So today I was making supper and looked out of the window and what do I see? I see my amazing husband and my sweet daughter gardening together :) He was showing her how to do something. I'm not sure what it was but she rann off like a bullet and grabbed something for him then ran back and they were off working again. I don't think I will ever get over the felling of aww that I get when I see them together bonding and having a good time doing normal dad and daughter things. It kind of makes me want to cry (and only cried hard that one time, thank you!) I never thought I'd see Cielo go out of her comfort zone and do kid/dad things, only the kid/mom things. My heart is full everyday and I think there is no more room but then I look at both of them and it grows a little bit more and it makes a bit more room for next time. I can't imaging what my life would have been like if I hadn't had Cielo & met Jonathon.
I read a story today that made me cry. I'm a member of a chicken website (insert snikers here from people that think I'm crazy) and there is a forum and one of them is a space to post about your family. A lady from south TX posted about the crap sentence that they gave the drunk idiot that killed 2 people and crippled her sister and another friend. It reminded me of Andrew. I miss him every day and wonder if he would have liked Jonthon. I like to think that they would have been great friends :) They both work harder than anyone else I know and have a way of making me smile just by existing. I think he would have been proud of Cielo and how smart she is and all of the things she is doing in school and how far ahead of her class she is. I wonder what he would have thought about my ducks and my chickens and the garden and our little farm we are making. Maybe he would have thought I am crazy but at the same time I bet he would have secretly loved it, lol. I miss him today. I miss him every day but today I miss him more. I miss his laugh and that half smile and his big hugs. Today I could use an Andrew hug. I'm greatfull that he hugged me that last time that I saw him because I know that that day he was happy and that it was a good day for him. I missed him at our wedding. He would have been my maid of honor if he had been here, sorry Ash lol.
I think I'm going to get a couple more chickens in a few months. The cornish crosses that we got are amazingly sweet. Every day I go out back and they come running up to me like I'm the best thing they have ever seen. They are the 2 we have left from the batch we bought at Gebo's when we bought the ducks. Maybe it's because they are the runts and they have been sick and their brooder-mates died or maybe it's because they have been picked on by every chicken and duck we have or it's just their little personalities but there is something about them that I don't want to lose them. They are super sweet and they depend on us so much. There is something about the way they run up to me when I go outside that I could watch them and cuddle them all day. I know it's crazy that I would care so much about a chicken or a duck but I don't mind being crazy because when you meet them you will like them and feel the same way about them :)
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Night, night time babies...
Today was long! We got up this morning and started with the garden. We bought a lot of plants on the way home from Houston and they were pretty sad looking. We were wanting to wait until the wind died down a little bit... big joke I know :/ So finally we decided that today was the day no matter what. So we got up and first thing was to feed all of everybody. I went to the duck pen first of course and everyone was in the chicken coop! They are usually all in the duck coop but last night the door blew off and I guess it was to windy for everyone so they went to hang out in the other coop for a change. So me and Cielo cleaned the pool (we really need a bigger one) got everyone some water and food and we had some happy babies.
The baby chicks are all doing great now. Momma is doing much better since she is isolated with them and big brothers and big sisters can't step on them. We took the 2 cornish out of the banty coop because even though they are bigger than the others they are still at the bottom of the pecking order. They seem to be doing better but looked like they were trying to get back into their home :( I feel really bad for them but there is nothing we can really do for the poor things, they were just from a really bad batch of chicks. But I really like them because they come to you and trust you without question.
I think my big chickens are going to start molting soon or they are just being stubborn butts because they have only laid 2 eggs total in the last 3 days! Dang chickens. I really hope not though because I dont want to deal with skinny featherless chickens.
Cielo went with my mom today. When she is gone it is always so quiet. There is just one of her and I swear it's like 20 of her are gone because its so quiet. That kid makes me laugh so much. She called before bed time but hardly listened to a word I said, of course. But When I missed one thing she said, oh goodness, It was the end of the world. lol... good thing she comes home tomorrow :)
Dad and Jonathon did amazing on the garden today. I cant wait till we can start getting vegetables from outside. I am so ready to cook fresh it's rediculous. I have recipes set out and ready for the first veggies that I can pick. YUM!
