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The best part of bee keeping! The pay off!! I've never pulled honey this early but the girls are going so hot and heavy ...
05/06/2026

The best part of bee keeping! The pay off!! I've never pulled honey this early but the girls are going so hot and heavy I was running out of equipment for them to put more honey in! What a great way to spend a rainy day- extracting honey!

It's a girl!! We got the dna back today and our sweet little one is a girl!!
03/10/2026

It's a girl!! We got the dna back today and our sweet little one is a girl!!

We got one baby- sadly the other 2 didn't get out of the shell alive. We have more eggs in the incubator though- and w...
03/02/2026

We got one baby- sadly the other 2 didn't get out of the shell alive. We have more eggs in the incubator though- and we did get one terribly cute little fellow!! Sent its egg shell off for dna so hopefully we'll know if it's a boy or girl soon!

It has begun!! One emu egg has pipped!!
02/28/2026

It has begun!! One emu egg has pipped!!

It's been 49 days- we've moved the emu eggs to the hatching incubator- if they are going to hatch it will be any day now...
02/25/2026

It's been 49 days- we've moved the emu eggs to the hatching incubator- if they are going to hatch it will be any day now!! We are pretty sure we've seen 2 of them rock so we think at least 2 of the 3 are alive!

I mentioned yesterday that we were busy busy busy on the farm this weekend- but tonight is the first chance I've had to ...
02/23/2026

I mentioned yesterday that we were busy busy busy on the farm this weekend- but tonight is the first chance I've had to tell y'all about it. So it's been a minute since I came up with a lesson from the farm, not really since i been sober, so let's see where this goes-
Today's farm lesson is "do the evening check"
I knew it was gonna be busy cuz I'd rented a mini excavator for the weekend. I spent friday helping a friend process 50 quail AND finally fixed Karen's sink! It's broke again BUT it's broke in a new place now- i swear I'll fix it.... soon.
Saturday morning started off with a doe (goat) finally delivering her babies during the night- she gave us a beautiful set of M/F twins! WOOT! (she had been faking us out for 2 weeks then finally delivered.... on her due date)
Pick up the mini ex--- you are not gonna believe how cute this thing is!! It's TINY and you sit up high on it but the seat and controls are low so it looks and feels like your driving a tonka toy! Get it home and get to work! Work till dark (the barn was NASTY!) .
Saturday night when I did evening checks on them- the doe was clearly favoring the boy over the girl (I know! Yep- goats do mommys boy too!) It was going to be very cold last night so I brought the girl in for the night. I do this often and I give the baby frozen colostrum overnight, I expect mom to be willing to take care of them after 1 night separation and they usually do. She did. So today I WORK! I'm using that little dirt digging tonka toy to dig every hole i could possibly want on my property and bury a bunch more!
Tonight- I do evening check. It's COLD out there!! I'm tired! Momma goat has left the little BOY on the back porch!! (Guess she decided she'd keep the mommys girl!) And she took the little girl into the least populated shed and stood looking down at her shiver!!!
So I had to pull both babies tonight. :( Mom's mad but I know when she gets cold she'll go back to the warm shed and forget about those babies till morning!
So today's lesson is: " Do the evening check" even if it's just opening the back door and listening for a problem. I used to be really good about that- I'd do the checks EVERY NIGHT but as I've gotten older and more sober I find more parts of me hurt in the evenings. I don't even remember to lean out the back door and listen most nights anymore. But I should- that's how I catch things like babies left alone in the cold on the back porch step-.... I mean really? and she swapped the favorite baby to boot!

Busy busy busy day on the farm!! Today "ConstanTINA" we call her Tina and try not to confuse her with our good friend ( ...
02/22/2026

Busy busy busy day on the farm!! Today "ConstanTINA" we call her Tina and try not to confuse her with our good friend ( Tina Varnum Perez ) gave us 2 new babies!! We always hope for a flashy girl but this time I was actually hoping for a flashy boy as I'm considering keeping him. So of course Tina (the goat) gave me a plain Jane boy and put all kinds of flash on the girl!! Both babies and momma are doing great! What an awesome day on the farm!!!

I've had this aloe plant since around 2005- so about 20 years. It's made a ton of babies- and I've discovered it's har...
02/15/2026

I've had this aloe plant since around 2005- so about 20 years. It's made a ton of babies- and I've discovered it's harder to give away an aloe plant than it is to give away puppies! But I've never seen it bloom--
It's making a bloom
How cool is that!?!

More babies!! Tigger gave us two more beautiful little girls on the 19th! I just love this Pic of her and her girls!
01/22/2026

More babies!! Tigger gave us two more beautiful little girls on the 19th! I just love this Pic of her and her girls!

Max takes true joy in his job cleaning up baby bottoms! Lol!
01/19/2026

Max takes true joy in his job cleaning up baby bottoms! Lol!

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Falkville, AL
35622

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