Here are images of Alice‘s sheep.
Elizabeth‘s photos are below, posted in comment #31.
Also, see kt the gr8‘s artwork at comment #23.
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sweeto! i wish we could see the cows though! oh well they will come later!
Are those sheep? they look like goats to me. i’ve seen goats that looked like sheep before, like that one in the petting zoo when I was 4 that bit a whole in my shirt, but i’ve never seen a sheep that looked like a goat. very scary. are goats and sheep the same things and just trying to confuse us?
2- No. These are Black Welsh Mountain Sheep, which have horns. They are a rather rare breed, I think.
Unfortunately, I seem to have neglected to send one of the ones I meant to send. Oh well.
We had a lot of sheep back then! Wow, I forgot.
They’re awesome! Our neighbors have chickens, and they had to get special permission to have them…because we live in the city.
haha…barnyard animals…
What are we supposed to say on this thread other than “nice pictures”?
Awesome alliteration!
Seemingly social sheep!!!
Cool Alice!
I want to see Elizabeth’s cows!
oh, I’ve gotta send my pictures, I’ll try to do that soon
nice sheep, Alice, though I gotta say the face of the one in the second picture is kinda ugly, kinda like a guinea hen, but the other faces don’t look so bad, so… I don’t know. Is that your hand in the picture? If so, we all know what your hand looks like! you know, it looks kinda like my hand…Is that your dog in the first picture? (s)he’s cute.
ok, I got the email done and it wouldn’t send, it said try later, so that’s what i’ll do… If that doesn’t work, maybe I’ll have to send them one at a time…
which gapa gets these pics? or does every gapa get them?
Wow! Pretty sheep. Black Welsh Mountain. Very James Herriot.
I hate to ask, but are their eyes really blue?
Very cool, Alice! I always pictured your sheep as white. Do you raise them for wool or anything, or just for fun?
Aw! How cute!!! I love sheep…yesterday, I was driving through the country on my way back from the first game in a soccer tournament (which we just won, by the way), and we saw these sheep, and I was like, “Oh, Dad, can we go ask the owner if I can pet the sheep?”, and he’s like, “No, the owner would come out with a shotgun to get us “city folk” off his property…or he’d look us over for a second and say, ‘Yeah, for ten bucks.’…no.” It was pretty funny, especially coming from my dad.
Wow. Awesome! It looks like you live in a nice place.
Ok, is it my computer or does the sheep staring at the camera in the second picture have bright blue eyes? It’s a little creepy.
15-Dude, that’s freakyyy…:shock:
15-I think the one closest to the camera has something blue near its eyes, the other one is farther away and appears to have blue eyes, but it’s probably the same blue thing. A tag or something maybe?
Thanks, all!
9- No, it’s not my hand. I don’t think . . . What dog? There is a rooster in the background of the first one, is that what you were thinking was a dog? He does look a bit like my dog, though.
12- For fun. And meat.
No, their eyes aren’t bright blue. It’s just the light. Their eyes are brown.
19- In the background one of the smaller sheep/lambs with a shorter coat slightly resembles a dog, maybe? In the background, see?
Otherwise, very nice.
Sheep are cool.
In 14, I was referring to Alice.
16 – Yea……….
Elizabeth, we got your pictures but they’re very small and hard to see. Can you send bigger ones? Something about twice the size would probably work. If you send something bigger than that to be on the safe side, I can always make necessary adjustments.
Also, if you’re in the photo we need an email from your parents saying it’s OK. Thanks.
In the meantime, here’s a picture from kt the gr8 inspired by the pastoral theme.
umm. i see. sheep. there they are. now, because ive been hanging out with my vegetarian frienda ll day, LETS EAT THEM!!! BWAHAHAHA!!!!
9- That’s a sheep!
Nice picture kt! What program did you use? Do you actually have animals?
Cool! Your’e so lucky to live on a farm. That must be wondeful!
Your sheep are beauteous creatures.
I love farm animals. :C
Suburban and proud! Well, sort of. Anyways, cute sheep! I love them!
Pretty sheep! Now I want sheep… I don’t think they’d fit, though, as I live in a city…
Here are some pictures from Elizabeth.
Awwww…
31- Cool! Chickies! And cows, and sheep, and pigs! Wow . . .
I have to go now, and deal with our sheep who won’t eat the new hay because it’s not bright green.
Meh. I give them the benefit of the doubt. It is their routine to go out about now. Maybe they’re not really spoiled at all.
Oh, no, never.
26- City slicker! You can’t comprehend someone having animals? Hah!
oh good, the little pictures did work. I couldn’t find any pictures of my “black and whites” on my computer, so i’ll get some off the camera…eventually… I’m going out to Missouri for a national contest on grasslands and grazing (wish me luck!)tues-thurs, so maybe when I get back…
so, while I have time:
1st picture, from Left:Pi, Hamballs (yes, inappropriate, I hate that pig…), Barbara, Pitbull, Jenny, Seven-head
2nd picture: our pigs 2 years ago, the closest one was Ham, the darker one further back was Bacon, and I don’t remember the others
3rd picture:our chicks that we hatched in the incubator, they are so cute the first few weeks! a cross between Aracana and Buff Orpington
4th picture: My calf Clover at about 2(ish) months old, with my hand and arm…
5th picture: those are our old sheep that I mentioned a few times on the Homeschooler’s thread, that’s a prety old picture, probably taken late summer maybe 5 years ago, you can see the lambs, but they aren’t that awful small anymore
(23) Isn’t that Magical Trevor’s cow?
36- I love Magical Trevor! That’s my nickname at boy scouts! Oops. Personal info.
35- Good luck, Elizabeth!
cool! gotta love animals. my family is taking care of some baby bunnies taht our friends found-get this-in the mouth of their dogs! they saved them and so we are taking care of them or the week one has a broken leg
You have the coolest life. I’m reading a book called “a day no pigs would die.” and they live on a farm. Gawd I hate this book.I’m reading it for school. Off to that thread!
i despise magical trevor. well, i suppose i shouldnt. but its my brother’s fault. looka t him now… disapearing the cow… where is the cow… hidden right now. taking a bow its magical trevor everyone has seen that the trick is clever. my brother has sung that song soo many times. it is drilled into my head witha sledgehammer.
