Some personal pictures from our new life at the farm

As construction starts to come to an end, until we sell the old house, build the barn (and John's shop), and then he starts working on cabinets, we will have more pictures of us living at our new place and some fun stuff we are trying as "farmers".

What could we be doing with all this hay?

Getting ready for some hunting!!

Matt has done well. One day when he can pull enough pounds, those deer will be filling my freezer!

He wanted you to see how many times he hit the SMALL pumpkin!

Mark is preparing for the Fall Fowl Festival with the 4H Poultry Club President, Tommy.

He is using one of our Americanas to do Showmanship.

He is showing our new Cochin Hen. She did OK.

RIP to our Cochin Rooster. He died in November. We had him examined by a vet for the 4H Poultry kids and found out he had lots of birth defects. The one that likely caused his death was an over-sized heart. He was a sweetie after all! :(

Mark is doing Showmanship. This is where he tells a judge everything he knows about chickens and this breed in particular. He got 80 our of 100, which everyone feels was a great job for the first time. He is looking forward to trying again.

Some of our 4H Poultry kids after placing for showmanship.

A double rainbow for the first time at our new home.

What am I going to do with all these feed bags. I will post soon.

Lots of catching up to do

We have moved into the house, and life is moving fast. I have not been able to take as many pictures as I wanted but I have a few. I will take some more today and post them of our first Christmas at our new home. There is still a lot of work to be done, but like our sign says "Welcome to the Funny Farm. We might not have it all together, but together we have it all". Welcome to our new world. Welcome to our blessing!

Our Portico columns are going up. Each column took about 20 bags of cement each. 

There goes the roof!

We are trying to figure out, does it look bigger with the portico or without.

Our first fire in the new fireplace. The big screen TV will be there but you need to see the Christmas pictures. 

The last thing to be done on the portico is the stone up the column. John says that needs to be the spring or summer so it can set quicker in warmer temperatures.