Farmer Life 168

This is going to be a short post.  It's mostly to share a video my hubby took when Jack was first learning to climb.  It is a bit blurry at parts, but totally worth watching because it is out of this world CUTE! Direct Link to Video https://youtu.be/OXSH5mJHvT4 Is that not adorable??  I do have one photo for those who can't watch videos..... His first time hanging upside down on his branch!  Cute!!!!

Want to know what is the cutest thing ever??  A baby squirrel learning to eat solid foods!!!!!!!  Jack was so cute when he first started learning to hold things in his paws and to taste new solid foods.  I'll let the photos and video speak for themselves.  :D He was trying so hard to sit up with the food in his paws. He very quickly learned to carry his food off and hide it. It's so crazy the things he does that all squirrels do even without a role model showing him.  Instincts are strong in these little guys! See the apple slice between his paws? Then he picked it up and I almost died at the cuteness! He had to learn to eat his rodent food and squirrel block before he was allowed to have tastier things because they get very picky, very quickly.  Yes I used a terracotta pot for his first house lol. He eventually got to start tasting new things like the apple above and these greens.  I'm mean, I put it on his head hehe.  He wasn't sure what to do....

October was..... I don't know.  I didn't get much reading done though, that's for sure. Amazon Link I loved Muffins and Mourning Tea which I knew I would.  It is book five in the Oxford Tearoom Mystery series that I love so much.  This one was no different.  It was awesome! Amazon Link It took forever to finish this book and that's the main reason I didn't get much read in October.  It was a good book, but it just could not hold my interest.  When I'm really stressed out it takes a good book to keep me interested.  I just had a lot going on...  this book does fill the H book category though, so I'm getting close to finishing the whole alphabet. Also I forgot to mention a book I read... I think in September. Amazon Link This was a short story, so I don't know if I want it to count for my list, but if I can't find another X book, it may have to.  I actually really liked this book and I normally hate short stories because they just aren't long e...

Sorry no pictures.  I haven't had time.  Things have been a.... ****storm at work lately and it's had me extremely stressed.  I've barely read anything and I'm way behind on my October reading update, but I'll get it up this weekend. I just wanted to update you on everyone really quick and to say I'm sorry I haven't been reading blogs or blogging lately.  I've been working a lot of over time and when I'm not working I'm cleaning house and doing chores.  I haven't had time for anything lately. First up, the horses (and donkey).  Everyone is doing fine.  Chrome's injury is coming along well.  They are fat and happy and ready for the cold weather (which we haven't had yet, it's been a very warm, very dry fall). The goats are doing great.  We've bred Coral, Topaz, Garnet and Pearl to Crockett.  Jade has been separated because she is too small to breed this year.  Her growth seems to be stunted and we aren't a hundred percent s...

 I have been wanting to write this post for SO LONG!!!!!!!!!  The reason I've waited for over a month was to make sure the newest member of the family was going to survive infancy.....  meet Jack! Watch this video, you HAVE to watch it.  Don't worry it's short. Direct Link Isn't he precious??  Video was August 30th, only four days after finding him. On the morning of August 26 we heard a huge crash and went outside to find that a dead tree had finally fallen.  This tree had been dying for years, the limbs all dropped off, then the top fell out, but the trunk always held on.  Finally after years it came crashing down (on a perfectly calm day with no wind lol).  Jackal (my dog) was acting fascinated with something... When hubby went to investigate he found Jackal licking a baby squirrel!!!!!  He had fur, but his eyes weren't even open yet. The above pictures were taken on August 30th.  Jackal was protecting him from the cats who were closi...

I have been slacking on blogging!  I don't remember what order I read these in or what month, so I'm combining the last two months together.  I hope I didn't forget any...  The descriptions are going to be brief because I read some of these so long ago I don't even remember that much about them.  I also don't know if I have these in the correct order, but that doesn't really matter.  I need to do better about writing each book down when I finish them.  Also I'm back posting these because I have a lot of catching up to do and I don't know when I'll have time to sit down and do it again.... There are some really exciting posts coming up!!  Not just books anymore hehe.  Let's get to it. Amazon Link It's been a while so you may not remember, but I read book one in July.  I read the other two books at the beginning of August.  I really liked this trilogy.  It was different from the usual fantasy trilogy.  It had a lot of things in i...

In the truck on the way home!  We crossed several state lines to get this boy.  First a quick lesson for the less than goat savvy people.  Our does are Boer crosses.  Our new buck Crocket is a Myotonic Goat (Tennessee Fainting Goat, Tennessee Meat Goat (TM), etc, they have many names).  When you cross a Myotonic with a Boer you get the TexMaster (TM).  The Myotonic is well known for being a heavily muscled breed.  When breed to a Boer, you get a bigger framed, faster growing, heavily muscled goat.  Myotonics have a hereditary condition called myotonia congenita which causes the muscles to stiffen briefly when the animal is startled and can cause them to fall over, hence why they are called fainting goats.  They don't really faint though.  They are conscious the whole time and it is painless.  Well, I tried to keep it brief.  Just introducing you to the breed if you are unfamiliar. This is an example (not mine) of a TexMaster (T...