Rain and wind, will it ever end

The rain just keeps on coming. I just hope we get some this summer. The ground is so saturated that it can't absorb any more so we have water setting in every low spot on the farm. What doesn't make a small pond runs off and erodes everything.

And we couldn't have rain around here without wind. It blew my bird feeder behind the house 30 feet over the hill. The birds had already cleaned it out though. They didn't know to go to the post where the bird feeder was or where the bird feeder is now. I had birds in both places looking for food.

Here comes the rain. These are the clouds that produced the first picture. It looks dark and ominous, but it was just extremely hard rain. I've caught myself chanting " rain, rain go away, come again another day". I'm so aggravated that I'm chanting a kids song. Yeah, I'm aggravated; no potatoes in the ground, I can't get my old sheds cleaned up, I need to do some brush cutting and so many other things. It's all piling up. If I'm at work it's sunny, if I'm home it's raining. I just can't win for losing.

First morels of the season

I only found six little ones, but that's a start. My father found six yesterday evening. I'm hoping that I'll find a bunch more. I love eating these tasty little gifts from God. They are so good rolled in flour and fried in butter until golden brown. I just wish I had more. I saw a glow coming through the window the other evening. This strange reddish tinted glow. So I took the camera out and snapped a couple of photos of it. I love sunsets as you can tell by my header pictures.

Tryin to get things done.

This is my rainwater tank, I've yet to install it. It will help out with the animal watering and watering the garden. It's a 1,000 gallon tank. It should help out if the summer gets dry. It shows no sign of being dry lately with all the rain, but just like every year it will turn dry about late June or July and I'll be hauling water again. Well maybe not this year.

I've been cleaning a few fence rows lately. These fences need repair before we can get some cattle, but before we can repair them we have to clean them out and they are a mess with all the multa-flora rose around here. I still need to clean up the pond bank and the road banks and many other places. I have a bunch of brush to cut and I want to cut it before it greens up good. Now I don't have to worry about snakes and bees. So I want to get it done now.

Random Pictures

A pretty iris.

Some yummy chicken.

Dylan after feeding the beagles; Lucas and Blue.

Lucas and his guinea pal. The guinea posed for the picture, but Lucas just kept eating.

Cleaning Up Two Old Sheds

I've been cleaning up these old sheds for a month now. I work on it every spare minute I get. It was and is a mess. My grandfather used to stack square bales of hay in them.

And over the years the posts have rotted and it has fallen over making an even bigger mess. I took the tin off of it a couple years ago before it fell over or I would have been a major mess now. I want it cleaned up by the middle of April; so I've got a lot of work to do.

I love poultry, but not the prices

There's nothing more exciting to me than going to the chicken house and finding eggs. It's like treasure hunting. I think that it may be the only thing that excites me as much now as it did when I was a kid. I just love checking all the nests and finding the prizes that the hens left me. They gave me five today and usually anywhere from five to seven a day and I only have seven hens.

Here are my egg makers. I caught this rooster in full crow. Everytime I open the door both roosters start crowing and don't stop until I shut the door. It's extremely loud in this small chicken house. I love those roosters anyway; they are so docile and well mannered. They are Blue Laced Red Wyandottes. They don't eat that much feed and they seem to lay very well. I would recommend them to anyone and they are great for kids. My youngest son is afraid of chickens because of a rowdy Rhode Island Red rooster a couple years back and he was afraid of these at first, but now he goes right in and gets the eggs right among the chickens. They really are great birds.

I am looking to purchase some goslings or geese and I cannot believe the price of goslings. In every magazine and pamplet I look at they are anywhere from $8.00 to $23.00 a piece. To me that's high way robbery. The $8.00 ones cost an arm and a leg to ship; so if the price don't get you the shipping and the "other fees" will.

Does anyone know of any hatcheries out there with reasonable prices and shipping on goslings? If you do I'd appreciate any information you can give me.

A few random pictures