A Slow sad week

So... there hasn't been a lot of post for over a week. The weather has been crappy- think I'm kidding? We seriously had snow flurrie...

Fur baby for Mommy's day

This is my new Baby...Mack, he's 3 months old. Energetic but sweet tempered. He has beautiful coloring, and he and Nathan are becoming ...

Diggin' it

Remember in a previous post I comment on Chris new obsession ? Well, He started side project of cutting out all the letter of Nathan's n...

our little buddy

This was our little buddy Poor little guy...He was still taking some milk at this point

Sad day around here

We were very excited around here last night. We got our first actual farm animal. but the story gets very sad from there. I responded to an ...

tommorow

we got home very late tonight, with another new addition. It took quite awhile to get everyone settled ...so I'll post some pics of our ...

1st Farm Animal

We have a brand new addition to the acreage. A 4 week old kitten (we think it's a girl- but it's hard to tell at this young age) ...

ohhh I'm so smart

or at least I like to think I'm smart. But I think I've come up with a plan! You see more than one person was concerned about me bec...

Can someone explain this?

I really need to know what the fascination with Men and Fire is? I'm not complaining I love a fire, indoors or out they're both goo...

argghhh...WIND

I thought Lethbridge was suppose to be the wind capital of Alberta- I didn't find the wind half as annoying down there~ then again I hi...

Miss Maggie

I wrote awhile ago about our first night here and how Maggie the city dog almost got eaten by coyotes, because she was to busy sleeping. So...

shopping & garden planning

I called my Mother in Law this morning for advice on where to plant the stuff we bought at the farmers market yesterday...her advice was ful...

Mending fences

It was a big FENCE day around here, We we're excited because the previous owner was true to his word and showed up with new gate ( Yay -...

gettting excited about the garden

We went and explored the farms market today~ I suppose it's early in the season...there were only three tables set up. Eggs Homemade qui...

farmers market listings

find alberta approved farmers markets in your area http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/app21/rtw/markets/markets_map.jsp

Government RED Tape

Well, The issue of whether we're going to the auction is solved!!! I thought I'd look up some more info on sheep, and the different ...

torn

We're a little up in the air about tomorrow. There is an auction of Exotic Birds and livestock close by, and I really want to go. But w...

A new animal obsession

We've been discussing SHEEP -for quite sometime. Other than I think the pastures need some work and we don't actually have a traile...

chicken coop

I'd set aside about a thousand dollars to build a chicken coop here, So I was absolutely thrilled, when I finally got into the back of ...

note

any post may be few and far between for a bit since we do not have internet out there yet... keep your fingers crossed that'll we'l...

and so it begins

WOW- I don't even know where to start. We took possession of the acreage yesterday at noon. And it's been an event filled time ever...

Puppy!!!

I'm so excited! I mentioned in my dog days of summer post that I really wanted a male dog. Chris and I have gone back and forth about a...

some excellent websites

so I was cruising around looking at sheep and Chicken stuff and found a few interesting and informative stuff. I found Miller Hatcheries a...

More research

Although we've been running around like crazy lately, I did manage to find a pretty cool website/resource about chicken off a link from ...

Inspection

Chris has been off for 4 whole days and you would think that I'd have had more time to actually do some blogging or something....but we...

waitin' on the DOG days of summer

Other than a bunch of organizing (I'm desperately trying to get all our "excess" stuff into the garbage to to the thrift stor...

Research

Mother Earth News-wiser living series Guide to Growing your Own Food a magazine I found in the book section at Wal -mart actually about a mo...