TOUCHING BASE

Thought I would touch base and let you all know what has been going on. It is planting time at our house right now. So the guys are busy in the fields. Until that is done everything else is on the back burner. Tuesday I went and got 4 new calves from a local farmer to add to the herd. The moms and baby's are out on pasture it is so fun watching the babies play. I love this time of year seeing everything bring new life. Yesterday was a whirlwind of a day started out at 4:00 a.m. as usual. I will give you a little diary of what went on yesterday. Started out with doing chores then in to do three loads of laundry and get it hung on the line to dry. Then get the spot ready where we are going to put the chicks I will be picking up later. Off to town with hubby to take cows to the auction and go pick up a check. Home for about an hour then to the auction to watch our cows sell and pick up our check. Then we head to farm bureau to get sweet corn seed, lettuce and pumpkin seed. Yes it is time to start planting the garden also. My husband always plants our sweet corn with the corn planter which is so nice. On to the farm store to get lights feed and a water er for chicks. To the mans house where I'm picking up a hundred chicks. Get them all caught head home put them up. On to chores mind you the guys are in the field so it was up to me and the daughter to get all the chores done. She is so sweet she did all the milking and my side of the chores well I did the guys chores. Got all done with that in the house to have supper which Dad fixed for us sure glad I did not have that to do to. Little computer time then go pick up hubby from field on to the house for the night. Bed finally about 10:00. So hoping today will slow down a little. Well that is what has been going on around here. Hope you are all doing good. Leave me a comment and let me know what has been going on around your home. Have a great day. God bless Rebekah

NEW BABY CALVES

So sorry I have not been posting but I have just been so busy. Here is a few pictures of our two new heifer calves that were born yesterday. We have three heifers now. One bull came premature lost him. Then we had a heifer try and calve it was a bull he was humongous she could not have him so we lost that one. We still have seven left to calve. The kids are hoping at least for a couple bulls for their 4-H calves. We also have baby pigs but not been able to get pictures yet. We got a new stock trailer and hay mower which we really needed. I should rephrase that they are not new but new to us. Around the farm there has just been alot of cleaning up, hauling manure and now getting ready to put crops in. I don't know if I'm ready for summer but here it comes ready or not. Well I think for now you are up to date. Have a great night and God bless. Rebekah

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THANK YOU

Thank you Catherine your so sweet and such a blessing. Scroll down to the bottom to read my post. Computer messed up and I do not feel like redoing. Thanks

A big thank you to my blog friend. I was having a very stressful day today. When I arrived home there was a package on the table. I opened it there was this beautiful rooster towel and five bars of wonderful smelling soap. This just made my day so much better. So neat how the Lord uses people to lift others up when they are down. So this is a good example for us all when the Lord lays it on our heart to do something for someone better do it. We don't know how much it will bless them. Have a great night. Rebekah

NEW BABIES

A little up date on what has been going on around the farm. Yesterday we had another momma calve. She had it all by herself ya! The only problem now is she would not take the baby. So off to catch the mom so we could put her and the baby together. We tube fed the baby twice to get her going. Today they are together and the baby is sucking. Hopefully we can turn her and the other mom out in the pasture tomorrow. So ready to see cows out there grazing. The other mom and her calf are doing great. We also have six new baby pigs. They are doing great. I went and picked up a baby pig for payment from some friends for using our boar. Got some cows moved around yesterday. It was long overdue. They went through the fench twice before they realized da we have to stay in here. Today we went on our monthly visit to the nursing home. Then took the kids to a hands on museum. So much fun for them. Great place to learn, imagine and play. Well guess that keeps you up to date on the happenings of the farm. Have a good night. Rebekah The proud momma.

Here are the new baby goats. One boy and one girl. The girl stays mom is a real good milker.

Here is our momma who lost her baby. She how good she is with the baby we gave her. I love this cow she is so sweet.

Here is our sweet new baby. Believe me her mom is not sweet. She would kill us if she could. You would not know by her color but momma is all red with black tint.

LONG DAY ON THE FARM

Well to start off I went out to do chores this morning and found two new babies. I thought this mom goat was never going to kid. Then on to my husbands barn to get grain for night chores. I figured well I was over there I would walk back the lane and check on the brood cows. Most of them are getting ready to calf. So I seen one acting kinda funny and my husband went to check. Yep she tried to calf while we were in bed but could not. So we had to pull the calf he was already gone. Such a bummer especially because she showed no signs of being ready to calve. Unfortunately that is how farming goes it is not always this little fun fantasy world like some people want to make it look like. Farming is fun but also alot of hard work and disappointments. Anyways we had a little calf we just bought so we gave him to her and she took right to him. She loves him and has a baby after all her trauma. We had friends over for lunch and fellowship. Such a good time of relaxing and just enjoying friends. We did night chores and moved some cows around. Went back in the field to check cows tonight. Nobody looks like they are ready and I hope nobody goes while we are in bed. My husband and son have been working on the cleanup of the farm. Going good but a long ways to go. So there is my day in a nutshell. I'm tired and ready for bed. Have a good night. Rebekah

RE-MADE SOAP

Here is what me and my daughter did yesterday. We took some soap I made years ago and remade it. The balls we did are lavender scent rolled in lavender flowers smells so heavenly. The cupcake looking ones are pumpkin spice coffee. It was so fun and easy. I have even done this with the little pieces of soap you have leftover. Just save them till you have quite a few then grate them up. All you have to do for the molded ones is grate a pound of soap put in your pan add enough liquid to help it melt. Do this on high stir always or it will burn if not melting you need more liquid. It is o.k. if you have a few chunks. Once it is melted add scent if you want and put in molds. Put in the freezer for about an hour then pop out of mold. For liquid you can use herbal tea, coffee or just water.For the balls you grate a pond of soap , put in scent if you want then add enough liquid just so it sticks together. Shape into balls pack and roll as tight as you can. Do not add any other ingredient because it tends to make the balls crumble when dry. You can roll them in some pretty flowers crushed up if you like. Let both soaps which ever you do cure for 2 weeks. Go ahead and try so fun an fun to do with the kids. Have a great day. Rebekah