May I introduce you...

I don't even know how to begin to explain how this happened .... but this is "Hummer" and he will be coming home to Big Table hopefully this weekend... needless to say I think I've found the perfect horse for me and hopefully me for him... more soon just wanted to get the photos up.... he's been around the block and assured me that he would take 100% good care of me ... so the deal in signed...

(he's a haflinger horse )

springtime is not for sissys

It's been crazy busy around here hence the lack of blogging...

Brian got the entire left hillside mowed no more scotch broom !!! the goats did about 3 acres and Brian finished the remaining 4 or so with the tractor!! you can actually see the tractor vs the goats where it's clear of brush but green that the pasture that thanks to the goats is nitrogen rich and very green ... so while the tractor isn't as "green" in how it leaves the cleared area sometimes you just have to get the job DONE!! and as brian says finished is perfect... so we are one tiny step closer to starting planning for planting!! yippie!



I got the garden in and am very excited to have things in the ground and growing and even flowering... and had a really great gift from my dad of a small tiller that works along side of the tractor's 5 foot tiller to get those small spaces and hopefully will also help me with year-round maintenance... thanks dad!!! ...

















our fruit trees have set fruit and I can wait for another year of apples and pears!! and now cherries too!! thanks to the new trees I planted last year...






Brian has also done it again and the pigs are happily out on pasture full time thanks to the latest mobile farm house ... the "pig-stream"... or maybe the "winnapigo" anhoo the pigs have a new mobile house and are now being rotationally grazed and this lot of pigs are just great and so fun and playful I really like them... : ) I think I will get this breed again .. excited to see how they finish and taste : )






the hitch for pulling the pig palace around with the gator






.... speaking of taste the new broilers are growing so fast it's like the are growing in front of my eyes! crazy...




Chief is home again after a few months of training he's defiantly more composed... but he is still for sale... I've been very picky with who buys him and it's made a little slow in that area... but I'm still hopfull we will find him the perfect home till then he's back out munching away...

















some bounty from a trip to Ca yummie!! : )

Kateri and Silas visit BTF

My sister Kateri came out this past Thursday with her son Silas... there was some relaxin' but don't let this first picture fool you my sister went kind of wild and cleaned my whole freggin' house and even scrubbed the porch... she did every last dish and even made bread whew makes me tired just typing it... well while she was doing all that work Silas and I had a blast we hung out with animals and did chores.. it was a wonderful visit and sadly I don't' have photos of our Saturday which was a draft horse plowing competition... thanks kateri and silas for warming up our home... and we can't wait till you come back...



Silas and red - they really bonded it was neat to see


Mother and son the cleaning team



Silas restin' after the big hill climb


Kateri cleaning


Kateri baking


takin a walk


Silas really wanted to take one of these babies home but they need to grow up in OR





On a farm note Brian's been doing a ton of tractor work yippie! getting scotch broom mowed and the back field disced! been a nice week...

how can I resist!! 45 new little baby chickens : )

more picts from Kim

Here are a few fun picts from Kim and Scott's visit that Kim sent this morning... thanks Kim...




That's a martini : ) in case my smile didn't give it away...

chief's video

This is Chiefs "for sale" video keep you fingers crossed for the perfect home for this big guy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY6ukzNOJY0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEdUgN5gdT4

Kim and Scott' s visit

Well spring is really sprung around here. Kim and Scott have been here now since Thursday and the time has flown : ( ... Kim has managed to name 4 animals on the farm very aptly I must say ... first one was Andy the cat - ... he's kind of "rag doll" like hence the name : ) .... I will say he's really grown on us...


Kim also named the three little pigs : ) Peter, Paul and Marcy : )



The seeds are started for the summer garden... and where added to by kim as well : )



Scott and Brian took that willow down finally that brian had started last summer with Will... it was a good day...















The chickens are happily laying about 3 dozen a day for us and the green grass makes every body happy : )












There was a pretty fun dinner too that turned into 10 good friends and good times and ended in drunken pyrotechnics AGAIN... this is becoming a tradition I'm not sure our neighbors appreciate...




we went to the Draft horse and equipment auction in sisters saw Duane there and had had a great lunch and good times... we saw some great old equipment and beautiful horses...







Some "Scott moments" : )