37-and boy scouts gawd. sorry. just…boy scouts seem horribly nationalistic.
chutney is much better.ooh sorry is this the line for fighting? no, this is the line for CHUTNEY!!! thi is the song is the song is the song about chutney chutney chutney chutney chuteneyy chutney is a tasty sauce you have with your something sonething or with you something once chutney!! chutney!!!! once you know the words you can sing along with me!!!!
of the weebl’s stuff that is. or perhaps. badger badgers badgers badgers… a musha mushroom mushroom! aaa snake aa snake ahoo itsa snakkkee! etc.
41- Funny that you mention the nation thing, because most of our troop is obsessed with communism. Almost no one is commited. Oh, and there are three more magical trevors on Weebls. But OTM and Mango! are good too.
Woah! All those times you guys were talking about sheep, I thought you were joking!
Apologies for my ignorance.
SHEEP.
31-YEAH! PIGGIES! w00t! /\VV50|\/|3!
I LOVE PIGGIES!!! I wish i lived on a farm really far away from the city, its so peaceful and beautiful. The city is too noisy and polluted and…i dont know. I am just a HUGE nature and animal lover i guess. You are so lucky Alice and Elizebeth!!! *sigh*
Nice sheep, Alice’s and Elizabeth’s both! Have we met? I’ve been off the blog for so long, I’m not sure. Pleased to meet you both if we haven’t spoken before. It looks like you live in nice places. I live in semi-rural Kentucky, so I know several farming families, but none of their sheep are that clean or friendly-looking.
I’ve spent most of my life in the country, but now my family is moving back to the city. I’m excited, but I am going to miss the birds, the woods, and the general peace and quiet of nature. I guess it won’t be like that for long, though – the developers are closing in! Pretty soon Kentucky is going to be one big suburb.
46- No, I have never met you. Hi! I came on in February.
Very nice!
My friend has chickens and we both have horses… Though I have no pics of the chickens sadly. *sigh*
So I’ll send chicken pics as soon as I can get some from Lisanne. And send the horse pics now.
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one of my bunnies died. boo-hoo. i knew he was gonna die anyway. but it was sad. the other one is okay!
46- yeah, I think we’ve met, I’ve been on since last August.
haha, my puppy has to go to the vet now…he oughta love it… (not) oh well. I’m not looking foreward to it, he goes hyper so easily, and I know he will in the vet’s office. at least he’s not going for his big opperation… that comes later, i hope it’ll make him calm down a little
48- I rode a horse the other day. It was fun, and the horse was nice.
49- Aww.
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yeah, my horse is… *thinks* psychotic? insane? Something like that.
He’s got a herniated disc though, so we can’t ride him. Before, though, he was like glass when he loped.
Everyone always says how much my horse reminds them of me. Except of course, he is short and fat and I am tall and skinny.
Anyway, Brother (or Lilbro, or whatever) babysits anybody who rides him except (naturally) me. Also, he is the roughest horse I have ever ridden… Even Lisanne, who started riding at the age of three or so, claims she’s never ridden a rougher trot or lope. *groan* Its dang near impossible to ride him bareback at anything more than a walk. If you trot, you get jarred off either to the side or back, and at a lope… Well. If the funky rhythm doesn’t throw you, the random flying lead changes will.
But, you have to love him. He’s very pretty, and sweet.
Then there’s Lisanne’s horses – Pecos, Cody, and Reb. Also the ponies, Jeb and Jake.
Jeb and Jake are very, very fat ponies who founder at least once a month during the summer. They’re half brothers and Lisanne’s had them since forever.
Pecos is also a very hard horse to ride. He’s hyper and very sensitive, so if you just barely touch him, he’s gone.
Cody’s our clumsy dog horse – licks your hand, plays fetch with the food dish, actually comes when you call him… that sort of thing.
Reb’s great grandfather (or something like that) was a racehorse, and Reb really takes after him. Very skinny, very fast. Good jumper, too. Lisanne’s show horse.
Y’know, it’s almost sad, how much better eggs taste when the chickens who lay ’em aren’t pumped full of antibiotics and God only knows what else.
Me likes having friends with chickens.
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It is sad.
The horse that I rode and will ride in the future, in a sense, “my” horse, is named TJ. He’s very sweet and calm.
Hey! Now I know what Elizabeth’s skin color is! Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh…..
TNÖ sent us some pictures to add to our growing collection of animals.
Very nice horses, TNO!
Oh yea. Very nice horses!
55: Beautious!
Let’s see… The one on top is Brother, my horse.
Below that, the horse on the left is Pecos… having his… nose scratched…
And on the right is Jeb, the pony.
Below Pecos and Jake, Cody’s on the left, Reb is upper right, and Jake is lower right.
Don’t you just love the six inch roll of fat on top of Jeb’s neck? Jake’s got one too but you can’t see it in the picture. lol.
Also the gleam in Cody’s eye, like, I’m-gonna-eat-the-camera sort of thing.
56,57,58- thankyou. I think so to.
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Nice horses, I’ve never been really “in to” horses, I prefer to ride my ox, but they are very pretty. and that pony is awful fat, that can’t be real healthy…
60- You ride your OX!?!
Cool. I’m not exactly into horses either, but riding was fun and I hope to do it again.
I like riding horses. Poor me doesn’t live on a farm though, so I don’t get to often.
Rideing an ox? Sweetness. That sounds fun.
YOU ALL ARE SOOOOOOOO LUCKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish I had one pet, any pet. I had a dog for three days but my mom was allergic to it.
63- Aww. You don’t get any pets? That’s sad.
60- are you kidding? It’s actually amazing the evil lil ponies are even still alive at this point (aproaching fifteen years). As I said, they founder lots during the summer- for those of you who don’t know, that’s when the fat buildup in the legs is so great that the horse/pony is rendered imoble. nasty condition.
