It was oh so hot even in Maryland the Beginning of May

Finally got the Maryland pictures loaded in.

This is just a spot in the 15 acre parking lot at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival










What a Crowd. All we could do was hold the camera up in the air to get the picture.












Em's favorite place to eat

Went to French Lick...Street Fest

Soon be a couple weeks ago we went to the French Lick Street Fest. It was in conjunction with the big PGA Golf Tournament. So hot all weekend. We went ahead and came on home Saturday evening. Storms were coming and didn't have the right anchors for the concrete for the Tent...On the way home Saturday evening I did enjoy the drive. The fields are just beautiful with Corn. Seems like there is lots of fields at different heights. The soy beans are like fields of green velvet....Just a nice time of year despite the heat,...

I have been out busy cleaning chicken pen this morning before the heat set in to bad...Got 4 wheel barrell loads out of chicken pen and over in a section of the garden where nothing is growing at the moment...Now it can rain....

I have to get outside. Connie isn't feeling well this morning. Have to go give her a beer drench...

DOG DAYS OF SUMMER

I have been out digging pototoes this morning. They are really nice but oh, the dirt is hard...I hear there will be rain by the end of the week. I think I will just make sure I am ready to dig again this weekend.

We had a wedding last weekend. My oldest is now a married man. They are on their honeymoon now....

We have been having some lambs over the last week. Great big lambs at that...Every evening when it cools down the great lambie races begin...They are so cute.

I am heading back outside to top off some water tanks and clean out on a pen....

BUSY,busy.....

We have been busy with the first part of lambing and kidding. Looks like the next round is fixing to get started...We had a set of twin goats born Saturday. It was a good thing we were here. The little buck was a big one. All came out well in the end. Both are real sweeties.
Last weekend we were in Franklin IN at Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival. We met lots of nice people & saw old friends...Bad part was when we came home to find someone had decided to cut down 12 trees on our corner property. I was busy all last week with that. We have no clue what the deal is. I just get sick when I look out that way and see the big ole gap in the tree line.
I have been working in the garden. Everything is coming right along. Something tells me it will start needing picked right in the middle of the time Mom and Add will be in from TX. I think I will tell her to bring jars so we can fill them...
It is only 3 weeks til the wedding now. I am excited. I told them both the other day I think the day they went and got their marriage license was to me the day a Mom realizes the kid is making big decisions....The ceremony just finalizes it...
This heat is horrible. I hope it is doing this now and when Mom and Add gets here it evens out. Texans can handle heat. I am just not sure about the humidity.
I am suppose to get my bathroom totally cleaned out. We are putting a new tub and shower surround in. That may be the only thing I will miss is the second bathroom. My other bath will go with Hannah/ Jarrod apartment. But we will make it. Just gotta get accustomed to it...
Em has the day off. We are going to run into town and do some errands. I need to get boxes to pack some fabric away.
I better get busy. Cat is wanting out...I will have to get a picture of him. He got a hair cut....

I think I have everybody tucked in for the night....

We have a whole bunch of chicks right now. They are a full time job til they get up a little larger. I think tomorrow I will be able to spread them into a couple cages. I will be able to put the bigger waters in also. That helps...

Fed my little bottle baby his last bottle for the evening. He is coming along nicely. His little belly is filling out and his walks are getting longer. Quite a cutie.

My Shetland ewe, Delilah had her lamb. She had a single ewe but she is just beautiful and black. Just loaded with curls...

We are having to move our lawn furniture . The electric company should be here in the next few days to trim back a tree there at the power line. They are actually going to cut a willow tree down out by the road. It seems the tree is just growing right for the power line...Since the drought a couple years ago it had been looking tacky.

My helper comes tomorrow. I have been putting together a to do list today as the day went. I think it is going to rain tomorrow so we will mainly work inside.

I am heading to bed. David watches LOST so I think I will go get some reading done...

It's Been a Little Chilly

Last couple days we have had to get our jackets back out. Wind to go along with it. Guess it was sent our way to remind us how nice and warm we have had it for this time of year...
Em and I went to Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival last weekend. I do love that show. It was a long trip out. We drove straight out, stayed a day and half and headed back. Split the trip up made it easier. It was toasty in MD. I mean like 95* both days. We walked around w/ lemonade in our hands. Inside the buildings got a little stuffy with all the people...I bought a Finn ewe lamb. She is a cutie and was a very good traveler...
We stayed in Comfort in there at Baltimore. We met this older gentleman who had come from IL with daughter and her family to pick up the kids sheep they had won from American Livestock Breeders Conservancy. I told him my daughter had done the same thing 5 yrs ago. We stayed in the Comfort Inn at Cambridge OH and the next morning got up and there they were again...It can be a small world.
I have been busy in the barn and house both. I am about ready to make a clean swoop out of the big room and take it to the barn. I need to get a shop ready out there and then get busy finishing up the apartment. Orange County is going to put out a Artisan Trail Brochure and we are going to be in it...It is in conjunction with the PGA Gold Tournament coming to French Lick....Yes, I know I don't live in OR County but they are very good to us. We participate in the ORANGE COUNTY Homegrown Farmer's Market also. Which brings me to the next subject. Farmer's Market starts in 2 weeks...Then a couple weeks after that is Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival then onto the Lotus Dickey Festival. Em and I went to Bedford the other day and noticed there is a bill board advertising the festival. Looks good. Is kinda high up in the air. Em saw it. I was watching the road...
we have been lambing and kidding both. Banner year for boys...I am not joking. We have ONE DOE. The only female born on the place...I am so proud of her ....She is from my favorite TEXAS doe...I have 2 more finn ewes to lamb. We will see...I am out there talking to them nicely ....
David trimmed some low limbs off the tree line trees. I can get along the fence mowed now. Got lots done. Sure looks nice. I am going to finish in the morning. It is suppose to rain Tuesday. Wednesday we will start over again probably. I hope the summer bonus is nice. I told David I sure would like one of those weed eaters on wheels...
Tomorrow is my birthday. I got my present from David early. He gave me a GPS unit to go to Maryland with. I had always thought I would not use one. Boy was I wrong. Em and I were laughing that we let a blk box lead us around. That is the handiest thing I know of...I have been wanting to go to Louisville wandering around. May just have to now. No, I haven't done much in Louisville. Have always gone to Bloomington...
I better get this day wound up. My little bottle baby is fed. Em made him walk all the way to the house to get his bottle. He did well. I put him up. Let me tell you...I didn't carry him... Well, except for the last 20 ft. He just stopped and sat down...He has a clean dog coat on and all warm now. I told him hopefully this was the last night for that...