My Son

I decided that I needed to get some pictures of "my little man" on here since I had the picture of the three girls.



Sometimes I worry that he gets lost in the shuffle, but he seems to be able to hold his own with his sisters, lol.



He loves to go with his dad, too, so that helps.

More Pictures

I just thought I would put in a few more pictures that I took with my new camera. Did I mention that I LOVE it?

Here's a picture of foxtail barley that grows everywhere! My goats don't like it, but I think it's pretty.



I enjoy photographing nature as much or more than my kids, lol.

Here are some pictures of the goat kids frolicking. They're so funny. When one of them gets a wild hair, it just takes off running with ears flying everywhere. Then any baby in close proximity takes off with it.









Here's a couple of pictures of my youngest. It's been hard for me to figure out who she looks like.







You know how when you are watching your child and there are fleeting moments when you say, "Oh, that reminded me of my brother!" or "When she looks like that, she looks just like her sister!" Well, that never happens to me with Mariah, lol. She doesn't remind me of anyone. She's just...HER.

What is an SLE?

My good friend Dawn asked what an SLE is.

The single-lens reflex (SLR) camera uses an automatic moving mirror system which allows the photographer to see exactly what will be captured by the film or digital imaging system, as opposed to non-SLR cameras where the view through the viewfinder could be significantly different from what was captured on film. (information taken from WikiPedia)

It's the kind of camera that you can change the lenses on.

Been Away for a Few Days

We had a little mishap with the camera, so I didn't have pictures to post...the most important part, he he he.

Also, my computer was acting up, so I took it to the computer hospital, lol.

In Bismarck today, I bought myself a brand new digital SLE camera. OH MY GOSH!!!!!

I LOVE it!

I bought a Pentax since I already had lenses. (That's the brand of SLE I currently own.)

Here's a picture of My Three Girls:

Busy Week End

It was a busy week end here with odds and ends being the rule of the day.

On Saturday, we went to the Braddock 125th Anniversary celebration. We went to the parade but didn't stay long.

I'm not really a big fan of parades, but Dana likes them, so we go.

That afternoon, Dana and I hauled several loads of gravel to repair some of the damage done in these wonderful spring rains that we've been having.

We got everything ready to work on gates and fence, and then Sunday morning, Dana got a call.

Seems that the guy who was hired to haul combine Dana sold over the winter was here and needed some help loading the combine and header.

This turned into an eight hour ordeal and Dana wasn't able to work on the gates and fence which was a HORRIBLE disappointment to me.

We did manage to blade the driveway, so that's one thing off our list.

We also had a mishap with the camera, so no pictures for a bit.

Hope you all had a great week end!

A Little Shower

We had a little rain shower last night. According to the radar, there was LOTS of rain all around us, but we only got about .2" right here on the homestead. I would venture a guess that even some of our fields got more or less rain than we did right here at home.

Strange how that can happen.

Otherwise, things were pretty unremarkable on the home front yesterday.

I have two does that I think are going to kid any day now. he he he But, sometimes, "any day now" turns into a month, lol. I thought that with the front going through, that might send one or both of them into labor, but no such luck.

This morning, we're planning on going to Braddock for the celebration there. There's a parade and all kinds of things going on. Hopefully, they didn't get too much rain so it's a mess when we get there. I guess we'll see.

Thursday at Our House

Today was somewhat of a strange day.

The beginning was rocky as we LOST two baby goats!!!!

How does one lose two baby goats?

Well, I'm glad you asked.

The girls decided to sleep in the tent on the porch last night and they had taken three of the baby goats into the tent with them. The other two were in the barn.

However, when Olivia went in to feed them this morning, she couldn't find them.

I immediately assumed the worst...that they had somehow escaped and been eaten by coyotes or something equally dire.

Then, I finally settled down and figured out that there was NO WAY they could have escaped from the barn without help. So, I asked my two youngest if they had gone in and let the baby goats out and they finally admitted that they had.

So, we were back to missing baby goats, but at least we knew how they had gotten out of the barn.

We searched EVERYWHERE. We walked the pastures; we looked in the tall grass around the house; we even walked the tree stand.

Finally, my daughters found them snuggled under the deck...safe and sound.

So, we fed them and finished chores.

Dana decided that today would be a good day for FSA (Farm Service Agency) paperwork. We drove down to Linton, then back home for dinner. Then, we decided to go to Napoleon to do insurance paperwork.

While I was in Napoleon, my friend Sharon called and said that the keets (baby guineas) had arrived in the Post Office in Edgeley and that she was at the hospital with her daughter and would not be able to pick them up. We had made a deal to split an order of keets since you have to order quite a few so they'll survive the shipment. Neither of us need 50 guineas, so we decided to split the order.

Here's a picture of the keets. Aren't they cute!



We brought them home and got them settled in, then Olivia and I finished chores.

As the baby goats had full tummies, they all settled in for a nap.

Three of them had snuggled down.



Then, another one decided that he would sure like to snuggle down with them. "Hey, let me in!"



Finally, he gave up and lay down for a snooze.



So, that was Thursday at our house. How was your day?