New Years Day 2009

For our News Years meal, in the kitchen I made us - baked chicken, BBQ sauce on the side, potato salad, sweet peas, and served a Snapple Noni Berry (sugarfree).
My news Years resolutions are the same as always:
1. lose weight
2. lose weight
3. exercise
4. save money
5. try to be a better friend and neighbor
6. don't bring any more animals home
7. try not to mouth off at work
8. lose more weight
9. be a better inlaw
10. try not to mouth off at home

Stayed cold outside, and our boys found a spot in the sun.

Nougat looking over the fence, watching Mike work.

Nougat standing on his new landscape timbers.

Franklin! get your head out of the grain bag!

yeah turkey, you're a pig!

Franklin get back to your patrolling

RP, Wheaten Marans cockerel sunning

had to poke holes through the ice to get some water

Yuri, Spangled Russian Orloff rooster standing with some standard Ameraucana hens

Yada, Spangled Russian Orloff hen

Dec 26

I made Mike and I a big pot of tasty soup today - chocked full of veggies, a little meat, with a rich tomato, garlic, shallots, onion thing going on.

When we have the boys and girls out together, Mike keeps Dud on a leash so he doesn't breed the girls, we have Nougat mating Clara and June. A year from now, SweetPea and Dud will be boyfriend and girlfriend. Out in the yard today, SweetPea kept trying to ram Dud in the butt. Funny entertainment.

SweetPea and her goat mama, June. I'm her human mama. Yesterday, I layed a blanket in the backyard and thought she might lay down beside me. She pounced all over me, raring up, kicking up, I'm lucky I don't have any broken ribs. She likes to treat me like a trampoline. Mike tells people if anything ever happened to SweetPea, he reckoned he'd have to bury me too. I'm absolutely in love that little goat. She's three months old now and I got her, (and her mama, and her grandma) when she was just two weeks old.

Nougat kept massaging his head on the chair, maybe he had a headache.

June and SweetPea

Franklin, June and Punkin

Franklin, Bourbon Red tom, just a pet. He has two hens plus he had two daughters to hatch late this summer. Turkey eggs at the Farmers Market have gotten very popular for us so we're thrilled we'll have two more hens. Our turkey girls have been excellent layers.

one daughter

second daughter

Look at Nougat's lips, and Clara

Thanksgiving Eve - post from Franklin 11/26/08

Posted by Franklin
Thanksgiving and Christmas are filled with humans who think they are soooo funny - they've always got the:
now, wouldn't you look good on the table for the holidays, or
you're so big, you could feed several families.
I'm not gonna be food for any dang body.
Besides, those two tubby humans that I live with, you can tell by looking at 'em, thay haven't missed any meals.
Anyway, I've got a lot of responsibilities:
to supervise the poultry lot
be a Daddy to my three little ones - Benji, Annie, and Ally
and take care of their Mama's - Franny and Sally.
So, take your:
isn't he a BIG one (wide-eyed while drooling)
and go stuff yourself!

Backyard Photo's from Sept'08 - 11/20/08

The Cuckoo chicken girls raised 3 Bourbon Red turkey babies, the other 2 are under them.

These are photo's taken by me in our backyard Sept '08, weather was much nicer back then, has been bitterly cold and some snow for last few days.

Franklin, our Bourbon Red tom, a pet.

Hazel checking out the fall flowers.