Showing posts with label roses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roses. Show all posts

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Around the farm with some UPS and *DOWNS*

Feeding time with Wilbur and Wallie

Can be a challenge sometimes and can have me laughing so HARD !!!
If they get a chance to get their snouts in my Black Bucket I'm holding and believe me they WILL:)
They have gotten so so fast and strong .
Then thats when the laughter begins ,with me trying to get that Black bucket from them. Sometimes until they are ready for a water break I just have to hold on tight till they let it go ! I forsee me coming back to the house with a good dose of PIG MANURE on
My Bottom End !

I must be doing something right thou because they have fat little tummies. There was a week or 2 they just didnt seem to want to eat then I read an article about them being known as Eggsuckers so I started putting 2 eggs  in there feed a 2x day and boy did they start eating UP ! Now I just give 1 egg a feeding and split the eggshells from our breakfast with them and the chickens. They have really started Growing . I could stay down there with them all day just watching them.It's funny when the pigs here me talking in our back yard they start Squealing to tell me Come down here to Our Pen and stay with US:)
Ya know you can do alot of thinking down there with them!!
To me its just so Peaceful under the trees watching them.


Meet Double "D"
What a cute Buck Dusty brought me.
He came with an awesome homemade big pen.
Show pics soon.
I still have a long way to go on learning the in and outs of Raising Rabbits .
On the down side for the Farm our 5 little newborns didn't make it:(
I got 2 bred momas right now thou due around Sept.9th.
One bred by Double D and one bred by Thumper

The Chickens have Grown so much
its unreal to me how fast they have grown.
We move their Pen about every 4 days to have new Grass.
Having 2 tiny poodles of 13 years ,we can't let them roam around the farm.We have had one snapping at the pen for a week before I broke that behavior.

This is a Sunflower that come up from some Chickens left over lunch of Black Oil sunflower seeds.
I think it just looks so beautifully placed there:)
We don't have a rooster at this time, so we have
officialy bought our FIRST bag of Laying Mash.
I sooooo want a Rooster .

The work on the Man Barn Continues
My Cottage Barn will come someday lol
Course knowing me I will invade that Man Barn more than once ;)
One the left side of this barn the Chickens will have a new run and a great place to lay eggs.

I have been picking the Roses for more Rose Petal jelly
got a batch in the fridge soaking for 24hours as we speak
LOVE THIS JELLY

Beautiful Red Layers
I think the cold Coffee and Banana Peels have reallly been helping them grow better

Just so Delicate looking
I hope to add some new color roses soon

Our GrandDaughters first day of Preschool

Last Wednesday I joined my Daddy on my very First Cow Sale!
Now that I am staying at home watching over the Farm fulltime the Pecan season has become my income.
This year our trees are in their off season but I am so hoping i can bring in enough to purchase my first cow.
I so Enjoyed the Auction
But let me just tell ya
COWS ARE EXTREMELY HIGH RIGHT NOW !!!!!
Even calfs are going for $500.00+
I will do extremely good if I manage one at that price with our expected low yeild of pecans this year.


These 2 beauties were born last weekend
beautiful in color and we were thrilled but
there were some problems and they didn't make it :(
Farm life can be hard!

Our nanny left them
and we didn't catch the birth in time
hubby worked with her ,she had a blocked tit
and the babies by the time we found them were too weak:(
I have alot of reading to do on goats and being better prepared next time. We thought about selling her but have decided we would breed her one more time .
Guess if my pecan season yields too low on income I can pick up a few new nannies ,I truly love the LaMancha Breed they are just so sweet natured and suppose to be great milkers .Hoping my son will get working on that milk stand soon or I'm just going to have to pick me up my own Pink Hammer from Town !!:)

Hope you Enjoyed the Around the Farm Ups and Downs
May you have a Wonderful Hump Day
Love from My Gang to Yours


Thursday, April 26, 2012

Nature Photos from Around the Farm

                                  Yesterday my Hubby and I walked around the yard for
                                                                  2 Awesome reasons 
                                             1. To Get My Own Physical Therapy going 
                 2. We wanted to look around the Farm and find some nice Nature pics to link
                                                        up with his Sweet Sisters Blog .
                                                   A Family of Looneys
                                                    She is doing her very first Linky Party :)
                                                                
                         I am always late lol. gotta a few excuses I could claim this week :)
you can find her Link to the Nature Photos here http://afamilyoflooneys.blogspot.com/2012/04/nature-photo-tuesday.html
This was the First Day we saw these , Woohoo!!

    I always think these are totally KOOL!
    These tiny little Purples may be weeds but I think they deserve a shot they look so Peaceful Blowing in the Wind

    Had to share this Veggie Shot , How  Neat are the Criss Crosses on these Leeks we are growing :)

    Now a Beautiful Deep Red Surprize for Tim and I
    This is a lone Lettuce Plant that we found straggling of to the old Garden Patch waiting to be tilled.
    Made a Great addition to Our Salad at Lunch
    That Deep Red is Amazing!!

    The Don Juans are coming In

    Every Thing is Coming up Roses lol 



    Thanks to My sweet sisnlaw Rochelle
    Tim and I
    had a Beautiful Afternoon
    around the Farm
    Hope You all get a Chance to Be Outside today to Enjoy and find Nature Life
    Love from Our Smith Gang

    Wednesday, January 25, 2012

    Don Juan Rose Petal Jam

    A Rose is just a Rose UNTIL:
    It becomes Don Juan Jam
    picked a basket with about a quart of Don Juan Roses ,trimmed the white tips off closets to the bud and any bad spots
    washed them ,I see I missed a few tips lol
    Soaked them overnight in water cooked them using this sites recipe http://www.emikodavies.com/blog/rose-petal-jam/
    I did add 2 tablespoons Liquid Pectin and you can add a drop of  food coloring to enhance whatever color petals you have
    it turned out so YUMMY !
    Since I have added several of my marmalades to some of my crock-pot meals I thought  my Rose Petal Jam I had canned  might go well with some meat in the crock-pot.

     WOW- O -WOW was it good on a Pork Roast:) No left overs from My Smith Gang! 







    My son Spent this afternoon 1/24/2012 pruning them back for this years new growth I can't wait for them to start Blooming again, Hoping they do well again this year they are so Beautiful Blooming,Sometimes its hard to pick them for Jam.


    May You have a Blessed Day and Enjoy some Jam or Plant a ROSE:)