Farm Happenings

We are off to a good start at the petting barn. Some days are great like Wednesday when we had  63 people, but other days are very slow & long.... Mostly because I am at the store, knowing that I have so much to do at home & that's hard. I don't think the weather helps it's too hot or too rainy.

Speaking of all the rain it's been impossible to make hay, making a very frustrated farmer Mark. He took a chance yesterday & it poured buckets. Plan b is to do wrapped/silage bales. He's been having a problem with the Grandpa tractor. He got parts & fixed it, but then the tire was going flat, so yesterday he brought it to be fixed. Flat again today, found another tire only to realize  hay/ field is too wet to rake...try again tomorrow & hope it doesn't rain tonight. Joys of farming.

On a positive note all the animals are doing great! We are checking everyday to see if our beef cow, Black Beauty has had her calf. That will be exciting, don't really care if it's a heifer or a bull, just want everything to go smoothly. Sheep are content, we move their pasture every 5-7 days & have had no worm issues. It's so nice to have the land to do that! We got the pigs out to pasture & they sure are enjoying the green grass. It's so cute at chore time when they come running for their food. Turkeys are lovin' their space. They make such  nice sounding little chirps. They love roaming around. Makes my heart content to see everyone outside and I feel so good knowing that we are going to have a abundance of tasty meat.

Nancy & K3

Daisy Duke & I

Star Flower & Bella

Nancy, waiting for some love.

3 week old Golden Comets