You seriously ride your ox? sweet…
63- no pets? sooooooo sorry!
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64- I know! tis such a tragedy! But hey, atleast I live in a democratic nation and have all of my limbs. still.
ok…since the pie war thread disapeared, I couldn’t find a thread to put my idea for a new thread, although this thread may not be totally appropriate, but I don’t know what is! Ahem…my idea was to have an rpg sort of thread, based on the archeological expedition for the scribblemaya. On the thread everyone would not be in character, but under their MB name. Each person who joins would be another archeologist on the expedition. It wouldn’t necessarly be an action filled thread, just sort of us MBers creating and putting together our ideas on the ancient civilization. What does everyone think?
67- It sounds cool. Kind of like one of the Musiverse threads. I would definitely join.
68-good, that’s one, anyone else?
Shouldn’t this be moved elsewhere? No one except the few visitors of this thread is going to see it. How about the random thread?
Scribblemaya expedition, huh? Count me in. I specialize in translating the codices and pictographs of the Scribblemaya.
I dont know much about it, but it might work. I think C++ Darkmage and agagabagabag want to join to but Im not sure.
And alice, wouldn’t that be breaking the rules? going off topic and all?
Let’s petition for a Scribblemaya thread. GAPAs?
There are three of us who want it! Please, GAPAs, OEADs, MAPs, Rs and P?
I specialize in Scribblemaya legends and superstitions.
52 – Agreed. It is handy to know neighbors with non-steroid-filled chickens!
Nice horses! I prefer admiring them from a distance to riding them.
60 – You can ride an ox? That’s a nifty skill! The strangest thing I’ve seen anyone ride around here is an alpaca. I felt bad for it, though – it seemed kind of small for that sort of thing.
I loved having chickens, but unfortunately the coyotes got them all, except for about five or six wild ones, that nonetheless occasionally lay eggs in the barn.
77- we have some chickens that lay their eggs randomly everywhere in the barn…it’s actually kind of a pain, but anyway, sometimes they start brooding, trying to hatch the eggs, the only problem is that the eggs aren’t fertile so they won’t ever hatch so the chickens sit there for a few weeks then give up then try again…dumb birds!
MAJOR NEWS:
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I AM A GRANDMOTHER OF 2 NOW. MY HEIFERS (DAUGHTERS, AFTER THE NON-OFFICIAL ADDOPTION) ARE ALL VERY PREGNANT AND 2 HAVE CALVED, ONE BOY AND I DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE OTHER. I AM VERY PROUD OF MY EXPANDING FAMILY.
haha, but really, baby cows are soooooo cool! I’m gonna go see them today
78- congrats.
79 – Ditto!
I went to a graduation party in Indiana the other day. The house was surrounded by 200 acres of woods. What an amazing setting! But at the same time, living in the country has its problems. Maybe it’s just a Kentucky thing, but here I am surrounded by complete “rednecks” with no interest in education and/or manners.
80- Don’t worry, it’s not just Kentucky. There are some nice people here, but most (not all, but most) moved here from somewhere else.
80- there are some rednecks here, but not a whole lot of “real” ones. It’s actually considered a compliment to be called a redneck, or just a joke. But we live in a rather “touristy” town so the real rednecks are tucked down around the outlet and other places where people don’t go much. It is a problem in a small town, though, not so many people are intersted in both farms and work and stuff AND furthering their education and learning and going places and doing things and all. I have to go to national competitions to find peole that are as interested in the same stuff as me. for example: the type of pasture and how many cows could graze there for how long and how it would change under different management practices. and, what type of grass that is and what that weed is and when to cut that hay…ya, that stuff…Hey, it’s important!
and I saw them today, my “kids” that is. all my heifers are doing fine, the second calf is a girl, and they said the boy was “shipped” so it’s too bad…he would have had good genetics (and that’s another important topic that I could discuss at length…genetics and judging) hey, guess what happens to bull calves that are “shipped” and no one wants to bother raising them? they get turned into canned chicken soup…yeah… … … oh well
so, I’l try to get the time to get some pictures of my holstein cows, school gets out on tuesday, then exams, then I am completely free with lotsa time to do stuff
(82) How do you turn a calf into chicken soup?
82- Canned chicken soup? What does “shipped” mean, anyways?
83- i don’t know… but how can you tell that it’s really chicken in the chicken soup?
84- ummm… shipped off to be bought by someone, most likely by someone that will butcher him… I know it’s sad but it happens. Something about the guys, dairy farmers don’t seem to like them.
85- Oh horrors. No, I mean it.
BAAAAAAAAAA. MOOOOOOOOOOOOO. OINKOINKOINK. NEIGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cluck. Cluck. Cluck.
AAugh!!!! I keep forgetting to change my name back to CELLOGIRL 26, instead of 26.
87- That’s random.
88- Yeah, I have that problem too.
lets see, what’s the “farm news” today? We have just started cutting hay…I hate doing hay. People talk about the sweet smell of hay…but it is really dusty and the chaf blows around everywhere so I end up breathing it and eating it and all… it’s gross…. and my hands hurt from where they are getting calloused and all my muscles hurt. (I know, complain, complain, complain)
I might be going to an auction on Saturday to get more cows!!!!!!!!
ummm, I think that’s abut it, oh, and I’m trying to make a hammock out of old bale twine… I’m just trying to figure it out as i go, it’s a little confusing, and I can’t figure out where to hang it.
90- Baling twine, duct tape, and five gallon buckets. The essentials of life.
I know what you mean about hay, even though we don’t grow it ourselves. I have cleaned the loose hay from the barn floor enough times. Of course that’s mixed with dust, which makes it worse, but still.
90: The number of things one can make with bailing twine! Lisanne and I have made dream catchers, lead ropes, friendship bracelets, ect, ect. Never thought of hammocks before though. LOL.
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92- yeah, my cousins (who are all a lot older than me) used to all get together and make a huge hammock to fit them all. They would all sit around braiding and talking and all (it looked like a lot of fun…they never let me help…
*sniffle* I was like, 5, but still… oh well.)
