired, we were happy to see what we had accomplished. There is always more to do, but progress comes in small steps sometimes.

This weekend we also said farewell to three llamas who went to their new home. This is a picture of Paloma, her daughter Faith, and the little boy, Taylor, awaiting the arrival of their ride and saying "Goodbye" to all their buddies. These three have gone to a wonderful new home filled with lots of love! What more could we ask for? :)

2 comments:

FourMileFarm said...

I'd love to see pics of your feed sack bundler rack. Although, admittedly, we use feed sacks for trash bags, and dont have enough to need to bundle up anyway... but, still! LOL I'm curious as to what it looks like, as well as your creep feeder. Sounds like you had a great weekend. Do you have a couple fake eggs, or golf balls, or something in the chickens nests?

Teresa said...

Oh... fake eggs... great idea! Let me see if I have something that would work. I have some colorful plastic Easter eggs around here... that might confuse them! :)

I'll try to get a pic of the bag bundler. It is unique - I designed it myself. :)