They grow up so fast

I apologize for the weird spacing on this - I'm too tired (will tell the story tomorrow or soon) and Blogger has that moves stuff around issue I don't want to fight. SORRY!

Day one, hour one saga of the chicks of Buhlaland. Riding home in a box - looking so fluffy and chickie - Date March 27 - all at least 48 hours old.

Just three days later getting feathers on our wings and wanting to explore outside this weird nest.

Yes now they are getting feathers and chickatude - look at that face and tell me she isn't thinking she'd like to peck my camera!

Then the big day comes when they can go out in the big wide world (at least the part of it enclosed by wire and a cover over the entire run). Is this where the term chicken describing a coward comes from? All eight of them huddled at the top of the ramp to freedom for quite a long time.

Then one chicken boldly goes where no chicken has gone before - she is on the ground! They readily go up and down the ramp now - their water and feeder is in their coop -

This picture is the harassment our sweet soon to be egg laying chickens must endure on a daily basis - two mouthy terriers trying to get IN that fence.

It is fun having chickens on Buhlaland !

Goat Jenga

Newsflash not hot flash - Monday morning - bale collapsed yesterday around 5 pm - goats immediately climbed on top of Jenga win and I didn' t see who the poor soul was taking the final jenga bite. I did go out and make sure no babies were under the mound when it collapsed. No goats were injured in the making of this blog post. Thankeweverymuch!

Round hay bale in our front pasture has taken on a sculptured appearance. When I went out to take pictures I realized - the goats are playing Jenga! You see our Norman (favorite Doe) scoping out the bale planning her next munch.

Violet is a shy goat but she dove right in to take out a big bite from very low in the bale.

Then bossy Flip and cantankerous Crybaby started moving in to try to control the game.

As of this morning - the bale still stands. Leaning a bit but standing ready for the next

round of goat Jenga.


Here on Buhlaland - doesn't take much to amuse us and that is good!

Rose-y outlook

Too much gloom on the 'net and news. Too much "reality" instead of dreaming - it is rose-y here on Buhlaland.

Best advice for today is --- when your world has an excess of manure - put it on some plants and bingo - comin' up roses!

Hey where'd that cute dog come from? Oh that's Conan the Destroyer - a slimming down, guarding the garden Rat Terrorist.

He wanted me to remind you - -

"2 Corinthians 4:8-10 (New Living Translation)
8 We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. 9 We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed. 10 Through suffering, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies."

Smart dog isn't he?

Sometimes it is good to be doing nearly nothing

Sometimes goats are worth having around just for entertainment value -today I was trying to get pictures of birds (something I seem incapable of accomplishing). Had camera ready when Iona, daughter of Violet, decided she needed an all around the tree trunk body rub.






She is normally skittish around people but was quite intent on her tree experience . Iona never looked directly at me or the camera.

You could almost hear her say "ahhhhhh" - what's next?!

I had a little time and a camera on my hands today on Buhlaland - and Iona had a good body rub.