I also made a huge rope and my dad tied it to the very top of the barn so I can swing around on it… that’s pretty fun
What else do I do… they work well for leashes on dogs… and cheap belts if your pants are too loose, and string to tie sleeping bags shut with, and clothes lines for when i’m at camp, and stuff to make collars that are just the right size for my calves when they outgrow the others… ya, baletwine is cool stuff, just painful when you are grabbing in when it is tied onto a haybale
93- LOL.
I have baling twine in my pocket, as a matter of fact. Along with a pair of wristwarmers and lots and lots of hay.
95- I have hay in my pocket too!!!!! what a cooincidence…must be something about haying season on farms
we picked 15 quarts of strawberries in the morning aand lotsa peas in the afternoon…then i found that the cherries are gonna be ripe VERY soon…it’s that time of year again!!!!!!!!!
We don’t have a farm, (us poor city dwellers), but we do have cherry, peach, pear, and apple trees. Mulberries, raspberries, strawberries, tomatoes, lettuce, peppers, broccoli, and swiss chard. We picked a bunch of Strawberries today, too! And our cherries are ripening…THF and I climbed the tree today to pick the ones at the very top, because the ones up there ripen really fast! I do not, however, have hay in my pocket
96- Oh wow. We don’t even have raspberries yet, and all day it has been rainy and grey. But that’s actually a good thing, because if it doesn’t rain for most of the summer, we run out of water.
96 – Our cherries are just finishing up their season. We dried some today.
All you lucky east-coasters with your fast-ripening fruit. Alright, I know it’s not the fruit itself, it’s the climate. Lucky ducks.
Hang on a sec. E2MB isn’t an east-coaster! Maybe it’s just that cherries ripen early. I had some yesterday, come to think of it, so they must be in season even over here. I wonder if my uncle has some, or if the squirrels all got them before they were ripe. *ponders the probability of her uncle having cherries*
In Wales, there are farms that keep both black Wesh mountains and more conventional whitish sheep. They keep the wool separate initially, then blend it into various shades of grey, from almost black to almost white. Then they weave check and herringbone patterns with it, and turn it into natty Welsh wool jackets, skirts, cushions, etc. The colours are all natural – no dyes.
i personaly like cows best.
oh thank you for all the comments on my pretty picture!
Of course, we have, like, a two month growing season, so fresh fruit is a bit of a rarity.
On the other hand, there’s no shortage of beef!
102- cool.
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97- where do you live to have all that fruit if you live in a city? I like having lotsa fruit, my pparents like to try new stuff all the time and we have a huge orchard so it all works out, it’s fun
98- when do your raspberries ripen compared to other fruits? ours usually come close to last, but I know we have later varieties. You have rain? lucky! we have a severe drought, if we don’t have rain VERY soon, all our cabbage (30 acres) will die…ya, not cool.
99- WHERE DO YOU LIVE TO HAVE CHERRIES ALMOST DONE????????? that is sooo not fair, I’ve been wanting cherries for months and they are only just starting to get sorta ripe… we dried cherries last year, they are good… we dried strawberries too and they got really hard and sour
101- haha, that reminds me, last night at midnight my mom heard this really loud screaming in our orchard so she ran over there, thinking it was something going for our chickens, but it was really 3 huge (picture the size of a puppy 35 pounds or so, like mine) racoons in one of our cherry trees, 2 were fighting and they had fallen, that made the noise. they ate a lot of the cherries, so I hope there are still some for us, it’s usually the birds that get them, but raccoons eat lots more than birds
103- YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hehe, i agree, completely, we are the smart ones, we know best (no offence to those that, ummm, think differently…differently than the right way thaat is!!!!!!!!!!)
102- ahhhhhhh…. I can’t even think about wool sweaters right now, it is soooo hot here, and we had to unload and stack hay today, i was literally dripping sweat, I hate doing hay! then again, just sitting here typing I’m sweating, it is really hot around here!
104- i would hate that, our growing season extends from late april (rhubarb and asparagus) to late november ( certain types of strawberries) and everytime inbetween we have:
cherries
peaches
pears
kiwi (i’m not kidding, it’s a special kind that grows even here in upstste NY
papaw (disgusting, no matter what anyone tells you about tasting like bananna custard, it’s more like stiff(like cardboard) over sweet marshmallow, plus chlorophyl)
plums
apricots
apples
we kinda tried grapes…
raspberries
wild blackraspberries (but I know where they grow, where the first ones are and where the biggest, sweetest, everything bout them, they are so good!)
melons
that’s all i can think of right now… plus all the vegetables, of course… man, my brother and I am busy picking and cutting up fruit and all all summer!
105- Our raspberries ripen before everything else, I think. The apples are late, the blackberries extend over august and september, (at least) and the plums are a little before the apples.
98 – our raspberries are at the prime of their season right now. *shrugs* I don’t know why everything ripens quickly in Northern California. Our plums and zuchinnis are just about ready too.
Our pear tree has so many pears it’s leaning over and is about to snap! And the pears are barely three inches long!
107- Maybe because Northern California is hot. Hot and dry, unless you’re on the coast in which case it’s foggy and cool.
107- you might want to do a little trimming on those pears, our peach trees were like that last year…then the DID snap… so sad
108- yeah I was thinking that too
hey, I just noticed how long my last post was…wow
so i’ll try to keep this one short…not much happened today, my little brother and I went joyriding in the gator, they cherries are more or less ripe, i picked more strawberries this morning and my little brother got me all wet with the hose, then we cut up cherries for a couple hours
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get the idea, yeah hot! I’m sweating just sitting here at my computer, and it’s the coolest part of the day (isn’t it?) we don’t have AC, either… ooohhhh I hate hot weather!
109- Wow, that hot? The sun only just came out now for me.
110- you are soooo lucky but we are getting a little rain now. It’s supposed to give us a lot of rain… it hasn’t yet but it’d better (I mean, “Please Please Please……… rain gods, give rain!”)
*does rain dance*
*does rain dance*
*does rain dance again*
*hopes everyone else is doing a rain dance*
But today it’s sunny! It might rain tomorrow.
