Wednesday, July 25, 2012

'What a great day, or how we finally had some nice weather.

7.25.12

Today was great, weather-wise. One of our Working Students came over to help with morning chores, and to have a riding lesson that she has earned. She and her pal, BoJangles got to go for a ride around the farm. Sam said she realizes why people want to ride for Hours.... BoJangles didn't think that a wise move at all.

RC and Daisy made out just fine being chickens in the hen house overnight, instead of living in the barn. Tonight however, they did NOT want to go there again, so Dani and I had to capture them.
The 15 little peepies are all doing Great .

This evening Sadie & I went for our walk down the road a ways. She got to meet BICYCLES !!!  For the most part , she was scared of them, but that waggy tail was going like mad. Took some neat shots of the sun reflecting on "our creek' too.  Enjoy !


RC & Daisy

                              Evie                        
Alli & Scarlet




Paddy


Buffalo Creek - Summer


Birds on a wire



Tuesday, July 24, 2012

More Chickens ?????

Yes, more chickens and they are so small, three will fit in the palm of one's hand. Day old chicks- 15 of them and supposed to be all hens. There are some different breeds of brown egg layers, and as they mature , I'm sure we'll be able to figure out the breeds !

'Rooster Cogburn' and the love of his life, Daisy, have been relegated to the hen house.... as of this evening. They were both scared being young chickens in with older hens, but it won't be long until they're all pals.
( I HOPE !!!!)  He's gotten to be quite stunning as has Daisy. Full tail feathers on his lavender grey butt, and a big red comb- Daisy thinks him the 'looker'... until he starts doing the " Are you horny "  dance.  She then just walks away from him. Its tough being a young rooster.

We have chicks, as I mentioned above. The deal was just to good to ignore. Order 15 random breeds of brown egg laying chicks and the shipping was cheap ( no pun intended). They got here this morning and I brought them home from the Post Office around 12:30 or so. They were all happy to see there was breakfast AND something to drink in their little pen. For now, they'll live in a corner of one of the empty stalls in the barn, with a red heat lamp in a corner if they need it. Food, water, heat, and places to scratch around in - and one has happy chickens. Now to pray they ALL make it. I get so attached to the animals around here that when one dies, it breaks my heart.

Below are a few photos of them from this afternoon, plus some of the farm on a summer evening. I wish I could add the sound of crickets singing, and the wind blowing thorough the Hemlocks at the barn... but I'd have to figure out how to add a video and THAT is not understood yet.





This little gal was sleeping....








Wow !

It seems our blog is on the list of 50 top farm blogs !!  You have to go check it out
http://www.seametrics.com/blog/top-farm-blogs/

I tried to add their HTML code but it's ''broken" so go to the site above to see all the super cool bloggers about farms !

We here at WoodFinn are very proud and happy to be a part of the 50 Top Farm Blogs - thanks Mr Sipe !







Sunday, July 22, 2012

A neat link !

this gal has it going on.... a ton of homemade foods, salad dressings and more !

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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Meetttttt ...................


7/21/2012

"Padraig O'Finnegan".... who is our newest addition to our farm.....Paddy to his friends ! A little lost kitten in the big city of Harrisburg, a friend of mine rescued him and he arrived here this morning. He is as cute as can be and oh so friendly to boot.  We're hoping he learns the 'ropes' here and lives a long, healthy life.



His first meal here...

Exploring the rug on the tackroom floor....

He was scared of my camera...

But soon saw it was a friendly human behind it...



Then, it was the back of our chair...


                                                    
                                                       To the top of our chicken feed can...
                                                                             


Malibu watching the hose run water into the outside tub...


Whoooooooooopsie- something scared Misty !

The Girls...



Some Queen Anne's Lace in the garden
I love these wildflowers 

We had some rain over the past 2 days, and All of the flowers & grasses enjoyed it

Buffalo Mtn in the clouds- my view from the barn...





Saturday, July 7, 2012

HOTTTTTT !!!!

7.7.12

Oh my gawd, it is SO Hot outside !  105 here at almost 3 PM.  These past two weeks Mother Nature has been fooling around with her thermostat here in s.central Pennsylvania. It has been over 90 degrees for quite a few days in a row and today is the worst. High heat, HIGH humidity and everyone outside is dealing with this alright. We, humans, however, are inside where the AC has been working overtime for at least a week.

It is so hot , even the flies aren't bugging the horses much... our grass is 'crunchy' and is drying up, thanks to incredible heat and not enough rain.  Tomorrow, Sunday- we're due to have this massive heatwave start breaking up . And it cannot happen fast enough. I went to the barn to check on horses a few minutes ago, and there were small sparrows getting a much needed drink from the chicken waterer I have sitting outside of the tack room door. I know it's warm by now but still it's liquid.  It has been re-filled with cooler water....

Prayers for those who are in the midst of the forest fires out west, and those in the Texas areas that are once Again in a severe drought.....

Come on September !!!


Monday, July 2, 2012

No New Boarders ( 7.3.12)


It seems that the gal who 'was' going to bring her two geldings here to board has changed her mind.  < sigh>  
So now, we have two stalls available for someone else's horses.  

If anyone reading knows someone local to our area, who is looking for a great place to board their horse or horses,
please ask them to contact me ?




Summertime !

Welcome to Summer in south central Pennsylvania where the weather is sometimes rainy, stormy, humid, terribly hot or like today : Lovely.
 We have a nice breeze blowing to help cool animals and humans off , bright, hot sunshine, but not TO terribly stiffling humidity. Its what I'd call a "nice" early July day .
 ( and I Hate summertime weather)


Our flowers are blooming, the pastures are grassy and not TO many flys around.
 (well, most horse folks have WAY to many around their farm) are not to horrid- YET.

Hosta blooms below:



A 'weed' but this one sees herself as a true Queen....
This Queen Anne's Lace is blooming in my rock garden !


BoJangles, Abby and Evie enjoying our grass

Our chickens have really be enjoying this nice weather as well. Widget was singing last evening and I snapped this photo of her....

 This is R.C.
  AKA-  Rooster Cogburn...

"The Girls" below... Silverwulf, HotWheels,Sonnet and Widget in the back.


So, welcome July !  
Please treat our farm to cool breezes, enough rain to keep things growing and good summer memories made.