How it all began.

 

Someday's when I'm not feeling my usual optimistic self I wonder how it all began.

How I went from being a young woman who traveled the U.S in the back of a Semi to being a mother of 4 beautiful children and so lucky to have found a man that was willing to give me a dream.

On days when it's 10 below with the windchill and the ducks need fresh (not frozen) water, nights when it hasn't stopped raining for a week and I have to go up to the barn to tuck the pigs in -yup they actually get tucked in with a fresh blanket of straw.

Or on Mother's Day when I'm given Hereford piglets as a gift.

That's when I want to remember how it all started.

So here it is...

I was living up in Mid Michigan in a 40 acre farmhouse that my parents owned.
I was bored and looking at some online photo's when I came acrossed some posted that had no comments.
They were not bad, very average but I couldn't figure out why no one remarked on them-so I did.

That comment eventually turned into an IM which than led to a phone conversation (weeks later)
We got along so well and I was so comfortable that we set up a meeting and here we are, 3 1/2 years later.

After I moved in with him I begged for a dog...it took a year before he would even concider an animal and that was a cat. It ran away a week later. *wipes eye*

 That following spring a stray cat had a litter of kittens under our trailor (that's right we lived in an upscale trailor park but still had terrible issues with stray cat's)

We bidded our time, coaxed the kittens on the porch with food and BAM! caught the kittens under a box, took them to get fixed and vetted and than we had 3 fat house cat's.

That summer we finally found a house with enough property to get a dog and start a bigger garden.

That's how it all started, I liked his pictures and I ended up with a farm.

So much

Alright, alright I know it's been over a month but I have had so much happening both with the family and on the farm.

Spring is here and with that are so many more responsibilities.

We were on a hot streak there for awhile with the sale of our rabbits and now everything has come to a crawl so I have to post more ads.
 Seems like everywhere I previously posted them in person has had someone remove the posts.
 It's horribly frustrating.

My boyfriend bought me 2 Hereford piglets recently (Mothers Day gift) so they now occupy alot of my time.

One of my Boer goats are sick so much for medicating at a bare minimum.

To top it off our 10 year old Border Collie (who we were told was only 7 but we found vet papers stating otherwise) that we took in a year ago is showing her age and it is terribly frightening to me.

Other than that things are going as expected.

Michael bought a tractor and plays on it often.

Our lawn mower broke the back axle off last weekend, so thank goodness for the hay mower.

My oldest son is getting into trouble at school daily and maybe I'm biased but as I see it, I think it's largely due to lazy teaching, and bulling.

That's all I have for now, but I will be sure to post more often.

Wondering...

So we buy this big multi level house with all this land and everything is fairly fine until...

we start to lose power periodically in half our house.

This has been going on for about 2 weeks-usually only for 20 minutes max.

I normally wouldn't complain about any of this I lived without power off and on for half of my adulthood.

In most cases I enjoy the break of the "noise."  The distraction of what needs to get done around the house is perhaps my biggest addiction.

I think I am having such a difficult time with this particular outages is that  being it's partial my stove doesn't work, the refrigerator isn't working and I have a load of laundry "stuck" in the washer that of course won't unlock it's door because the power is out.

We have a generator, we have the cords to use it-we also have gas to get it going but-I'm afraid to hook it up.

Afraid of getting electrocuted, afraid of electrocuting someone else.
Maybe I'm afraid of being so danged independent that I won't need Mike to come and save us.

He really likes feeling like he saves us.

So for now here I am wondering if I am going to get up the gumption to hook the generator up and secretly praying that God will wave a finger at the electrical box and make that turn back on.

Guess I'll never know if I can do it until I try.

Fingers crossed-

Holy Cow! The power just turned back on.

Amazed!

Finally

Finally, that's all that I am feeling at this moment.

Finally, I got my very large garden plans done.

Finally, I got our two little doelings (young girl goats)

Finally, I have all the seeds I will need for this year.

Finally, I made it out to the barns with the kids and the camera.

Finally, we have bunnies for sale and even sold 4 already!

Finally, I feel like I am right where I should be-doing exactly what I should be doing.

Finally. I am so very overflowing with happiness.

Spring is underway!

I can not wait for this weekend!

I absolutely can not wait!

After canning and preserving 16lbs of strawberries yesterday I realised it's time to till the garden area.

Than while doing the animal chores I got really excited to see the bunnies eyes opened.

I seen a grouse on the side of the road waiting to cross, I seen the 2 Turkey buzzards that have been stalking me, fighting on top of the deer blind.

The red tailed hawk must be sitting because I haven't seen her in 2 weeks~I know she's a her because last fall she took her baby out for a flight but it never came back.

Spring is sprung!

The geese are all over again, Robins, Red winged Blackbirds, Cardinals and Blue Jays all have been frequenting my bird feeders for the last 2 weeks.

I am very eagerly awaiting my 75 Daffodils to sprout and grow that I planted last year and saved all fall from the rotten squirrels.

Oh and squirrels galore~I think I counted 7 different babies trying to rip off my bird feeders.

Now if only all this mud would dry up, I have gardening to do.

Things are coming along.

Well the time of waiting is over.
Or was over on last Thursday.

Amelia rabbit gave birth to 9 rolley polley black and grey bunnies.

Now we have to get two more rabbit hutches built on top of the chicken coop, and the preperations for the goats and piglets we have on order.

We are super excited about the growth of our furry friends.

Abigale is due in another week than we'll really be in a crunch to get more hutches going.

Glory to him for putting us on this awesome path!

The garden needs some planning.

Now is the time of year when I should be pouring over seed catalogs (that I don't have)

planning out what to plant where and how much.

Heres the deal, we have a plan...I think.

We want a huge garden that we can pick the surplus and take that to the local Farmers Markets and "share" for a little bit of barrdering or $. (of course)

So here I am, sitting in my jammies tring to figure out what I want and how much before next Saturday.

That's the very last day I can wait to start my seeds or my garden will go in late and our plans will be put on hold.
No way! I'm not taking the heat for this one.
I'm excited about this, nervous, a little stressed but mostly excited.

I think I know what I want to plant.
I have plenty of books about it,
plenty of visions.

This 10 inches of snow is distracting me, and the 3 cat's that are getting cabin fever and starting to eat my house plants and making me apprehensive.

So with all being said, my biggest plan for today is to go through my ideas one by one and start drawling and writting down my garden plan.