*does rain dance and projects it to New York (state.)*
12- HAHA, guess what… IT RAINED!!!!!!! we got 7 tenths, which is pretty good. yes!!!!!
otherwise, I sold my dad’s bull today… my barn is getting kinda empty… I need to get more soon!
113- It worked!
yep…and it rained again today, our cabbage is happy and so is my pasture!
we have 6 kittens on our porch, one of the mother cats just brought them to live there, so they are underfoot everywhere you step…oh well, they are so cute! 4 black ones… maybe it’s bad luck. I can’t tell them apart so I need to find names that fit for male/female and can be for all of them, for example we had aa litter once that was all gray and I named them the Attilas, they all have the same name (named after Atilla the Hun, but Atilla sounds sorta like a girl’s name too) I was thinking King Louis the 13-16th or something like that, but Louis is a boy’s name, so i don’t know…
hey, they was a vey long and rambling post for what I had to say…
115- But Louis is such a nice name. You could call them Lou, which could work for either a girl or a boy.
ya… well i think I’ll probably do that, except that mom named one King Mewey instead of Kind Louis (they rhyme…just one letter differene…haha, funny (stupid) pun)
My dog caught a woodchuck today… he is so funny… and viscious then he got shocked by the fence, he gets so freaed out by electricity, it’s kinda funny but i feel sorry for him because he doesn’t understand about the fences yet
Rain today. Lots of it. It was pouring buckets while I was out with the sheep, but it’s not so wet now I’m inside. Oh lovely.
lucky, we need rain.
mom said to go out and pick cherries after lunch, so we did, we started on the little tree because it has the sweetest cherries, and it’s still not done but we picked more than a 5 gallon pail and mom figued that would be enough to can today… i love the surplus of foon around here. according to my aunt, fresh cherries in some places are worth about 6 dollars a pound…
I just weighed the bucket, it weighed 32.5 pounds, and 32.5 times 6 dollars a pound is 195 dollars…that’s pretty good. you know, whatever fruit costs in the store is WAAAAAAAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYy more that it’s worth, around here that might be worth 10 dollars since we picked our own, and most people just say come and pick any time… ohhh, poor city folks!
(119) I am intensely envious. Cherries are near the top of the list of my favorite things, and indeed they are frequently $6.99 a pound or even more around here, in spite of there being pick-your-own places not too far away. The ones in the store aren’t that flavorful, either.
Oh, well, I shall be able to gorge myself on figs when the time comes. Although I feared the late frost had damaged the bush, it has come back bigger and more heavy laden than ever.
Yeah, exactly. We have an abundance of blackberries, and last summer a friend of my dad’s from the city came over, with his wife and her friend. They said that we had hundreds of dollars of blackberries on the bushes. We never pick enough of them, either, and this winter we’ve been eating a lot of them and last summer we hardly canned ANY, so we’ve been working our way through the berries we canned like 2 or 3 years ago. This summer, we’ll be blackberry picking.
120- FIGS! The fresh ones are sooooooo good. I think there may have been some at the party t’other night, but if there were I missed them.
I like cherries an awful lot, but we don’t eat them much because they’re expensive.
yeah, i’ve seen cherries in the store… it’s so sad that people can’t eat all they want, though it’s probably for the better, gorging on cherries can have… (how to say this nicely?) bad effects on the digestive system, especially the gastro-intestinal part (farts and diahrea) yeah, i have that problem almost all summer because i eat so much of all the fruit that is available.
I would invite all to come pick, we never get all the cherries, all those 30 pounds that we had yesterday didn’t even make a “dent” in our smallest tree, if you can believe that. well, my brother is inviting his old chemistry teacher (she’ll be mine next year… maybe i can get a few good grades… hehe *brown nose*) to come if she wants and my mom has lotsa other friends coming, this year is “The year of the Cherries” (if I were chinese)
120-we should grow figs, we don’t and we try just about everything else, and if you like cherries, you should get a sapling from a nursery aand plant it in your yard (if you have a big enough yard) they don’t grow to be too big and litle young ones give sooooooo much fruit, you could start making money off just a little tree
121- are those blackberries or blackraspberries? we have blackraspberries growing wild everywhere but we can’t get blackberries growing to save our lives (well maybe we’d try harder if our lives were really at stake, but you know what i mean)
ok lastly, as I know this post is already really long,
Alice, do you have ticks where you live? we don’t and after my trip down to Missouri where ticks are everywhere I was wondering what people do with livestock that are out in the tall grass just harvesting ticks… it can’ be good for them
123- You can’t grow BLACKBERRIES???? We don’t even have to try to grow them, they just do. I ♥ black cap raspberries, but I haven’t had any since I was really little.
Our raspberries are beginning to ripen. Now if the cedar waxwings and the chickens don’t eat them all, we will have a hearty crop.
I should get a cherry tree sometime…
Oh, ticks. Well, I think we have ticks, but the sheep appear to be okay… We don’t have that many ticks, though we used to when we lived in California.
Once we had a sheep that got lice and died.
He wasn’t a very strong sheep, and by the time we realized he had lice it was to late to do anything.
that’s sad, about the lice, and ticks. Maybe animals have tougher skin so the ticks can’t bite so much or something… I don’t know, it’s just such a big thing to kep the ticks off your body down south (everyone uses tick spray and all), because lyme disease is very serious (lethal, even)… I wouldn’t think a herd of cows with lyme disease could be profitable…
otherwise
SO MANY CHERRIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! another probably 25 pounds today, and whatever our Mennonite neighbors picked. They cane over with a bunch of little boys, but I think most of them ate as much as they picked, aside from the cherries that they fed to my dog. (my dog is so dumb, he eats the things! and strawberries and peas too, he eats anything)
55- They’re gorgeous.
I have a dog?
We need a thread for non big animals. Like cats and housepets.
I’m getting more cows soon!!! 2 calves and 2 yearlings, all holstein. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
now that we’re filling the barn up with hay I can swing on our big rope that hangs from the very top of the barn, ’tis much fun!
