Happy Birthday our Sweet Girl!!!

                     

 Well,  I never ever in my life thought I would say that we own a horse. And I stand here today a proud owner of a ....pony not quite a horse. Sunny the wonder pony..   We surprised our Daughter for the 11th birthday, by giving her Sunny. Our Kind friend Julie, was the owner of Sunny and wanted Anna to have her.   Our sweet girl was very surprised.   

 She couldn't stop smiling.

As I sit here today I just want you to know that we are so proud of you and we are so happy that we can give you this special gift.

We love you so much. 

Julie and Allison: Thank you for taking part in  her surprise. Your such good friends. !

This week on the Farm.

 Heating our home as been an eye opening experience in the pocket book. We decided to install a wood stove.  Which in itself has been another eye opening experience. We have to remove a light, install a ceiling fan,  install a hearth and then get the stove installed.  Here is step one. We had the slate imbedded in the wood floor.  I love it!!!

Laying out the slate



Drawing out the design on the floor



 You have to have 16'' in front the of wood stove for sparkes. That is the longest part of the slate.



 Did I mention that we love it!

                       The other exciting thing that happened this week is we got our meat chickens. 



Mia loves the chickens. She so wants them to jump out so she can heard them. We had to put a grid over the top. She was reaching in and gently pulling them out and letting them go so she could chase them around the house.  Very funny to watch but I hate chicken poop.

 We will be harvesting the turkeys this weekend. These guys are getting to big to walk. Next year we will go with a heritage breed.