Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Just Because

Look at that beautiful face....




A Watched Pot




A watched pot never boils.


Apparently a watched sheep never lambs. I watched a sheep for 45 minutes last night waiting for her to have her lamb. I gave up at 9:30 and came inside.


This morning I went to see the new lamb. And, here it is soundly sleeping...


And, to top things off, I just missed another one being born as I was coming to see the new lamb from last night. I'm always amazed that in a matter of minutes, they are standing and walking around.





In the last 12 hours, we've had 4 sheep lamb. So cute.

Monday, May 28, 2007

One Month

Happy ONE MONTH birthday to my little nephews!





Aren't they the sweetest.
I know most of you who read my blog, also read the Riker Clan. So, I will just wish my babies a happy one month! Auntie Brenda loves you both!

Friday, May 25, 2007

The Bunch



Just thought I'd share with you a picture of the infamous escapees...and their leader (all infamous groups/herds have a leader don't they?!?).




Bangs and Sirens

Last night I was nicely sleeping, when I was awoken by loud sirens and Tom jumping out of bed. I asked him what that was. He said he heard some bangs, like firecrackers or gun shots...a few in a row. Then he says, I'm gonna go see what it is.

So, like I can go back to sleep. I get out of bed, my heart pounding. Tom is downstairs with the front door open, standing outside (in his underwear). The neighbours inside light comes on. There are lights flashing all through the swamp area just at the end of our property. We hear a few more bangs. Now I ask Tom to maybe come inside and watch from the window. It might be safer???

We watch out the livingroom window for awhile (also making sure all the doors and windows are locked). Tom gets out the binoculars to see if he can see things better. There is a firetruck and a few police cars. There is also quite a bit of smoke. Tom wonders if some teenagers were driving around throwing fireworks out their windows.

Things seem to be calming down, so I go to bed and watch TV for awhile. Tom comes up in a few minutes, looking out all the windows as he does. I turn the TV off and try to sleep as I try to image what is happening down there. 1:00 appears on my clock. I kinda drift off to sleep. 2:00 appears on my clock. Tom gets up to look out the window. I kinda drift off to sleep. 3:00 appears on my clock and now Faith is crying. Tom heats her bottle (apparently he's not sleeping good either). I feed her a bottle. Tom looks out the windows to see what's happening. All the lights are finished flashing. Everything must be taken care of. Morning is just a few short hours away.

6:10 Haden and Garrett are up and asking to go downstairs. Sure, I tell them.
Tom gets up for work. I drift off to sleep until 6:30.

After Tom leaves for work, I call him on his cell and ask if he could see anything as he drove down the road. He says it looks like someone burned a car. All that's left is a carborator (or some piece of a car) and a large rectangular burned area. We figure, someone probably stole a car and torched it....maybe. I guess we'll never know.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Cow Exercise

I found a great new way to burn calories without having to go to the gym. All I have to do is chase cows around. Simple enough. Well, not exactly me choice of exercise but it was my exercise last night. I will try and explain without getting you lost (or myself).

Last night (after kids are in bed-8:30ish), Tom asked me to help him move some calves (good size bigger calves - 1/2 the size of a full cow) from inside the barn to outside in the pasture. All I had to do was stand in the sheep pasture, so the calves would go to the other pasture. Simple enough. And I did my job wonderfully.

Then, Tom comes outside and asks if he closed the gate on the other side of the pasture (yes, the pasture the calves were in). He peeks around the corner and says "NO". I turn around and run through the sheep pasture, climbing and jump over the tall green gate, run around to the front of the barn to head off the calves. Well, I'm too late they're heading for the field. I run around the back of the shed to stop them from going into the newly planted bean field.

They are standing at the edge of the field gazing into the horizon. I slowly start walking toward them. Even before I take one step, they are off running in full speed right through the middle of the field heading for the bush. All I could do was stand there in awe as I watch this little herd of 10 calves making a break for it. I run to see where Tom is and notice one calf has decided to hang around. Tom jumps in his truck and heads to the field. I stick around and make sure this last one doesn't leave.

Tom heads down the field after these calves. Luckily, these calves have pnemonia and can't run all the way to the bush. They stop 1/2 way to the bush, turn around and start trotting back toward the barn (in a nice neat row). Tom drives beside them and blocks them from going any wrong way. I leave the one lone calf in the pasture and block the way between the barn and the house. The calves are now walking, foaming at the mouth, coughing, and nicely walking into the pasture. We close the gate, lock it, and I tell Tom, "I really wish I had my camera with me." It would have been a great picture of Tom in his truck with calves trotting in a herd beside him in the middle of the field!

Adventures on the farm!

pictures

There would be pictures on my blog if it didn't take an hour to post them. I am going to try making my files smaller and then uploading them and see if that makes a difference. Stay tuned for pictures oh sweet sisters of mine! :)

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Gone Digital

I am so excited about the new camera I bought today. Finally, a digital camera. I guess I've been living in caveman times, because everyone I know has a digital camera.
Now, we do too. :)
So, you can fully expect to see lots of pictures soon...once I figure out how to use it.

Monday, May 14, 2007

Starting Out

I guess I caved. I've decided to start our own 'Snyders blog'. Well, I created a 'Snyders blog'. We'll see how much time I have to keep it going. I'll keep you posted. :)