128- A rope swing! Lucky!
My dad bought cherries! Hurrah! Yum. We need to start harvesting the raspberries soon. The chickens, dog, and cedar waxwings have probably managed to bring the number of berries down by half. Or maybe not that extreme, but surely close.
Our blackraspberries are coming soon, they are usually later than this, I thought, maybe not…
our cherries are just about gone, but our neighbor still has some, he might share. my mom makes this really good sour cherry jam that is SOOOOOO good
your dog eats raspberries? it seems like the prickers would hurt him, though my dog has taken to chewing on rosebushes (what a dumb dog…) our raspberries are later, like august.
and yeah, the rope swing is cool, there is so much you can make out of baletwine! it’s almost as good as duct tape, only cheaper. I’ve always wanted a hammock, but they are so expensive, mom never got one, so I decided I’d have to take the mater into my own hands… and I’m waaaay too thrifty to spend much on a hammock, so I’m making my own out of bale twine, it works pretty well
130- Raspberries hardly have any prickers. But he eat blackberries too. Right off the bush.
Today I chased a coyote. Hurrah hurrah. It was small and yellow with big ears, and it was trying to eat our sheep.
131- ohhh, I hate coyotes, or anything that kills livestock (except chickens, i really don’t much like the chickens) my dog looks kinda like a coyote, only black (ish)
I need to send in some holstein pictures, I keep saying I will and I forget
I don’t hate them; after all, they need to eat and our sheep are just sitting there, but they are certainly inconvenient.
Alice-Do you sell your wool to anybody?
134- Nope. We don’t even shear them, unless it’s necessary. They shed of their own accord.
135 – Then are the sheep just pets? Or do they serve some other purpose?
136- Pets and meat.
I’m going to get rid of a rabbit! I’m going to get rid of a rabbit! *dances* Hooray! Three cheers!
137 – Do you slaughter them yourself?
Sorry if this discussion turns morbid.
138 – Congratz! Why do you want to get rid of them?
139- I don’t slaughter them, no.
I want to get rid of rabbits because I, in my stupidity, decided that I wanted to breed them. I did so, and ended up with 4 extra rabbits that were impossible to get rid of, and which brought my total up to 7. I managed to get rid of one, but six rabbits is still an awful lot when you only want 2.
I have been picking raspberries. I got quite a few, and would have got more if I hadn’t eaten quite so many.
I’ve beem picking (black) raspberries, too! only they are kinda small growing wild so it takes a while to fill a basket and we don’t usually use them for anything but eating fresh, maybe we’ll try jam this year…
PS- sour cherry jam is the best!!!
oh, and I got rid of my rabbits a while ago, now I don’t have any and I kinda miss having them, but I hear all kinds of stories about one of them that we gave to some friends from church. The kids had never had any other pets, and they finally convinced their parents to let them have a rabbit, now they do all sorts of stuff with it (they got a leash and walk it around outside, they feed it all sorts of stuff to see what it likes best… all sorts of stuff that I would never of thought to do, or wanted to try, I bet he’s a fat, happy bunny!)
I got more calves! they are soo cute, this will give me a reason to send in more pics
I named them Chrissy, Anna, Diana, and Betsy
ohhh, I’m so excited!!!
and I might get a job milking cows at my uncle’s farm
and that’s about it
YAY~!!! MORE COWS!!!!!!!!!
Yay! Good for you! Good for the calves…
I have to go walk around the fence today and pick the grass out so that it doesn’t short out.
When we got back from Mexico, we found that our raspberries had ripened! And the birds didn’t find them yet, which was very very lucky.
My cousins have three horses and a bunch of chickens, but it’s hard to have that kind of thing in the city
143- turn the fencer off first! it could be painful otherwise
144- Our raspberries don’t come untill late july… and yeah, I would hate to live in the city, no animals or land or anything…
It rained all 4th of July, but that’s good, for us farmers, we needed it, and we got it, tho I bet fireworks didn’t do so well in that weather, oh well Today is hot and humid, I hate it when it’s like this, I don’t feel like doing anything but there’s so much I should do
not to ramble boringly, but I think I’m gonna have the very first tomatoes around here! I started some plants in the greenhouse in school in, like, March, and now there is already some ripe fruit! it’s waaay early for tomatoes! Does anyone like tomato sandwiches? I always used to eat them at grandmas, and they had to be just perfect : One slice of bread (toasted), mayonaise, a couple slices of tomato (thinly sliced) salt and pepper, and some tiny little pieces of onion for crunch and taste on top, ohhh, I can’t wait!
ok, ya, that was relatively pointless, but the topic of tomato sandwiches can be interesting
I adore tomato sandwiches.
I just heard today that another one of my heifers that I sold had a calf (that means I have another “grandchild”) and I just figured out that my heifer that I’ve had since I was 12 and I’m keeping is due to calve in 18 days!!! I’m so excited!!! I’m going to be a camp, so that’s too bad, but maybe she’ll be a little late and I’ll be here, I’m going to name it Daisy if it’s a girl and (maybe) solomon if it’s a boy (I hope it’s a girl)
So . . . today our ram, Marcus, was startled by some squawking chickens and bolted past me. But not really past me, because his horns caught my face, and his legs caught my shoulder.
I don’t think I’m bruised though . . .
how are you possibly not bruised by that?!? it sounds pretty bad. When I was little I was always pretty scared of all the sheep, except the lambs, but the ewes were “protective” and the rams were just mean, oh well, I probably wouldn’t be so scared now… oh, and Marcus is a cool name, boy names are easy, but we have mostly girls on this farm and it’s hard to think of good girl names, I have a whole lits of boy names I’m waiting to use
149- Well, it probably sounds worse than it was. And I felt awfully bruised for a while.
I was always scared of sheep when I was little too, but then, I was also scared of chickens, so…
All our female sheep are named after flowers (well, the ones that were born here), and all of our rams have had classical names. Except Woolly. But Woolly was very mean, too.
145- Yeah, really painful.
