We are Celebrating !

We are Celebrating ,our family has our 2nd Senior !!
Our Timothy Chad Golden Smith
has made it to his Senior Year ,Class of 2013 :)
Time seems to have flown by for sure.
My Golden child is such a huge blessing to me
he is truly my backbone.

Such a serious Lad
Many wishes to a Wonderful Year Son ENJOY !

we are also celebrating the birth of
 these 5 beautiful Rabbits
they are just so tiny
this is Our first rabbit breeding Blessing on Our farm
my Florida White Rabbit was bred with Our California Buck THUMPER. 
He has proven himself to be a Daddy Buck.yay!
we bought our new florida moma while she was expecting once on the farm she had 5 but only one lived so we knew she could be a moma but our buck we purchased last March when he was just 4 months old so we have been waiting for him to mature and see if he could prove himself as a Buck and he has ! we are all excited. So now it is up to the Farm to learn to help care for the new babies as we progress in rabbit meat raising.

                       May You have a Blessed Rest of the Week from
                                        Our SmithGang

Heres Whats Pickin on Our Little Farm

It's been a Pea Pickin Time Lately:)

Our Chad, the Backbone of Our Garden
seems to be run over with peas  these days
we never do get the rows
far enough apart but once he burns the wholes in the plastic there is no going back!!
And when you are doing that Project we totally forget how Beautiful and Big those plants get and just how far those runners will go !

Our sweet Go Getter loves to shell he usually oops to babysit Sophia while the pickin is being done but
 he still gets his fair share:)

Our Rows are just short enough this time to pick and bring in a huge pot of Peas for Supper with a huge plate of Cornbread ,its so YUMMY
sometimes we choose to have only that for Supper!

Such a Hard working young Man

The Butterbeans have started filling our basket

                  We grew 2 different kinds of beans this year Kentucky
Bush and Italian Flat Beans both have been wonderful Producers

The kentuckeys we pick and bring straight to the Frying Pan I saute with Olive Oil , butter and Garlic and Onions that we Grew early Spring and add 2 huge Portibella Mushrooms
MMM there is never Enough of this Recipe 

These are the Italian Flats
Funny thou I call them Leather Britches to the kids but they are not but they get a chuckle out of it.

A Few of these Little treats are still coming in
the Okra has gone to a full Blown Cutting every other Day

LOL, this is how Farm Kids  look after Mom has Worked them
A nap anywhere will DO !

A few new Pecan trees have come up and we have been protecting them for transplanting to the back Field
( well if we can keep Hubby from lawnmowing them !)
But this one had me  totally STUMPED I had never seen a Pecan Leaf this big ,so I had to call an Expert IN to take a look and tell me if it really was a pecan tree.

MY DAD
he said in all his years of growing Pecan trees he has never seen leaves this HUGE !
This one we will diffenatley Baby to see how it grows and Produces down the years.

This is what is going on in OUR Little Farm Pickin,
May You have A Blessed Day
Love From My Smith Gang

Figs, Frogs Legs and a Fall

Oh How i love fig season

My Dads trees have been Blessed this year

These are Hubbies favorite
Sometimes hard to get them to the Jars before they gobble them up

I measure out one quart fresh figs at a time

My Daddys recipe which won him 2nd place at the fair years ago, one quart figs to one cup sugar

They Smell amazing while cooking

They look so pretty in the jars

so far , I have put up 13 quarts , 5 pints and 6 half pints (for gifting)

While out in the Pea Patch  with Chad
this cute little froggy scared me
and got me thinking mmm yummy Frog Legs LOL!
So off to the market we went

Home came 3 dozen Frog legs

After washing them and  soaking them
in mustard and ice for 2 hours

And a Quick dip in Louisiana Hot sauce

 I coat them with cornmeal and plain flour mixed to crisp them

Off to the Frying Pan they GO :)

And what a Yummy Meal it makes
Cajun Frog Legs
Homegrown  Potatoes and Greenbeans,Yummy Rolls and Hush Puppies and always 
 Southern Sweet Tea

Dig In lol

Smitty loves them

Guess who else Loves them !!?

Then this past week I took a nasty fall going under the Pecan tree to water and feed the rabbits:(

Quite the Bruises and a twisted ankle on the other foot and set my back pain a soaring a few days later geez I felt like i had been in a wreck! Finally i am walking better just when I thought I could leave the Cane at home ...Still thinking I should have had the ankle X-rayed but I have seen enuff docs !! he can look at it at my next Doc visit in August if its still being aggravating .
Well off to  check the animals
May You have a Blessed Day ,
Love from the smith Gang

Sunflowers help fill my Day

My Black Bucket Affairs
This is how my Mornings start and how my evenings End
Spending time with my cute little Black Buckets
The Rabbits get fed, then the Chickens and then Wilbur and Wallie ..
What a Minute !!!?
Wilbur and Wallie are Using my Sunflower Feed Bucket !!
What to do What to Do ...
I see a New BLACK BUCKET in my Future :)

I then tiptoe right over to my Sunflower Patch
and pull up about 5 heads that are drooping over (birds are getting their share now)
and head back to my bench and gaze at all our little animals while I shake seeds

I shake and scrap and gather them
 to feed the chickens ,rabbits and goats

 The Chickens love them
and they sure have grown over the last couple of weeks

The Rabbits sure do enjoy them as well
This is Dominoe verdict still out on the sex
My Brother gave it to us with it's a girl
um... actions speak louder than words !!!!!
I need to recheck Dominoe in another week or so .
Did read where the Black Oil Sunflower seeds help the Does produce more milk for their babies same thing with the goat nannies:)

 The goats love all the leaves off the stalks and goodness to get them to eat seeds I have found out I need to hand feed them
Seriously SPOILED!

 Forgot to mention
Someone else Loves his fare share too
CJ
he waits and waits,starring at my bench
just waiting for me to bring them over its so funny
who would have ever thought this big bear would like the sunflower pads ,I don't get it really but he does !

 Come on Moma give me some before those Goats get here
You know you see them rushing me from behind

  I just love CJ
Guardian
but such a Spoiled Sweetheart

I have several Sunflower Patches all thru the Gardens
Mostly Black Oil but some Ornamental
leaving those for the Table and the Birds

They have always been my Favorite

These are just opening

just like Sunshine

Look how much the Bees love them
thats another reason to plant them they attract bees to help pollinate the veggie patch

ahh a Photo OP lol
Everything is always taller than ME:)
notice those beautiful Pecan trees in the background

The Reds look so dareing looking:)

Chad took this pic I am still in such AWWW of it

That RED just pops against the Blue Sky

This is my first time having Orange ones

I just love how they are all so different
just like people

look closely can't ya just see a
smiling face:)

That looks like a nice Bouquet for the Smith Gangs Table

A Quick Kiss in the Garden

Blessings from the Smith Gang
May You all have a Wonderful Day