Spring has sprung

It's mid may, and I just ate soup and grilled cheese sandwich to warm me up!!! It's all of 48 degrees outside now and inside as well since we have turned the boiler off for the year.  Hard to believe that just a few days ago it was pushing 90 degrees.    Thankfully it is suppose to warm up again by the end of the week.  Funny how once your a farmer the weather becomes all important, you need to know weather or not to add straw to the animals beds and if you need to water the veggies and tree's or if Mother Nature will do it for you.  This past 9 months of living the farm life has taught us this lesson as well as many others and I am sure we will continue to learn as we go.

Lot's have been going on the last week or so.  Mother's day weekend the hubbs and I rented a power post hole digger and dug a hundred holes, 5 rows of 20, it was tough going there were Lot's of rocks and we had to drag it from hole to hole which took both of us because it was rather heavy, Hubbs had to do the lifting though cause the auger was almost as tall as me.  The sun was shinning bright and it was very warm we drank Lot's of water and even with the sunscreen I ended up with sunburn on my arms and face and of course my neck LOL.  (that's where the term redneck comes from in case you didn't know, because farmers are our in the sun in early spring everything is covered but their neck and it always gets sunburned).   While the hubbs and I were digging holes, my son was busy mowing the grass and picking up sticks.  The weekend wasn't all work though we did get some fun in we had breakfast at Ihop on Saturday and spent the evening with family and friends at my cousin's house.  On Thursday hubbs and I drove out to the other side of the state to pick up the 100 apple tree's, the drive took us about 2 and 1/2 hours each direction.  That same evening the tree's were in the ground, we had my cousin and her family over for dinner and the guys planted the tree's and us gals cooked the dinner while watching the kiddo's and dog's play.  After dinner the kids rode a small dirt bike around and the big boy's played on the 4-wheeler and shot targets. 

The turkeys are growing and appear to be healthy and are getting a little bold.  The brown one has discovered that she can fly just high enough to perch on the top of the fence of their pen or fly up to sit on the top of their hutch.  We have been trying to let them out everyday or at least every couple days to free range in the yard... they do so love their play time.  The walk around pecking at everything they think might be tasty my shoe laces, pants, the bricks and the dog.  The dog is very good with them surprisingly enough he just sniffs them and then will sit beside me and watch them. 

the chicks are also doing well, hanging out in their brooder they are getting their feathers and are attempting to fly.  We did have to pull two out and put them in their own box because they were getting pecked pretty good with bloody spots they are doing well now and since the bloody spots seem to have healed up some we might try putting them back in with the rest.  We ordered 1 rooster and then had ordered some straight run chickens so far we can see that we have the one rooster we ordered and at least one other I think that the free chick they sent is a male mainly cause it's bigger then the others it is still a waiting game right now to see who is male and female from the strait run.  Hubbs and his friend have been working on the coop and it's looking good.  This weekend we will be trying to finish it all up, since the chicks will be ready to move outside pretty soon.

The funniest story of the week though is:
I was heading back home after taking the post hole digger back to the rental site, I stopped for gas before I hit home and discovered fluid and smoke coming from the front end <sigh>  had to leave the truck there at the gas station and walk back home it was a beautiful day though so that wasn't so bad... no what was bad that has I walked past the little creek I stepped in a dead squirrel.<EWWWWWWW>  and I am sure the people who drove by will forever tell the story of the women who was dancing and shaking her foot around by the creek in a strange crazy dance.  LOL.

well folk's that's all for now, keep checking back for more pictures and updates and perhaps even an addition to the farm.