We’d like to welcome grandchild #7 to the fold! Matthew Lawson Davis joins his twin brothers Waylon and Wyatt Davis. He was born six hours before his scheduled C-section… an overachiever? He was a healthy 7 pounds, 11 ounces and 21″ long. Everyone is doing fine. Like his brothers, the parents prefer his face not…
R U Dun?
More cows. More riding. More sun. More fun! (Vernon said he had to take a picture of me because my dog matches my horse perfectly! So is Panama a sable or is Eden a dun??? “Eden, are you dun?”)
Ponies Waiting
Got ready to sit down and write… Where’s my camera????? After a trip out to check the vehicles, it occurred to me, it’s probably still in my bee barn from this afternoon’s quick check. Way to go. The bees seem to be ok, I had returned to remove the queen cages and check that they…
Family Operation
It’s a busy time around here… We can put cows out on our BLM allotments now, so the guys have been working on that, and finally, today, I actually got to ride along! Yesterday was a process day… and everyone was there to help. Here’s Johnny working the alleyway, and four of his great grandchildren…
Babysitters
Two cows were babysitting about 25 calves when I drove by today… That’s a pretty high ratio! I wonder what the going rate at this nursery is?
Bee Friends
I was supposed to help ride today… It’s time to kick the cows out onto pasture! But… some-bee-dy interfered! I *had* to finish my beehive I started making because I bought TWO, yes, two packages of bees last night. I was extremely lucky to have three friends stop by to help! I wouldn’t have got…
Decisions, Decisions
Pardon me… but it’s gonna be one of those times when I toot my own horn. Multiple times in the history of this blog, I’ve entered a post or two in some competition. Most contests I pass by because they’re more of the “have-your-friends-vote popularity contests” than true competition, but I entered the BlogHer Voice…
Wordless Wednesday – “Spring?”
But! But! I thought it was spring?
Top Bar Hive Refurbished
My new bees will be coming Thursday (maybe… a blizzard is predicted for tomorrow, so we’ll see if that slows him down). Newbees, happy dance! Newbies! La la la… So, I’m refurbishing Messopotamia, my secondhand top bar hive… and since it’s all pretty now, I think I’ll have to rename it! There were holes in…
Minute Movie: “Swish, Dally”
So… it’s not really “swish” , more like “swiss”, but I figured “Swiss Dally” might conjure up something entirely different than my fat little dog chasing a cow! Some people might spell it “Pssst”, but I have no “p” in my little command. “Sssssss” looks snaky. Anyway… here’s a little Minute Movie from last week……
A Shot at Straw Bale Gardening
We had a bit of rain and snow this morning… great for moisture, which we really need! I worked outside and in today… Here’s my straw bales this morning… I have them in an “E” shape, with the brace left over from last year’s pole beans as a support along the back. The smaller poles…