I put all the babies night night but it's not like they stay where I put them... lol. Silly ducks and chickens were ALL sleeping outside of their coops! Every last one is sleeping outside of the shelter that we built them. Oh well, I guess its because I don't make them go in as babies so they don't go in as adults. But they are so cute! The babies came and played with us before bed time, but then they peep because they want to come back and be with us, cute babies :)
Now everyone is in bed and I guess it really is night night time... So... night, night babies
The baby chicks are all doing great now. Momma is doing much better since she is isolated with them and big brothers and big sisters can't step on them. We took the 2 cornish out of the banty coop because even though they are bigger than the others they are still at the bottom of the pecking order. They seem to be doing better but looked like they were trying to get back into their home :( I feel really bad for them but there is nothing we can really do for the poor things, they were just from a really bad batch of chicks. But I really like them because they come to you and trust you without question.
I think my big chickens are going to start molting soon or they are just being stubborn butts because they have only laid 2 eggs total in the last 3 days! Dang chickens. I really hope not though because I dont want to deal with skinny featherless chickens.
Cielo went with my mom today. When she is gone it is always so quiet. There is just one of her and I swear it's like 20 of her are gone because its so quiet. That kid makes me laugh so much. She called before bed time but hardly listened to a word I said, of course. But When I missed one thing she said, oh goodness, It was the end of the world. lol... good thing she comes home tomorrow :)
Dad and Jonathon did amazing on the garden today. I cant wait till we can start getting vegetables from outside. I am so ready to cook fresh it's rediculous. I have recipes set out and ready for the first veggies that I can pick. YUM!
I put all the babies night night but it's not like they stay where I put them... lol. Silly ducks and chickens were ALL sleeping outside of their coops! Every last one is sleeping outside of the shelter that we built them. Oh well, I guess its because I don't make them go in as babies so they don't go in as adults. But they are so cute! The babies came and played with us before bed time, but then they peep because they want to come back and be with us, cute babies :)
Now everyone is in bed and I guess it really is night night time... So... night, night babies
Saturday, April 16, 2011
So guess what???
Hehe!! I got 2 new duckies!!! Wait they are African Ground Parrots! I'm not allowed to have more ducks so that is what they are :D
Has anyone ever heard of chicken math? Well its very complicated and involves a lot of complex formulas but it works like this: 4 of our banty eggs did not hatch, and 3 of our banty chicks died of being cold/getting stepped on by the others. So this means I can get 2 ducks and still have the same amount of fowl in the back yard!!! The new babies are khaki campbells and they are so super cute!!! Oddly tho one is considerably smaller than the other. I wonder if her parents were smaller or if her egg was just smaller than the rest? They are both extreamly people oriented to. Last night the only way to get them to stop peeping was to sit next to their cage and talk to them and they only wanted to eat if I fed them :) This is a relly good thing becasue I know that when it is time to go out to the ducky pen with the others they will be a lot more receptive to Cielo in the pool with them which will really make her day.
I'm so ready to take them everywhere with me so that they can keep being really people friendly and maybe not cuss at me like the other ones do when I don't always have peas... lol. Well I think I am done getting ducks and chickens for this season now. I really did just want 2 more to put in the pen because I was worried that with just 4 ducks in the pen when the chickens are allowed to get out that they would be lonely. Now they can have their own little flock and just be happy little duckies. Well after we get them a bigger pool of course and a lifetime supply of peas. I really do hope that at least one of the new babies is a boy. We have 4 girls already and dang I really wanted babies later this year. Not a lot of babies just a couple. Cielo really wants to have a stand this summer so that she can sell chicken eggs, duck eggs, vegetables from our garden and lemon-aid. If we actually do it everyone has to drop by at least once to get something because she has her stand and prices all planned out already! $.50 for a cup of lemonaid, $1 per pund on veggies, $3 dozen chicken eggs and $4 dozen duck eggs. That is one smart kiddo!
