Good Morning! <=2017

[Ontario Chick]

Yup, I am with Nina, water sitting in places I have never seen it before and the creek is a bit of a lake now, so is the yard for that matter
Barn yard, lily pond enlarged,

creek usually about 20' across, dried out almost completely last summer
Viking ship, floating by, and old log that seems to travel back and forth between two roadways

[ross]

Found on Facebook . Is this the new way to hunt them now there's no course . Lol
Drive safe .

[Dominion Link]

The rain has stopped here in southern Durham Region, but there is no sign of the sun so I don't know if this is just a break or if it'll be clearing up here. Homes on the lake in Bowmanville have been flooded for days now and the Fire Chief called into the plant to see if we had any sand bags, as they were running low. Lots of big messes to clean up....... On a positive note, we're pretty well past the threat of spring grass fire season.

[WLLady]

Ross my truck almost looked like that last week. Hen flew out of the ditch and i could see her toenails...didnt hit her somehow. Love the walking the pet fish. I could do that in the front part of my field!!

Paula, i am so sorry to hear...sad when they go. But our hearts are a little bigger with them inside.

We had ours up to the vets. One of the cats depositted a tapeworm so got some good drugs to treat everyone since panacur didnt do it. And dogs all utd on vaccines and heartworm and and and....pocket is a bit lighter sigh. I should have been a vet.

Some firewood brought in ( thanks DH!) And a nice fire on the go. Sourdough bread getting ready for the oven. Made it through my second half time week at work pretty well. Have to pick asparagus before the frost tomorrow night and get the heater set up in the greenhouse. Hopefully this is the last of this silliness. The thames river is huge and angry...whole trees going down.

Hope everyone is having a decent weekend.

[ross]

Rain causing problems all over . One of the owners of Arva Flour Mills was on pond dam or on creek behind mill on his jet ski don't ask me why & drowned . Water very turmoiled . Sad .... RIP

[Bayvistafarm]

Good day! The day was spent doing chores, and puttering. Decided the white geraniums needed pricking out.... the red ones were done a while ago... so did that. Did more peppers too. Took me a few hours.

The guys and some are back watching some very exciting goings on at the back of the farm. The main line CN tracks are back there... and we are kind of smack dab in the middle of Weirs Lane... and Middletown road. Just a hair past middletown the side hill of the embankment gave way, huge land slide, and the south rail is compromised. Since yesterday at 3AM dump trucks have been trucking big stones/rock to Weirs lane... trucks 8 long waiting.. and some parked at the church on Weirs before the hill/train bridge. BIG quarry trucks with BIG floaty tires driving down the tracks. I saw enough of that when OUR side was washing out, and they fixed the culvert and bank two years ago. Course, Gary loves watching trains... and they have to go slow...and I imagine some won't be running... and some will be late. They are not using the South rail and will be diverted to the north rail likely where they can.

I went to the barn once to check things. We ended up having 3 new calves yesterday, and I'm excited about this one. Shes a girl.. and has a sister going to calve this year. Likely later on this summer. AND a sister in the feedlot... going to be a cow... so she will likely join them. The mom is nothing at all to look at. Shes called the scrawny hereford, and has always been thin. Shes a hard working cow, milks really well.... and has had a calf every year. Shes small.... but mighty.

AND when I was out checking things, found two new babies. One freshly still wet... and trying to suck. Mama is a good calm second calver... so I got the baby latched on, and left them alone. They were both eating their afterbirth after Jess and I went down to look at everyone a few minutes later, lol. Yummy.

I put some eggs into lockdown this morning. A few of them were weird ones... looked like a mess in them, but things moving around? AND an air sac on the side... as well as the bottom a little bit... and at the top. All of those that looked NOT right, were just thrown out... and the total black eggs were kept. I haven't opened any eggs that haven't hatched before, but I suspect those would have been eggs like the ones I threw out today. A week ago when I candled... most of the good eggs were almost black... but those looked like they were 10 days in... and the embryo was bobbing up and down. Today, it was a mish mash of pieces of blood strings, veins, and almost looked like pieces of chicks (blackness) weirdly placed.

Its been a tiring weekend, with 5 new calves... and fiddling with plants. Ready for supper, but theres no one around to make me any... so cereal it is, lol.



I will post some pictures over in gardening. Things are filling up out there!!

[kenya]

Oh I love the calf pictures soooo cute!!!

[Killerbunny]

Well OC, so much for the sweet, aristocratic Wyandottes! I went up to the pens to check the free rangers and did a double take. Miss Kibbles had apparently been lured out of the pen by my Brahma cross rooster - gasp! At least she said it was all his fault LOL. Who knew she could fly that well.

[Ontario Chick]

Well OC, so much for the sweet, aristocratic Wyandottes! I went up to the pens to check the free rangers and did a double take. Miss Kibbles had apparently been lured out of the pen by my Brahma cross rooster - gasp! At least she said it was all his fault LOL. Who knew she could fly that well.

In a manner of lady like behavior once an irresistible male is present all bets are off!!!
You should see the girls making google eyes at Mack the man, he is in the brooder waiting to heal from the last amorous encounter and if the girls could get to him, I swear they would climb in to the cage, couple actually refused a treat because they were too busy gazing at him.
Although they might just be plotting how to get to his now Blue Comb?

[kenya]

Hussies!!!