Rainy Days

are for hanging out with your best friends!

How do you spend your rainy days?

My Day

I started my morning out by heading to barn to feed the goats and chickens. On the way out I paused to watch 20 something butterflies on this one plant! There seems to be more butterflies around this year and I've seen several honey bees on my sunflowers.

Bella's mad at me. I have cut back on her grain and we've moved to milking every other day and I will slowly decrease this and then stop milking all together. I have no more room in the freezer for milk! I think I have enough to last my husband through the winter until the does kid again in the spring. Plus I want to give her some time to rest between milking and getting bred again.

Got that done and headed back to the house to check on my oldest. He's at home today with a cold.

He was still in bed watching a movie when I came back in so I headed out to the garden and picked these two buckets of tomatoes.

Hopped on the 4-wheeler and headed to the pond to check on the geese. They found the pond last week and haven't been back to the barn since! On the way there, I spotted this gal getting a drink.

She stopped and posed for me for just a second before slipping off into the bushes.

The geese love the pond! They won't come and eat until I drive away. I think they are afraid I'll make them go back to the barn!

On the way back I noticed the persimmons are growing. I finally get to make persimmon jelly this year using my steam juicer. I've never been patient enough to peel and remove all those seeds before!

The apple tree is LOADED this year and next on my list of things to can, steam and freeze.

Jake's feeling a little better this afternoon but he's still in his PJ's! I gave the puppers a bath this morning and they were in the mood to play!

I managed to dry three loads of laundry on the line today in between the other things I've had going on, and I turned those tomatoes into these.

Another 9 and a half quarts to put in the pantry for chili and homemade vegetable soup this winter. Yum!

I have finally sat down to do my "paying" job now. I'd rather take a nap like Biscuit!

Today's one of the slower days at the clinic so I'll have about 2 hours of work then supper, baths, family time and bed.....then start all over again tomorrow!

Thanks for sharing my day with me!

Don't forget about the magazine give away!

Wanted: Egg Washer

Wanted: Egg-washer in the Western KY area to wash multiple eggs given by these pretty ladies each and every day.

Job may be seasonal depending on the mood of the ladies! Sometimes they refuse to work when it's cold.

Benefits include spending your free time playing with these youngsters

Or cuddling these babies

They are just too cute and fluffy!

Or sleeping like these two.

Can't get any egg washing out of Biscuit and Bessie. The hardest work they do is occasionally chasing a butterfly (usually in their sleep) or barking at the deer and turkey that frequent the feeding area out back.

Or you can sit in the rockers on the porch and enjoy the roses

or clematis on the lamp post....

Hurry this job opening will not last long!

Fine print: These benefits may end on Saturday with the arrival of our milk goat. Goat milker will be added to the title of egg washer and full time employment will be established!
Just don't tell Nellie that she has competition coming!

How Much

for those doggies in the window?

I let them out to use the bathroom this morning and I didn't realize it had started raining until I heard a tapping at the window. Guess who?? So I took their pic and then let them inside.

Hope they make you smile!

He Finally Posed!

after much begging on my part and following him around with the camera, Biscuit decided to give in and let me catch a few of his personality traits.

I am so in love with this guy!

Mr. Serious

Mr. I'm Perfect, You Gotta Love Me!

Mr. I Love My Boy and He Loves Me

and Mr. I Look Like A Bobble Head Doll - Is That A Treat In Your Hand?

He's such a smart guy and he's a tattle tale! If I'm in my office working and he starts barking then I know Bessie is doing something she's not supposed to. He will bark until I come and take whatever she's chewing on or dragging around. Yesterday, he even barked like crazy until I came and found a little pile of poop in the corner LOL. We're still working on the "no pooping in the house" part!

Please Welcome

Biscuit and Bessie, full-blooded, adorable, sweet, loving Bassets! We have had Biscuit aka "Big Boy" and Bessie aka "Sweet Girl" for 10 days now and they have stolen all our hearts.

Biscuit is the red and white, Bessie is the blue/gray (close to tri-colored but her black has a gray sheen to it). I can already tell you all that you're going to be seeing a lot of these guys and hearing plenty of hound dog stories!

They've got Daddy wrapped around their big fat paws already!



Oh and me too, of course! Please excuse my lovely twisted-up-in-a-knot, I'm-a-farm-girl hair style.

and the boys are in Heaven




Bessie is the camera hog. She knows she's beautiful!





and then there's Biscuit, I usually get something like this from him.

or this, the "get that camera outta my face" look!

Unless he's asleep..

but sometimes he wants attention too!

They are such sweethearts and already a huge part of our family! Just look at them faces! How could you not love something so precious??