So no everyone knows a little chicken math. Isn't farm life great? :D
Has anyone ever heard of chicken math? Well its very complicated and involves a lot of complex formulas but it works like this: 4 of our banty eggs did not hatch, and 3 of our banty chicks died of being cold/getting stepped on by the others. So this means I can get 2 ducks and still have the same amount of fowl in the back yard!!! The new babies are khaki campbells and they are so super cute!!! Oddly tho one is considerably smaller than the other. I wonder if her parents were smaller or if her egg was just smaller than the rest? They are both extreamly people oriented to. Last night the only way to get them to stop peeping was to sit next to their cage and talk to them and they only wanted to eat if I fed them :) This is a relly good thing becasue I know that when it is time to go out to the ducky pen with the others they will be a lot more receptive to Cielo in the pool with them which will really make her day.
I'm so ready to take them everywhere with me so that they can keep being really people friendly and maybe not cuss at me like the other ones do when I don't always have peas... lol. Well I think I am done getting ducks and chickens for this season now. I really did just want 2 more to put in the pen because I was worried that with just 4 ducks in the pen when the chickens are allowed to get out that they would be lonely. Now they can have their own little flock and just be happy little duckies. Well after we get them a bigger pool of course and a lifetime supply of peas. I really do hope that at least one of the new babies is a boy. We have 4 girls already and dang I really wanted babies later this year. Not a lot of babies just a couple. Cielo really wants to have a stand this summer so that she can sell chicken eggs, duck eggs, vegetables from our garden and lemon-aid. If we actually do it everyone has to drop by at least once to get something because she has her stand and prices all planned out already! $.50 for a cup of lemonaid, $1 per pund on veggies, $3 dozen chicken eggs and $4 dozen duck eggs. That is one smart kiddo!
So no everyone knows a little chicken math. Isn't farm life great? :D
Thursday, April 14, 2011
The chicks got stepped on :(
So today was the big hatch day and like a goof, Little-et led the chicks out of the nest box and they are way to small to get back in. I guess 2 of them wandered to far off and they got stepped on by the bigger ones and died :( I tried to save one but it was to late for the poor thing. They are now buried in the back yard under one of the trees. Poor things... I put momma and the remaining babies in another coop and locked them in so we can be sure not to have another incident like that one.
The duckies cussed me this morning to!! They were upset I didn't have treat and gave me that sideways look and kept quacking. That was the "you suck because you don't have treats" look and quack. So I went back out this afternoon and gave them some peas and cleaned the pool and gave them fresh water and food. What kind of thanks do I get? One quickly bites my necklace while I am bent over then they all avoid me like the plague the rest of the time that I am in the pen :/ My animals love me...lol
Jonathon has been in El Paso since Monday so I got to do this on my own this week. Not something I want to do again. Did I also mention I think we have chicken mites to? One more thing I had to try and figure out while he is gone. I don't think I like it when he is gone because then I have to do things on my own and I have no one to bounce ideas off of and no one to tell me I am crazy and over thinking things :) No one ever told me that would be one of the best things about marriage. Someone to always bounce ideas off of because you are a visual learner and they can actually understand the crazy things you say and can translate it to human for others to understand (he probably needs to explain that for me to so that it doesn't sound so bad... lol)
Lily bit my toe and made a little cut on the side while we were playing yesterday :/ that hurt but she didnt mean it so I have to forgive her this time. Poor thing is cooped up in the room all day and when we get home she gets way to excited. I think we need to put her outside so she can play with the chickens and ducks but maybe not becasue they have leaned that they can pick on her and she likes to eat chicken poo (ewww!!!!)