Does anyone else know a horse that will do the hokey-pokey or is it just something that developed here from being so close to a bazillion stupid as can be cows?
150- oh my god, I was terrified of chickens too! their beaks and beady little eyes and all… especailly the rooster, he was really mean, he attacked me once… oh, do you have a ram named Solomon? I like that name, I’m gonna use it for my next bull, and we just had Nicodemus (Nicky) and that was a cool name
151- I don’t know any hokey-pokey-doing horses, but as for the “stupid as can be cows”… hmmm… I don’t know any of them either
152- No, we’ve never had a Solomon… We had an Alexander once.
have u ever had a Lucas? I’m thinking about Lucas and Marcus for the 2 baby kittens that were born today (if they are both boys, that is)
154- Nope. I knew a boy named Lucas once…
me too
the mother of the baby kittens is sorta abandoning them, I hate it when that happens! the poor little babies, we tried saving one once, but a kitten just a couple days old is almost impossible to save, so sad…
otherwise… countdown to my calf being born:15 days
so what are you guys doing with your summers? you’d think life here on a farm would be all interesting and always something going on, and I gues there would be stuff for me to do if I wanted to work outide in the heat, but it is just so hot and humid. I hate to just sit around and do nothing but… I really hate being hot, I was milking with my cousins yesterday night and cows produce a lot of heat, we were all literally driping sweat, wiping our faces with the paper towels and soaking them… ya, probably too much description there but you get the idea
Ugh, it was waaaaaaay to hot yesterday. 90° at least, and the wind was from the north-east, in other words, from the hot dry dusty country with lots of pine trees. Ugh.
yuk, I hate the hot weather
I’m going to the county fair today, maybe next year I’ll bring some cows to show like I used to
oh, and Alice: I went searching for black raspberries today with my little brother and on the corner of one of my brother’s fields was onw single patch of black berries, the kind you have, and there were 3 ripe berries there, so now I know about the black berries that you haave
Everyone who is living in places with humid, hot weather should come to PA…it’s amazingly cool and lovely. We had a thunderstorm yesterday and as I hoped, it took all the heat away. Humidity too.
Black raspberries! *mouth waters*
159- I would if I could, honest.
159- my brother is going there tomorrow! I don’t live too far from there and we recently had a T-storm too, so it has cooled down a little in the past few days, it’s nice
countdown to my calf being born:13 days
hey fuys, did anyone notice that today is friday the 13th? ooohhhhh, scary!
There is a distinct and obvious difference between a dead animal and a live animal, even from a distance. Today I went up to feed the sheep, and saw that the fence was broken down. I fed the sheep, and then saw that although no one had got out, there was a sheep tangled in the fence. I went to check that the fence was off, but the sheep looked . . . well, dead. Which he was. He either broke his neck or strangled himself, because the fence was most definitely NOT electrocuted. So now we’re short one sheep. It was Benjamin, the really nice-looking and friendly young ram. I could tell when the other ram, Jet, was dead too, though admittedly that was because he was in a very unnatural position.
wow, that’s sad… I’ll coment more tomorrow
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162- do you suspect maybe predators? I know certain predators don’t kill and eat, they just like to kill for fun. And maybe it just scared the sheep. That is a realy strange thing, to have a sheep just dead without much in the way of evidence
My cows got out today… early this morning I heard a moo-ing just out my window, I looked and there was Jenny! wow, not cool. So I got up and dressed quickly, ran downstairs (no one else was awake) and outsside to roundup the animals… then I found that they had also trashed the barn (ripped open bags, ate all the calf feed, pooped everywhere… I guess I have my work cut out for me today… cleaning the barn)
164- Oh, there was plenty evidence. He stuck his head through the not-electrocuted electric fence, his horn got stuck, and he started to thrash around. Somehow he twisted the fence around about seven times, and either strangled him or broke his neck. It wasn’t a predator.
165-Aw…
I don’t have any farm animals. A quarter acre wouldn’t hold much, especially in a neighborhood…
163-Cute message!
165- oh, that’s too bad
I was helping out at aa vacation bible school in town when my dad called me on my ceol phone and said that all the cows were out… Oh, great
Dad and my brother rounded them all up, I guess they had gone miles away from home, but they finally had them all… all but two… Crissy and Diana, my sweetest and most friendly baby calves, were still missing.
Dad found them much later when someone that was taking a walk or jog came down our road… with 2 little calves following close behind her! According to my dad, she found it hilarious.
So that is my animal story for the day (actually it happened yeasterday but still)
exactly one week’till my cow is due to calve! I hope she waits a day or 2 so I’m there and not at camp!
We have CHICKIES! They’re cute. I wonder how long they’ll last…
Well, so far they’re still alive and well. Isn’t that great?
yeah, that’s cool!
we got our meat birds butchered on tuesday (but I was at camp all last week so I wasn’t here to see/help)
today we got 3 little pigs
a week ago my cow had her calf, a little boy, I wanted a girl but little Willie is so cute (he’s got a “W” on his head for Willie) I’ve started milking morning and night now which is a pretty big job… but I bottle feed Willie afterwards which is really fun, and I can take him on walks without a rope, he just follows me around everywhere
169: I’m guessing they’ll last until… they turn into chickens!
good one
haha, yeah, chickies tend to do that, unless their killed, and that’s sad, but not too sad because I never felt very attached to chickens.
I took my calf for a walk today over to the orchard. We are now enjoying peaches and a few apricots
Well, they’re dead now. And we only have three chickens.
so sad, well, I never really liked chickens, but still. The cows got out today and somebody called the sheriff…
The first blackberries are ripening. Most of them are still pretty sour, but if you know what a ripe berry looks and feels like, you can find some.
I feel like I haven’t been on here to say much in a long time, what with people visiting and then camp and lots of work with my cows… so here goes
We had some blackberries a while ago, not many, I just found a single little patch in a hedgerow on the very end of an obscure field, My little brother and I were just joyriding in the gator, driving around our property (there’s an excellent view of the lake from our land) and we happened to find it. So I tasted a blackberry (and just one berry, there were only 2 ripe) They taste a lot like blackraspberries, but they are a little bigger.
