Oh what a beautiful morning

Oh what a beautiful day. Today we started to plough the garden. Joe took us on a wagon ride before he got started just to calm the girls down and because we all find it enjoyable. You couldn't have asked for a nicer day or better weather.

Happy Children

Things moving along

We got the plough in working condition today. The kids had fun playing on the equipment as Joe worked. My seedlings are coming along well and the chicks are getting big. We should be able to plough the garden as soon as the ground dries out a little more.

Old iron

Auction

Another auction. This time for farm equipment, horse drawn farm equipment. A fried of Joe's gave him the newspaper clipping. We all looked forward to this for over a week. It's funny haw even the kids count the days to a good farm auction.
We got more then our share at a great price. In fact we should have got more to fix up and sell. We got 3 mowers, a potato digger and planter, cultivator, 2 manure spreaders and a lot more. I had to make two trips to get it all home and even then the trailer was about as full as I have ever seen it. We added 2 more things after this picture.

New babies

Joe let me get a few new chicks today. Nine to be exact and three turkeys. I'm looking forward to seeing how the turkeys will do as they will be living with the chickens. I have read that they can get sick and die from things chickens carry. Also I have all my seeds planted and under lights. My basement is looking a little full with the garden things and now a pen for the chicks. At least it's only temporary.

More Snow

Still only a few inches, not relay as much as it looks like. The snow blew into the basement stairs and was half way up the door. Made it a little hard to go out and feed

eggs

The chicks are staring to lay eggs! Karlee took pictures to try to show the size of the eggs. We are getting about 11 eggs a day out of 14 hens. Not to bad for this time of the year and their age.

Where did my donkey go, if you've seen him let me know

We had a snow storm last night and this morning. We got a few inches of snow but it mostly just blew around and made drifts. Arthur, the donkey, has an amazingly thick coat and seams to enjoy in the snow more then the rest of us. This is him after the wind stopped. Joe said, "Hay look at Arthur." And I looked up right at him and said, " Where is he, I don't see him." He was harder to spot in real life but it makes a good picture all the same. In about an hour he had all the snow off and looked like himself again.

St Patrick's Day

So yesterday I was sick. I had planed to make an Irish supper and leprecon cookies for the kids. We don't relay celebrate Holidays like this but I thought it was a good excuse to learn a little about Ireland. I made the cookie dough in the morning and did my chores but by 9:30 I was on in the phone crying to Joe. I'm a big baby when it comes to being sick and my body hurt so bad all I wanted to do was sleep. Thanks to the boys who will find any reason to fight, rest was unlikely. So Joe has a talk with them on the the phone and the rest of the day went great. I have no idea what he said but it worked. Today I am feeling a little better so I make the cookies, better late then never, I will make my fun supper and we will learn about Ireland tomorrow.

First ones up

This morning I had broccoli up! It only took 3 days. I bought a heat mat this year because it is cool in the basement and last year it took almost 2 weeks for things to come up. I knew the mat would help them along but I never dreamed it would bring them up that fast.

This is where Joe was working today!

First planting

Today I started getting things ready to plant my broccoli, tomatoes, peppers and onions. I should have had my onions in a few weeks ago but better late then never. I decided to make little newspaper pots last year to try to save money but this year I have so many to make I'm not sure it will be worth it.

Second tooth

Hank lost his second tooth last night about 8:30. What a way to get to go to bed late!

Buster

A big horse for a big boy

We talked Hank into riding Joe's horse today. He loved it. His new saddle fit Puppy great and she listened to him really well. Now the twins have horses to ride and I'm stuck walking.

He looks good.

Fence

We finished putting up electric fence yesterday and turned everyone out but Buster (stud) and the donkey. Buster gets to go out at night when the girls are in and poor Artur is stuck in all the time. He just walks right through the fence like it's not on.

The kids had fun playing outside as I took pictures of the horses.

More teeth

Hank lost his first tooth! It fell out getting into the pickup. He had a great day, playing at the shop with Daddy and loseing a tooth!
Karlee lost her second tooth today.

Love and teeth

Today Karlee lost her first tooth. She had Joe tie a string to it and then to a heart trivet. She carried this around for sometime and and when she was going to the bathroom she go hung up on the string and out came the tooth. We decided not to do the Tooth Fairy with the kids but she got $5 from Daddy. The rest of her teeth will only bring $1 each as long as she saves her money. Same will go for Hank when his teeth start to come out.

Hank, Karlee and I made decorations for Valentines this morning. Then we frosted hart cookies. Happy Valentines Day!