Farting Dogs and New Vacuum Cleaners

I'd like to introduce to you the newest member of our family. Mademoiselle Eureka. She is lightweight and compact. A perfect fit to our family. Hopefully she'll have a long wonderful life with us.

Well thank goodness we cancelled the BBQ, it rained more yesterday than it did for hurricane Bill! I woke up this morning to find that part of the pasture fence had been smooshed by a large tree limb. Something else for hubby to fix today. The hurricane Danny was supposed to be worse today, but it's really nice out now. Except that it's flipping cold!!!! I think that God flicked the switch to cold the last few days. Yesterday, it was 50 degrees F..Brrrrr. Today it's not much warmer.

I was going to put the goats out today, the electric wire

is still ok, but Febe has a bad case of the scours since she got hold of the bag of dulse!!! So she's got to stay in and eat hay to get rid of the scours. I thought I had put the bag far enough out of reach, but I guess not. Dave went to check on them

last night in the pouring rain and saw that she had pulled the garbage bag full of dulse on the floor and they were just chomping away. I'm surprised her milk didn't taste like dulse this morning.

Last night we were trying to watch a movie, since the satellite dish wasn't coming in because of the rain and Roxie our dog was farting. Oh mylanta! She is stinky. I thought a skunk had snuck into the house! Whoa!

Well I have to get ready for church. I thought I'd include an afterthought of hubby burning his finger on our little picnic on Friday.

Have a Blessed Day

Lisa

Squattermelons

We have a mystery here on Spring Peeper farm. In the manure pile we have something growing. We are not sure what it is. Does anyone have any ideas? A couple of years ago we had a squattermelon in the garden. Some how a watermelon and a speghetti squash had cross pollinated. We thought we had planted them far enough apart, but I guess not. The outside looked like a watermelon, the inside looked like a speghetti squash but it smelled like a watermelon.

Yesterday Dave brought the tiny meat kings to the slaughter house. They looked more like cornish hens than roasters. We don't know what happened. We have a new batch of them and at 2 weeks old, they are almost as big as some of the other meat kings we kept. They were a sad, ragtag looking bunch.

We also went to Upper Clements Park. Its a kids park with rides and such. It was fun. Then we had a picnic for supper.

We had to cancel the chicken BBQ. It was for supper today. We were going to make it for lunch, because it only gave showers for the evening. But then they changed the forcast and it said the rain was going to start at noon. So we called everyone on the list to cancel. I'm glad we did, because it was raining at 9am this morning. I'm leaving the goats in the barn for today. Their pasture is surrounded by trees and when its windy I'm afraid it'll blow some of the trees on their heads. Some of the tree tops have already fallen.

So this time it's hurricane Danny that we are supposed to get. It's not supposed to be bad though. Watch, this one will be worse than the first one.

Well gotta go and make cabbage rolls for supper. It's only my second time and it takes me the whole day to make them.

Have a Blessed Day.

Lisa

Whale watching

I'm soooo tired. We went whale watching today with Elaine and Ron. They loved it, but I was soooo sick. I'm not seasick as a rule. Well, really I'm never seasick. But I have a middle ear problem that is starting to get worse as I age (eventually I will be deaf in that ear) and it's starting to cause dizziness and I think that might have been my problem. Here's a photo of a lighthouse on the way in from whale watching and Dave took a picture of a very nauseous me. I could barely move. Do you see the green around my gills?

It also wasn't the best whale watching we saw. We did see whales but they didn't jump or fluke (wave their tails). So we didn't get any good photos. On the way back I was feeling a bit better and J. and I saw a seal. He was cute.

We are planning a large chicken BBQ here Saturday.About 50+ people are invited and I guess there's a hurricane also invited. Well we didn't invite it, but it's inviting himself. Grrrr. So we have a case of chicken ordered at the store. What on earth are we supposed to do. We can't bring a case of chicken home and not use it! We don't have the fridge or freezer space! We can't keep it till the next weekend because Dave is doing a BBQ for the church next Saturday and then works the weekend after. Then it's getting too cold to make a BBQ like that. Oh, I'm so disgusted.

Well I'll keep you informed with our conundrum tomorrow.

Have a Blessed evening

Lisa

Beets and fish

Today I think that the mugginess has finally departed the area. It was hot today, but it wasn't a sticky heat. I picked all the beets in the garden and I had a whole 3 bottles!! Woohoo! My garden was so pathetic this year. It was sad, sad,sad. I just want Dave to till the whole darn thing and be gone with it! I've been throwing the weeds to the chickens. They just love it!

