Quail_Antwerp: Words from the Barnyard...

[punkin]

I found that pic of Ernie!

http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/uploads/5_howwranglersshouldfit.jpg


He should be taking it easy on lifting saddles and such, Aly! :/

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

BEE!!!!!! You better delete that pic! Ernie will have a flippin' coniption fit!!!!!!!!!!

Another busy day here. Usual feeding and watering of the animals. Then I weedeated a bit.

Went to Becky's because she had Gracie's (shih tzu puppy) collar for me. Somehow it didn't leave the store with me, although it was on my receipt. She stopped in and talked to them about it with my receipt in hand and they gave her another one. She also sent me home with 5 landscaping timbers that I'm using for my breeder coops and more pallets for firewood/hay stacking.

After getting home from Becky's we had dinner and then Ernie talked me through step by step taking the alternator off my jeep. I TOOK THE ALTERNATOR OFF MY JEEP!!!!!! I got my hands greasy!!!!!!!!!

Anyhoo...then we planned out the to do list for tomorrow...We are taking 3 baby bunnies to the auction and 2 turkey poults. Then we are going to take the old alternator in and pick up the new one. Stop at the drive through feedstore for chicken feed. Then it's back to home to put the new alternator on my jeep.

After the jeep is done, I'll be digging holes for my posts to finish the breeder pens and then putting up the wire. I'd really like to have those pens done by the end of this week. We'll see, though.

 

[BeccaOH]

It was a fun weekend. I haven't been online once, though, to write about it. And I've decided that if all of us SS people lived real close, we probably wouldn't get a whole lot done due to all the time we'd spend gabbing.

Aly, you didn't tell them about the goat rodeo!

What day are you stretching the fence? That is really a 2-man job, and Ernie doesn't need to be exerting himself any more than he already has been.

 

[Farmfresh]

Yesterday was such a great day!!! Becky and our friend Resham with her husband all came to my house and helped me...

Lucky you Quail! Is is so good to have wonderful friends and you can get SO much accomplished while visiting and working together. Several years back a friend and I made a plan to "work share" for an entire summer! I was gutting walls out of my house, insulating and sheet rocking and she needed electrical work done on her house (an ex-husband had left her house unfinished and some of the hot wires were still exposed in the junction boxes!) She would come to my house one Saturday and slave for me and then the following Saturday I would go over and help her pull wires and finish all of the unfinished electrical. We would talk and laugh and always finish with lunch. Sometimes we even took in a yard sale in the afternoon which is where I found my kitchen double glazed replacement windows that fit PERFECTLY for $15.00!

We even took my 3 yo great niece with us. , but all evening she called me "Mama"! I told Ernie about it at the end of the fireworks. I figured he'd be shocked, but instead, he informed me that the entire time Becky and I were in town, our niece had been calling him "Daddy" all day!! ... I am going to have to talk to my nephew about it, because I don't want him to over hear her calling us that and get upset. Nor do I want him thinking we have taught her to call us that.

When was working at the Alternative school I had kids call me Mom all of the time. You are right it is just them feeling the (much needed) security and LOVE.

I would just give that little gal a big squeeze and a kiss (I did not do that at school by the way!) and remind her every time ..."I am not your momma, but I do love you". I would also talk to the nephew like you said. You don't want him to get angry or jealous. Her calling you those names is really NOT a reflection on how she feels for him - she has just broadened her family base and does not know how to properly "name" that yet.

At the school some of these kids were "actual and for real" criminals - way hard and mean (outside). Inside some of them were sad little children that needed some love. (They would still shoot you ... but they did need the love). They were usually VERY embarrassed when they "accidentally" opened up or called my Mom. I would either ignore it or half-jokingly and sarcastically reply "Love you too!" That allowed them to save "face" and a surprising number of them knew it was NOT a slap shot answer.

We had these kids an average of three years in our class before they were moved to another teacher so some of the relationships grew quite strong. It was a very effective way to teach some hard kids.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

It was a fun weekend. I haven't been online once, though, to write about it. And I've decided that if all of us SS people lived real close, we probably wouldn't get a whole lot done due to all the time we'd spend gabbing.

Aly, you didn't tell them about the goat rodeo!

What day are you stretching the fence? That is really a 2-man job, and Ernie doesn't need to be exerting himself any more than he already has been.

Oh yes, the goat rodeo!

I got a little buckling from our friend who also had gone to the farmer's market with us. We traded for him, actually. He's one of the twin goaties that was born a few months back that I had played midwife to

Anyway, he's really NOT that tame...er well he wasn't. They hadn't handled him a lot. So my friend and one of her daughters were trying to catch him to bring him up to our house. Well, that little bugger (whom we've name Houdini due to his escape tactics) is fast! He ran all over the pen and no one could get close to him. So I joined in the chase to help, but he kept getting past all of us. Up the hill, down the hill, around the bottom, back up the hill..etc. Another daughter joined the chase, and Houdini ran all the way up to the top side of the pen. I do believe it was at that point that Becky came in to help, and our friend finally was able to dive bomb him and caught him.

Now he's in the pen with Ginger, and Ginger was quite thrilled to have a friend to play with!

Becky, not sure when I'm going to run the wire. Maybe tomorrow if I can get the rest of the posts in this evening. Ernie and I were discussing the pen last night and I think we're going to run them long ways instead of into quads like I originally said. It will be less work to run wire that way, and I think will look neater.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Haven't really had much to talk about on my journal lately. Nothing that interesting going on this week.

Picked up 4 Pekin Ducks of breeding/laying age yesterday. Becca rode with us to get them.

I did barter for a pure bred Shih Tzu puppy a week ago. She's 10 weeks old. Didn't need her, just purely wanted her...and no money out of my pocket to get her was GOOD. We named her Gracie. She's black with a white chin and chest and two white little front paws. She's spoiled, sleeps in my bed, and is doing quite well with potty training.

and she's smarter than my yorkie.

Also, we found a home for another of Zoe's puppies, the little black tan and white female...she went to live on a farm where she's going to be a working dog. The remaining 4 pups have a potential home with another farm, where they will all be trained as working or hunting dogs.

 

[BeccaOH]

Post a pic of Gracie.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Ok here's a pic of Gracie, not near as cute as your pic of Dolly.

Here's one of her taking a nap with her blankie...

Haven't had a chance to take any better pics of her.

 

[lorihadams]

Too cute!!!!

 

[BeccaOH]

She is just two hands full of fluff!