I'm Back !!

Well after several tries I'm back on Blogger. I will be around to visit :) I thought I would post some pictures of the Father Daughter Retreat from this year. Acelia and Scott went to visit a farm and had a great time.

They loved this goat and his rock climbing abilities. This structure gave us some ideas for our own goat pen.

This picture and the next is so cute. I have no idea what kind of goat that is on the horses back. I think it may be a dwarf pygmy goat or something.

Can you recognize this little girl?

I don't know this person! :)

Scott and Acelia have never been horseback riding. They thought they would give it a try.

They had a great time. I love this retreat and the things Acelia and Scott learn and bring home to share. I just received the cd's so I am looking forward to listening to them.

Well, we have been very busy trying to get school finished up and out of the way. Some of our subjects we will have to do through the summer, but we don't mind that.

We have had a crew working long hours building our pasture and I can't wait to post pictures of it. Scott and the boys will be building our turkey pen this week. Our 15 baby turkeys will be here on the 27th of May.

Well I'm off to visit some blogs that I haven't been able to leave comments on for weeks!

I was wondering if anyone could help me with a tech question. I would like to put some background prints on the sides of my blog page and in my title. Is this easy to do? How do I do it or where do I go to find out how?

Have a blessed day!

Is it just me?

I have been having a lot of trouble with Google, and I was just wondering if it is my computer or if others out there are experiencing issues too. I can't seem to stay logged on to my Google home page. That isn't a big deal, but I can't sign it to my personal Google home page, which means I can't get to my blog to post. ???? I guess I will just have to deal with the frustration for now.


My family has been busy burning brush, planting, raking, and mulching. We are going to start the goat barn sometime next week.


Dean decided to break up the busy week by falling thru the old barn roof! He caught himself with his hands and drove a roofing nail (an old tar covered roofing nail!!!) through his hand. It hit the joint and usually they do surgery and open the joint to clean it well so no infection will get in it, and cause him problems down the road, but in Deans case they were able to pull the nail out, and flush out the wound really well. We just need to keep it dry and bandaged for awhile. So he is getting caught up on some sleep due to the pain meds, and will hopefully be back in the swing of things soon. We had a late night last night. We thought we were going for surgery, and that meant a hour and a half trip with our son and his nail! God is good and we were able to stay right here and have the nail removed.


Yesterday I spent the day with some help planting 46 asparagus plants. My helpers dug 8, 8 foot trenches, 15 inches deep. Thank goodness that job is done. Now I have to till the regular garden, and get some more peas in, my lettuce, and some kale. I am hoping to go pick some fiddleheads to freeze, and some to eat later next week.


I hope to post some pictures later this week. It's going to rain Thursday so that will mean a nice day inside to relax, and catch up on some things. For now thought it is off to do some laundry, pick up the kitchen and fall into bed.

Hope you are all having a great week.

Our new Goats

Good Morning! We have been right out straight around here. I planted a row of peas Saturday, and the boys and Scott went turkey hunting. Timothy shot a 15 lb turkey. I should have the picture tomorrow. You all would not believe what I have been doing with my children. Let's just say it doesn't take much to make me happy. It involves a barn, a shovel, a truck, and a whole lot of stuff 4 cows left behind :0 My flowers and garden will be very happy this year! I was so happy because my dirt is very poor, and my garden didn't do too well last year.

I am finally posting the pictures of our first and second trip to Mapleshade Farm.


Here I am trying too hard to milk this goat. I did finally catch on after 3 or 4 tries.

Timothy was a natural!!

Acelia had no problem at all!

Dean had no trouble.

David did great!

Scott had no trouble! I guess I was just a little nervous I was going to hurt her. Once I relaxed a little I started to get the hang of it.

These next few pictures were from yesterday!

A little buck kid! Cute as a button!

These are the twins that were born right after our first trip. One of these is for sale.


This is Lance, David's goat. He can not wait to bring him home. We need to spend a lot more time with him, learning all we can before we bring him home so we will both be happy.