My sister in law, Elaine and her husband are down from Alberta for a weeks vacay. They came for supper tonight. We made BBQ porkchops, corn and sliced taters on the Barbie. It was good. The pork was ours and so was the cucumber. If the garden had produced the taters and the corn would have been ours also. Grrrr

After supper Dave and our son went fishing. Dave caught pickeral and J. caught a white bass. He was excited. We just watched from the sidelines.

The piggies are still thriving. They all go outside now. So cute to see them root around in the mud like their mum. Then when it's time to go in, she actually calls to them and they all run to her. So cute!

Dave finished J's tree fort. He was happy about that!

Have a Blessed evening.

Lisa

Another day.

It is with deep regret that I must inform you of the demise of my dearly departed vacuum cleaner. He passed away today at 10:42 a.m. of an undisclosed illness at the young age of 16 years old. He was brave right to the end. His sucking power will be greatly missed. :(

Ugh, now I have to find 100$ to replace mister vacuum. I knew his days were numbered, because he was losing his sucking power and some days he would give out these noises that I can't put into words. So just take my word for it.

Well we survived hurricane Bill. It was more like hurricane wimp. I've seen more wind at work with the guys. We had about 15 mm of rain and hardly any wind. I guess I should be grateful. It did break two branches off our poplar trees. The goats are happy about that!

I dewormed Febe for the second time today. You have to deworm them once then, again in 2 weeks. I dewormed Eve and Whisper for the first time today also. They are not fans of the dewormer. I can't imagine that it's all that good.

I picked our blueberry bush clean tonight after I got home from grocery shopping in town. (Town is 45 minutes away) We used to have half a dozen bushes laden with blueberries, but the heavy snows and old age took their toll on the bushes and now we have one left. We've planted more but it'll take years before we can reap anything from them. I noticed that my hibicus has flowered in the back yard.

The piglets are going outside now. It's so cute!! Momma has a watchful eye out for them, but they just run around. They are getting so big.

Well that's it for tonight. Hubby just got home from picking up his sister and her husband at the airport. They're home for a few weeks on vacation.

Have a Blessed Evening!
Lisa

Batten down the hatches!

I'm officially on vacation for a week! Woohoooo!!!! While I was at work today, hubby tied everything down that could be tied down. We are supposed to be getting lots and lots of wind and about 100-150 mm of rain in a 24 hour period. This should be interesting.

I've made some slow cooker granola so we'll have something to eat in case the power goes out. Really it's just an excuse to make it. It's so good!!! If any of you want the recipe I can post it.

Dave gave the piglets their second shot of iron today. Momma was not happy!! We are doing this farming as humanely as possible. We beleive that happy animals are healthy animals. We are in no way, shape or form vegetarians, but we don't think the animals destined for our plates needs to be mistreated and abused. So in saying this, we are not using farrowing crates with the pigs. The local pig farmer didn't think it could be done. He kept telling Dave that she was going to have the babies outside or she was going to kill them by stepping on them, yada yada yada. We only lost one and it was because of our stupidity. But in saying this, no farrowing crate does make things a bit trickier. Like needling 9 piglets with a 600 lb mama trying to eat you! So he had to lure Charlotte with Oreo sippers (her favourite snack) outside then close the door.

Needless to say there was alot of squealing going on in the barn and alot of barking going on outside the barn. (Pigs bark when ticked off!!)

But everything went well and they are all happy. Dave is a bit worried for Charlotte. He finds that she's not eating and drinking enough. But she likes her veggies and fruit and the pig farmer told us that she needed pig ration. She didn't like it. So when Dave gave her the usual veggies she gobbled it down. But I also think with all this heat she's just too hot to eat. The goats aren't eating like they used to and they don't weigh 600lbs and 9 babies running after them!!

Well it's time to sign off and hope we don't float away!

Have a Blessed evening

Lisa

Awaiting hurricane Bill

One more day and I'm on VACATION!!!!!! Wooohoooo!!!!! It's going to start on a wonderful note, a hurricane. Isn't it just grand!

Is there a reason why there is only 24 hours in a day? I'm wondering if its possible to add hours to the day, because I need more hours!!!!I have so much laundry to put away. That was my plan for tonight, but we only got home from practicing our special at 8:30p.m. Argh!

Hubby and I sing duets at church every once in awhile. Not only are we singing Sunday, but I'm also leading worship. Well that's if the hurricane doesn't sweep us away. We're singing "Step into the water" it might be an appropriate song with the hurricane.

My sister in law and her husband are coming next week from Alberta. We're going to go whale watching. The funnest (is that a word?) part of whale watching is watching the expression on our son's face. He's a whale and dolphin fanatic. We tried going whale watching when my penpal from Australia came down in July, but the boat cancelled on us. Grrrrr.

Well time for beddy bye.

Have a Blessed evening.

Lisa