Life on the Ranch

    I must say that there is never a lack of goodies and yummy food in this household. It seems as if there is always someone in the kitchen making something - whether it be some great tasting meat for tacos, homemade salsa, oatmeal cookies or candies of some kind - there is always an abundance of food. Here are a few pics of just a few things: Onion Rings in a Rice Flour Batter: Yummy Homemade 3 Musketeer Bars: Pumpkins waiting to be turned into Pumpkin Bread: Some kind of cake for the Twins 7th Birthday: Many of these recipes can be found on a few of my daughter's blogs: Ranch Girl's Sweets 'N' Treats Got Down Syndrome Blog Recipes More later!! Time to go do chores!

Last week we had a little surprise show up under one of the trailers on our property. It is a new dog that we have given the name Buddy to. Here he is!

       It has been amazing how fast the new barn is coming together. Having a couple of skilled sons is also a big blessing as they have been hammering out the new stalls in the barn. Here are a few pics form the past week . . . just a few more finishing touches (like gates with hinges and wallfeeders) and it will be ready to go. My daughter and I did sneak some goats in there for the night due to a coming storm! After a hard day of work, it's time for a quick nap out by the fire pit!

What a nice surprise to go out and find 2 new kids already on the ground and cleaned up. Star, the black and white moonspotted Nubian, had a boy and a girl Boer looking set of twins just today! Pics later!

   We decided to get a few truckloads of what is called rock screenings for our new milking barn floor. It makes for a great floor that is really absorbent, doesn't mold or stay damp and packs down hard enough to actually just sweep off. Here are a few pics of the rock screenings being delivered and then flattened out by my crew and me.  

     Well, one of my sons let his mama pig and her piglets into the pond pasture that the goats are in yesterday. I'll post a few pics of them - don't really feel like getting much done on here as a bad stomach bug has been making it's way through our house and finally got me last night.

   The other day, I did a post entitled Feeding Frenzy  - that one was about our sheep and goats devouring a hay round in a week flat. Well, this time, my daughter got a few pics as I went out to the chicken and duck yard this morning with a bucket of scraps. Check these pics out - here's how to get 75 to 100 birds to follow you anywhere!