So that's my crazy couple of days. I can't wait till tomorrow when Jonathon gets home and I have my husband back so that he can make my crazy days better because he is much better at burying chicks than I am :P
The duckies cussed me this morning to!! They were upset I didn't have treat and gave me that sideways look and kept quacking. That was the "you suck because you don't have treats" look and quack. So I went back out this afternoon and gave them some peas and cleaned the pool and gave them fresh water and food. What kind of thanks do I get? One quickly bites my necklace while I am bent over then they all avoid me like the plague the rest of the time that I am in the pen :/ My animals love me...lol
Jonathon has been in El Paso since Monday so I got to do this on my own this week. Not something I want to do again. Did I also mention I think we have chicken mites to? One more thing I had to try and figure out while he is gone. I don't think I like it when he is gone because then I have to do things on my own and I have no one to bounce ideas off of and no one to tell me I am crazy and over thinking things :) No one ever told me that would be one of the best things about marriage. Someone to always bounce ideas off of because you are a visual learner and they can actually understand the crazy things you say and can translate it to human for others to understand (he probably needs to explain that for me to so that it doesn't sound so bad... lol)
Lily bit my toe and made a little cut on the side while we were playing yesterday :/ that hurt but she didnt mean it so I have to forgive her this time. Poor thing is cooped up in the room all day and when we get home she gets way to excited. I think we need to put her outside so she can play with the chickens and ducks but maybe not becasue they have leaned that they can pick on her and she likes to eat chicken poo (ewww!!!!)
So that's my crazy couple of days. I can't wait till tomorrow when Jonathon gets home and I have my husband back so that he can make my crazy days better because he is much better at burying chicks than I am :P
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Wind makes everything windblown :)
So this morning I was walking out to feed the babies and guess who is following me? Yep the silly 3 chickens! I stopped suddenly and 2 of them ran into me... lol. I got everyone fed before we had to head out but I guess I didn't feed my trio right. Cielo HAD to have 2 toaster strudels this morning so she popped them in the toaster and when they were done I put them on a plate for her and rushed her out the front door. Knowing my child as we all do, she of course has 50 other things to carry. I, on the other hand, have only my purse and the bag for the netbook and always put them behind my seat. So, Cielo has her plate of strudels, doll, folder; backpack and some other random "I NEED to take it to school" item.... Bad idea Cielo. The trio KNOW when you come out of the house and you have to have something to give them otherwise they will follow you everywhere. So as I'm pulling up my seat to put my bags in I hear a bloody murder scream and see Cielo running back to my side of the car because the chickens smell her strudels and are running at 100 mph towards her for a treat!!!! That had to have been one of the funniest things I have ever seen! Well until the next second when she ninja jumped over me into the car and made me put the seat back so the chickens couldn't get into the car :) Man life is funny with chickens... and a kid :)
So I'm not sure what else to talk about or what I can talk about in a blog really. I don't think I can talk about work, but I can say that when I retire I'm going to sit on my butt for a week. I will of course get out of the house to feed all of my animals but I think that might be about it. I might not even shower!!! Six years of people that should have been eaten a bear years ago is kind of hard but 30 years? Wow! Yep I'm going to sit on my butt all day for a week.
My family kind of rocks :) I came home today to fed, happy animals and my amazing husband cooked (leftovers but still awesome :)) I love that my husband gets to get home early this week. I like having him home when we get here. He tells me I cook to much though. I like cooking for my family. I think that they should always have something fresh and good. How many husbands are lucky enough to have a wife that cooks something fresh every day? Exactly! So I tell him all the time he is lucky I don't make him eat leftovers or tv dinners and he shouldn't complain... lol
I try to be a good wife and mom. I hope I'm doing a good job but I won't know how good of a job till way later in life. When my Cielo Marie is old and has babies of her own & I'm sitting in a rocking chair on my porch next to Jonathon...
So I'm not sure what else to talk about or what I can talk about in a blog really. I don't think I can talk about work, but I can say that when I retire I'm going to sit on my butt for a week. I will of course get out of the house to feed all of my animals but I think that might be about it. I might not even shower!!! Six years of people that should have been eaten a bear years ago is kind of hard but 30 years? Wow! Yep I'm going to sit on my butt all day for a week.
My family kind of rocks :) I came home today to fed, happy animals and my amazing husband cooked (leftovers but still awesome :)) I love that my husband gets to get home early this week. I like having him home when we get here. He tells me I cook to much though. I like cooking for my family. I think that they should always have something fresh and good. How many husbands are lucky enough to have a wife that cooks something fresh every day? Exactly! So I tell him all the time he is lucky I don't make him eat leftovers or tv dinners and he shouldn't complain... lol
I try to be a good wife and mom. I hope I'm doing a good job but I won't know how good of a job till way later in life. When my Cielo Marie is old and has babies of her own & I'm sitting in a rocking chair on my porch next to Jonathon...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
My New Blog!!!
