Merry Christmas!

Just thought this was too good not to share.

This is what the morning brought.........

In all I think I got about 4"
It was just in the 60's last weekend!
Wasn't it???

This season's first snowman!

2011 kid pen and hay stacking crew

I'm PUBLISHED!!....kinda...

My picture of the lake that I took a couple days ago
made it on the LIMA NEWS last night!!
WITH MY NAME!!!!

These are the other two pics I posted at the same time.





They were all taken on 10-11-11
@ Grand Lake St. Marys, St. Marys, OH

Morning Fog at the Golf Course - 10-4-11

The resident Bed Hog!!

Don't worry, I'm pretty sure he was comfy!!!

Quietly waking up.....

At 5:58 am this morning I went out to do chores and saw the moon sinking in between the clouds. I ran back in ther house to get my camera and they didn't turn out very good.

As I was coming back in the house to get ready for work, I see this:



I ran back in the house to get the camera. I think I do a lot better when I have enough light to take a picture without trying to change settings on the camera.

Sunset @ the Fish Hatchery on 8-13-11.

I love taking pictures, they don't always come out how I envision they are 'GOING' to, but every once in awhile they come out pretty neat!



This one I kinda cheated on. I used PhotoShop and combined a couple of pics together.
I was using my cell phone so I don't think the colors showed up very bright.

Four to feed...

I guess the parents think it's funny to do a fly-by first.



The fly-by apparently didn't work out so good as the little guys dinner flew away!

July 4th 'touring' pics

St. Marys, OH
Pics taken in the Fish Hatchery
along the East Bank
7-4-11

Was that me??!! MAN I sound good!!

Hopefully you will be able to click on this and will actually play
a little 15 sec video of the little man finding his voice.
Sorry about the rooster at the start.

A Jump Too High - continued....

Yes, she's still in a cast. A shorter one but still a cast...I guess you would call it a splint but it's pretty solid. She got an X-ray done on Saturday and the vet saw a line he didn't like so he wants her in the thing for one more week. She is doing great other than that. While at the vets office she was running wind sprint while we were waiting.

B11 - A Jump Too High

Switched the 12 new kids from the trailer into their own pen in the big barn this weekend. I was concerned when I found I had a few jumpers but didn't act on it. Yesterday morning I found that one of the kids was limping. It looked like she was putting weight on it so I I thought maybe she just twisted it when she jumped out. Later that night she was at an angle that I could see the leg better and I knew it was broke...off to the vet.

The vet and I tired many different splint pieces and finally came up with two splints that fit the leg pretty good. The splint pieces were covered with cotton placed together and wrapped with a couple rolls of tape.




She got to ride in the passenger seat there and back. She didn't move too much. She was pretty calm the whole time. She also got to stay in the house last night in a large dog crate. This morning she went back out to the barn and put in the pen all by herself. She has all the hay and grain she could possible eat. She is still on milk so she had to be bottle fed this morning. Hoping she stays put till I get home tonight!

A nice Spring day

Kid Count up to 15....5 girls 10 boys.....

Kids born last evening.....

one boy




One girl

Twins - 3-9-11

Twin Saanen kids born yesterday afternoon. Sorry no pics...my phone keeps running out of battery??? Anyway, one doe, one buck....I'll try to get some pic this weekend...

Total is now at 9 buck kids and 4 doe kids.

I'm thinking I wish the weekend was ago a week long...............ugh...

2011 Kidding UPDATE

The count is now -8 buck kids and 3 doe kids....
one single
three sets of twins
One set of quads

littlest one of the quads - His brother and sisters are 2xor more his size.



Pictures are hard to get, they move so fast....

St. Marys, Ohio Flooding.....

Nice Peaceful St. Marys, OH

And then - February 28, 2011 happened.................



















The water has receded and things are getting cleaned up.

Start of Kidding season @ Husker Haven

Born last night around 11:00 pm

One Buck
One Doe (standing)

The Dam: Jessica
Sire is one of the AI bucks kids from last year out of D. Dominique

GOOD NEWS!!

A pic of the perfectly placed anchors for one of my rotator cuffs. Therapy HAD been going great then I was having a lot of pain and my range of motion was getting worse, so I had an MRI this past Saturday to make sure it was still attached. Turns out, THANKFULLY, it is. The shoulder is just very inflamed. I got a shot in the top of my shoulder this morning to reduce the swelling so that PT can continue. Thank goodness, I would not have been able to get it operated on again for some time if it had come to that. I got KIDS on the way!!! : )

I just thought it was a cool picture!!

Just thought this was HILARIOUS!!!