Horse baths and New Project

New project first:

Little white, gray heifer calf.  She has 'Joint Ill' and Patrick opened up the infected joints and put drain tubes in them to keep the infection out.  Brought her home this morning and she's settling into the horse's run in.  Horses are NOT amused.  

She will be a resale once we wean her off the bottle, she'll be listed on Craigslist for sale.  

Horses kept running around like lunatics when she would Moo at them. 

 

So since they were so discombobulated over the calf.  Hot sweaty and gross, they got baths!  So they are semi clean.  At least they are alot cleaner than they were before.  I went out and sat in the backyard while they grazed some afterwards and got some pictures since I don't know when I'll get around to bathing them again.  Willow was having fun being a goof too.  

I had to take some of the empty rabbit cages out of the barn so I could get through to the calf.  Jess will be feeding it during the morning while I am not here, then I will give it, it's supper.  Jess wants to call it Baby.  Whatever, I didn't plan on giving it a name as it's not staying around!  She's just a 'let's see if she'll survive' kind of deal. 

Heidi is home again!

Heidi is home from Nelson's/Aunt Lisa's for breeding.  She showed no signs of coming back into heat when she should have so Nelson brought her home.  I am so happy to have her home and after a day or so they are BFF's again.  

Willow was trying to be a pointer.  She's a very hairy pointer.  

Apples!!  

They are getting bigger and more orange, but I believe the cedar rust on the apple trees themselves will cause the fruit to not get full size or something.  But we can spray the trees good next year and hopefully get MORE apples next year! 

Carter Caves- Cascade Cave

Jess went with me and we did the walking tour of Cascade Cave- a part of the Carter Caves system down in Carter County.  It was fantastic!

Under ground waterfall and everything! 

Apples and ponies!

Mom had me go out and check the plum trees for her and I did a check over on the apple trees as well  We got APPLES, no plums but we got apples on both trees! 

Oh yeah and a birds nest too.  At least it was empty at this point.

I cut down the grass from around the rose bushes.  I don't think it's been done for a while.  The big knock out rose had a wasp nest in it as well.  

They look kind of sad.  Been a while since the grass was removed from around them.

On the 1st I moved Heidi from Nelson's to Aunt Lisa's pond pasture for her to do her waiting period to see if she comes back into heat.  She will have up to 2 weeks with Aunt Lisa pending on the sheep pastures hold out for the sheep.  Heidi is happy to have a big clover filled pasture to make her super drooly

Tessa is hanging tough by herself here.  She does like her backyard grazing time she gets daily.  

The neighbors are scared of her when she's in the backyard, wonder how much they will shit themselves when they see Heidi . . . .

Gone Fishing

Dad took me down to Grayson Lake today for some fishing.  Grayson lake is GORGEOUS, we caught lots of fish.  

Such a pretty lake.  I will have to go back!  

Revisiting an old friend

I REALLY didn't miss this, and Tessa was surpervising

Stopped to see Heidi over at Nelson's.  Her legs are clean, does that count?   She came and dropped her head into my arms.  I think she misses me about as much as I miss seeing her.

 You can sorta see her teaser back there.  She's sniffing noses and squealing so hopefully that's her coming into cycle. I kinda can't wait for her to get home but I also need the time to get the fence repaired.  So fence working coming up!