This is my goat Paper, she is so sweet. I took her for a little walk yesterday, and she was so good.

This is Ginger Snap, we are going to call her Ginger though. This is Acelia's new baby. I love the black boots she is wearing.

They bonded very nicely. I think Acelia is very excited. We can't wait to go again.

Hope you all have a great day. It's raining here, and I am thankful , I can get some house work done!

The Barn

This morning we were very busy pulling this old barn down. There is alot of pictures here. We are thankful to have it on the ground with no one hurt :)

I was amazed and saddened to see all the HAND work that went into this big barn. All of the beams were done by hand. AMAZING!!

Even the pegs that hold it together were by hand.

This is the beginning of the fall......



The old barn is finally at rest on the ground and Scott and the boys can start to tear it apart. We were saddened by it though. It must have been a great barn in its day.

Father and son talk over the plan to start tearing it apart and numbering the boards. We hope to rebuild it sometime next year if the Lord is willing.

What A Day !!!!!!

Finally the snow is gone and good news!! The ground never froze, because we got so much snow so quickly it just insulated the ground. My plants are coming up like crazy!! The section of little rocks off the right side is my blueberry bushes. There are three there soon to be four. They are coming along pretty good. I have to prune them though.


This is the view from the opposite end. I started laying black plastic and mulch down last fall, but ran out of money and time! :) I am hoping to finish this year.

This is Acelia's frog that has been waiting all winter to come out. As you can see he is very happy and thankful for the warm weather! We all are!!

My tulips are starting to come up! I planted 100 around my flag pole. They are so pretty when they are all in bloom.



I found this bit of color coming up. They are so sweet and pretty!

I cant remember what this is. I think it is my bleeding heart. I'm not sure though.

While I was busy in the garden, they guys were burning the brush Dean cut last summer. We will be doing this all week. They have one pile going good!

Now they have two going good!!

This one was the biggest. We worked till dark. We were all dirty, smokey, and tired. When we looked around and saw all the hard work we all put in, and all we accomplished we all felt really good!

Well I am out of here to rake and clean the yard some more.

Have a great day!!

Our New Additions

Well I don't have any pictures...............Yet! This morning our family got up bright and early and went back to the goat farm. We are getting three goats! Paper, who is a female yearling, and a new baby!! :)The baby is one week and 2 days old, and cute as a button. We are so excited! David is using his own money and buying Lance as his personal pal ! They will be great together! We couldn't find the camera in the car so we didn't get any pictures till later in the visit. We all had a really quick try at milking a goat. Lets just say I'm glad everyone else can milk!! I did do ok, but definitely need some more practice! :)
I'll post some of the pictures once they are all downloaded on my computer!
Have a great weekend!

Twelve Pillars of Biblical Womanhood

Acelia shared the Twelve Pillars of Biblical Womanhood with me last night. It comes from the Vision Forum 2008 Father Daughter Retreat. It is a beautiful yet simple piece of cardstock with the image of a mother and daughter on the front with the twelve pillars listed with scripture.

I thought I would share them with you:

Twelve Pillars of Biblical Womanhood

1. An Image Bearer ~ Genesis 1:26-27

2. A Woman Not a Man ~ Genesis 2:21-23

3. A Disciple ~ Deuteronomy 6:7

4. A Member of the Church ~ Act 2:49

5. A Demonstration of Unfading Beauty ~ 1 Peter 3:4

6. A Helpmeet ~ Genesis 2:18

7. A Trustful and Submissive Wife ~ Ephesians 5:22

8. A Keeper at Home ~ Titus 2:5

9. A Domestic Entrepreneur ~ Proverbs 31:10-31

10. A Fruitful Bearer of Children ~ Genesis 1:28

11 A Teacher of the Next Generation ~ Ephesians 6:1-3

12. A Godly Mentor ~ Titus 2:3-5

As you can see from the picture above they had great weather, sunny and warm :) Everything here is melting so fast. I'm thankful :) Maybe I can post a picture of my flower garden by the end of the week!!

Have a great day!