Little Willie the baby calf continues to grow, but I can still pick him up, so he’s not too big yet. I feed him a quart of milk by bottle morning and night and he just goes crazy, It’s hard to keep a hold on the botttle because of the way he butts with his head so much, but it’s also really fun to feed him (my baby).
The pigs are doing well, getting all the extra milk that we don’t drink or feed to Willie along with kitchen scraps, includig a large amount of peach pealings since our peaches are getting ripe very quickly. We have more peach trees that anything else (7 or 8 at my last count) so today we will be picking, pealing, canning, and making jam this afternoon. We’ve also been enjoying a peach pie almost every night…delicious!
Mmm, peaches. I wish we had peach trees here. I’ve checked the plums about five times in two days, even though they are nowhere NEAR ripe, but I haven’t checked the Asian pears in a while, hmmm…
I was just out harvesting every ripe blackberry there was, except for the ones up high. I found a very nice patch too, it was (and still is, sort of) in the sun, so all the blackberries had ripened really fast and they were sweet and juicy. Mmmmmmm… Later I’m going to go up and look for blackberries around the edge of the pasture.
Oooh so cutecute yes they are cute!
Wow! I LOVE horses and goats. (kind of close to sheep) I confess that I’m not a real chicken fan, but I do like talking chicken. I can actually sound like a chicken. I can sound like a sheep too, but I learned not to do that after I had a certain incident with a ram. My sister and I went on a hike on our trip to Ireland. Our hike unfortunately took us past a sheep pasture. We were hiking through mountains, so it was a good thing that we were walking by a fence, because farmers sometimes have their sheep roam in the mountain areas. I saw a sheep and I started “Baaaaaaaaaaaaing” to them. It was only after a few minets of this that I realized that I was upsetting a ram that had before been out of my vision. Whether it thought I was a female sheep or another ram, I’ll never know, but let me tell you, I was lucky that fence was there.
182-
I want to go to Ireland.
We had a truly awful ram once, and his name was Woolly. He might have been a nice ram if we hadn’t coddled him so when he was a baby and cute and fuzzy. When he grew up he was very mean and you couldn’t step inside the fence without him trying to smash his horns into you. So my dad always had to take a hose when he went into the pasture and spray him to keep him away. Once there was a kink in the hose, but luckily it unkinked before Woolly got to him. Another time there was a guy visiting who decided to go into the pasture, even though he was warned. I didn’t see it, but supposedly he vaulted the fence very fast.
When my dad was little they had a pasture for their bull and he really wasn’t that mean, but he would follow anyone around. so once there was a hunter that wanted to get across the pasture to the woods (that he didn’t have permission to hunt in) so he rolled under the fence and started going across the pasture when this bull comes following him, so he walks faster and so does the bull so he runs and so does the bull, and he seriously freaked out and did make it out of the fence but my grandma watched it all from the kitchen window and she thinks it served him right for tresspassing on our land
Ehehehe. I got to paint a gelding hot pink. Hooves included. And one of the horses went (entirely without costume) as a moose. Huzzah for weird costume classes, right?
185- are you kidding? They did that at the camp I went to in July, I guess they used kool – aid and the horse looked really wierd
185- I tried to paint a horse once. It didn’t enjoy that.
We’re getting rid of three sheep today. My favorite ewe, too.
187- oh that’s sad, dad wants me to get rid of my steer and I probably will but I’ve had him for over 2 years now and I don’t really want to but I guess he is getting a little rough and dangerous… oh well it’s life
we’ve been busy with peaches and pears and our special variety of kiwis that grow in upstate new york are just geting ripe, our everbearing variety of strawberries are still giving fruit and we just finished with our small summer apple tree (which makes the best fruit EVER!!!)
Little baby calf Willie is still very sweet and incredibly strong for his age, I took him on a walk today…well more of a run/prance. It was fun.
Now I live in town. But I’m in the country for a while yet. Apples should be ripening next month, even though they aren’t the best kind, but they’re alright.
we don’t generally have good apples just for eating, we usually make apple sauce and we try to get a bunch of people over once or twice a year to help make apple cider “the old fashioned way” with a hand crank crusher and a hand crank squeezer, it makes the best cider ever and it’s A LOT of fun
Yum!
nice new name!
we went to Connecticut a while ago and my little brother saw a pint basket of big blackberries so he bought them ($4.50) and we ate them in the car, but we didn’t finish them, and they were in there for a couple days and they fermented or something and made the car smell awful, like super terribly miserably awfully bad!!!
well yeah, tht’s my story on blackberries, now I’d better go because I have to milk cows at my uncle’s farm tonight (I’m celebrating Labor day by working extra hard) we dug potatoes earlier this afternoon and just now I was letting my cows into the barn to eat grain, oh, and we got a chess set at a garage sale on unday so I’ve been playing “beat people at chess (unless they beat me)”
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192- Thank you! It’s because that’s my country in the pie war. Even though I spend most of my time lying unconscious with a huge lump on my head. Yay fun. Soon I will recover, I think.
Ew, yes, rotting blackberries are icky.
I celebrated Labor Day by going to a party and eating lots of chocolate and meeting a Muser. Funfun.
haha, I was milking with my cousins yesterday, they can be SO DUMB but it’s fun to watch. they shot eachother in the butt with the BB gun, I guess it left some bad marks, they were showing eachother…I didn’t look
And I wonder why I tend to avoid the male species . . .
COME HERE!
We are not a different species, and not all boys are crude. STOP GENERALIZING!
196- The different species thing was a joke.
None of the MB boys seem very crude, but my experience with boys is that they aren’t terribly refined.
However, my experience with boys has also been very, very, small, and I shouldn’t judge. Sorry.
*hurries off*
I have a good picture of my calf now on my computer, I should send it in to be on this thread, he is so cute
198- Yes, do!
I sent in the picture a few days ago…
(200) Elizabeth, we haven’t seen it.
hmmm… can you give me the e-mail address again? I might have it wrong…
Aww, I miss my sheep.