Two days...

Future barn?!

Can you tell I'm excited to paint? Well...not excited to paint but am loving picking out colors for our very "own" walls!

Blue skies and sunshine!

Hay Run!

"Some old fashioned things, like fresh air and sunshine, are hard to beat."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder



 

We need a truck.  But before we decided to be wannabe farmers, we were parents of small children, so we bought a mini-van.  So our "beater" or "ole, pick-up truck" is disguised as a Japanese made mini-van. 

 

Today, we took out the middle seats of the mini-van and drove to Farmers Andy and Barbara's place to get four bales of hay! 

 

*** (an aside) J met these two lovely farmers, by chance, when he answered a Craigslist ad they had posted (hay for sale) a few months ago.  Some of you may also remember that we found our current rental home though a Craigslist ad, way over three years ago.  Who knows what adventure Craigslist will lead us on next?!

 

Farmer J and I were in the front of the van, then the hay, then the boys in the back.  The boys said the hay got a little itchy and scratchy at times... but for the most part, it was a great trip.  And who notices a little hay when you are drinking a milkshake made with milk from the first place white milk winner at the world dairy expo?  Not us! 

 

We got healthy hay for our animals, a tour of Farmer Andy and Barbara's amazingly beautiful (and tidy) farm (including seeing a day old baby calf (that already weighed more than JJ), many baby Suffolk lambs (and mamas) and a 2000 + lb bull) that expands hundreds of acres of beautiful oak savannah/prairie AND some refreshing lemonade and snacks.  Throw in some vitamin D from the sunlight... and even some rosy cheeks and foreheads (forgetting that we do sometimes need sunblock in the northern Midwest), some fresh air and..... Ahhhhhh.... a perfect way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

 

And our furry and feathered friends loved the excitement (and afternoon snack) of the new hay! 

 

Spring... please come to us!

We have had April showers... and are longing for May to be full of flowers!  The forecast ensures us sunshine is coming our way this weekend.  After a week of gloomy skies, cold rain and wet earth... we are anxiously awaiting dry, sunny weather!

"That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs."
-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

This gal really wanted her picture taken.  I think she thought my bright, red phone was food!

 Our little boy lambs are getting so big...and so fast!  We can only catch them if we sneak up on them when they are nursing.  I know, that's not very nice of us... but they are so warm and soft and fun to snuggle.  You just have to make sure you have a hold of their hoofs-- or you'll get a hoof in your mouth!  We have never had a set of boy twins before... and they are certainly more daring and wild than any set of twins we have had yet!  Beatrix is really looking pregnant and I'm crossing my fingers that she will have twin GIRLS to counter act these wild little guys!

 

 Beatrix and Aoife are getting in a little back scratch, by way of the lilac tree branches!

 

 And wherever Aoife is... Ciaran is not far behind.  He is so in LLLOOOOVVVEEEE with Aoife!

 

 A before bed frolick in the yard...

 

Have a lovely night!

Farmer J and the Mrs.



Moving is fun!

I see moving boxes as work... The boys see them as a fun way to build a huge fort! Ahhhhh, life through the eyes of a child!

Happy Goat!

Padraig loved yesterday's warm weather!

I sat outside for almost a hour, basking in the sun and watching my furry fellas!

It's a great day

... To be a baby lamb... And butterfly!