So for some reason I thought it would be neat to blog. Just to tell about the random thinks I think and the funny things that go on at our "funny farm". So where do I start with this???
Houston! That was an amazing trip! It occurred to me on Friday while I was working I had never been totally and completely alone with Jonathon for that long of a time. Sure we've had date night or Cielo would go with Nana for the weekend but we'd have her half the day then pick her up the next afternoon. It was really great being alone with him for so long (even while missing my baby) and I'd love to do it again but not to soon because Cielo called every couple of hours :) Dinner at Aquarium was a great surprise (I highly recommend them) and so romantic I kind of wanted to cry but was way to excited to even try it. The concert was amazing! I was in the same room as the best cellist of our time!!!! I know dorky but wow it was neat! China town was pretty interesting too. I'm such a small town girl that the signs in oriental languages were fascinating to me lol. The drive home was great but kind of sad at the same time. The farther north we got the smaller the trees got and the dryer/browner things got to :( I'm not saying I would live in south Texas permanently but the green and the tall trees were a nice change of pace.
Duckies!!! As everyone knows I really like having my ducks and my chickens. My barred rocks are so funny and especially with the new rooster that we have for them. Henry and the girls are like animals from a scary movie lately. They will come running to me when I step outside because they know I have a treat somewhere for them. They love oats and if I don't have them with me then I'm in trouble. This morning when I went to feed my ducks I ran just to see if they would chase me or wait until I came back... Yep they chased me the whole way there!!! That had to have been one of the funniest things I have seen in a while :) Before I was sad because none of the chickens or ducks would come to me but now they know and they all get under my feet so we trip over each other. The teenage chicks live with the ducks which might have been a bad idea to put them all together. They don't sleep in their coops they sleep on the ground between the coops and snuggle together... awwww..... but not good when its cold out at night. Silly chickens and duckies, without them I'd only laugh at Cielo and Jonathon ;)
So for now I think that is all of my ramblings. I may have more coherent thoughts to ramble about later but I'm thinking it wasn't to bad for my first ever blog...
Houston! That was an amazing trip! It occurred to me on Friday while I was working I had never been totally and completely alone with Jonathon for that long of a time. Sure we've had date night or Cielo would go with Nana for the weekend but we'd have her half the day then pick her up the next afternoon. It was really great being alone with him for so long (even while missing my baby) and I'd love to do it again but not to soon because Cielo called every couple of hours :) Dinner at Aquarium was a great surprise (I highly recommend them) and so romantic I kind of wanted to cry but was way to excited to even try it. The concert was amazing! I was in the same room as the best cellist of our time!!!! I know dorky but wow it was neat! China town was pretty interesting too. I'm such a small town girl that the signs in oriental languages were fascinating to me lol. The drive home was great but kind of sad at the same time. The farther north we got the smaller the trees got and the dryer/browner things got to :( I'm not saying I would live in south Texas permanently but the green and the tall trees were a nice change of pace.
Duckies!!! As everyone knows I really like having my ducks and my chickens. My barred rocks are so funny and especially with the new rooster that we have for them. Henry and the girls are like animals from a scary movie lately. They will come running to me when I step outside because they know I have a treat somewhere for them. They love oats and if I don't have them with me then I'm in trouble. This morning when I went to feed my ducks I ran just to see if they would chase me or wait until I came back... Yep they chased me the whole way there!!! That had to have been one of the funniest things I have seen in a while :) Before I was sad because none of the chickens or ducks would come to me but now they know and they all get under my feet so we trip over each other. The teenage chicks live with the ducks which might have been a bad idea to put them all together. They don't sleep in their coops they sleep on the ground between the coops and snuggle together... awwww..... but not good when its cold out at night. Silly chickens and duckies, without them I'd only laugh at Cielo and Jonathon ;)
So for now I think that is all of my ramblings. I may have more coherent thoughts to ramble about later but I'm thinking it wasn't to bad for my first ever blog...
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