No, not for good, but for the day!

This morning we headed to Roanoke, WV to the Stonewall Jackson Resort for the Almost Heaven BBQ Bash!!! Words just are not enough, sooooo………😱

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Deep fried Oreo’s, shark bites, fried shrimp and pulled pork fries! The smokey smell that filled the air from all of that meat was simply amazing! The park itself was beautiful and combining that beauty with that smokey, sweet smell, why yes, “Almost Heaven” ❤ If you didn’t have an appetite before you arrived, I assure you that quickly changed!

It has been a beautiful day! ❤

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Now that we are back to the farm, there’s a few things needing done. Here we were trying to get the chute in to place! Behind the chute is also another tractor trying to assist in conquering this mud pit! June and we still have this much mud in front of our barns which also happens to lead to our roads to get upon the hill! We have some drastic changes we are planning to make things much easier and efficient! Hopefully by Fall!!!

Bentley made a flying leap & ended up taking a very unanticipated “swim” in the mud/poo! Thank God he loves to play in the creek!

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A little about us. We are from WV, born and raised. We have a small, yet growing hobby farm. We enjoy the attempt at being self sufficient, self sustaining (to a degree, though we would like to take it further!) and the simple things in life. We do not try and have zero desire to live the lifestyle of “keeping up with the Jonses”.  I stay at home, “housewife”, “farmwife”, whatever you prefer. I take care of our home, help with all outside jobs, whatever may be going on and try to save us money and stretch our $1 into $2. I believe some think it is easy and all luxury, while I am blessed and grateful for it, I assure you it’s not. He works as a fabricator full time, works full time here on our little farm, as well as also helping many others out as neesed. We are simple in our needs, our wants and we are happy with our life here on our little farm. It may not be close to perfect, but it sure is close enough for us ❤

All the critters are taken care of! It’s the same ritualistic routine each morning! I wake up and head out shortly after, they know to expect me each morning!

The chicks are getting feathers and growing quickly! We had been turning the heat lamp on only at night and off during the day. Last night we left it off for the 1st time. I think they are big enough to go without it now, unless the night temperature should take a drastic drop and well in WV, the weather does its own weird thing! So it’s not off the table as a possibility!

A dozen future egg layers! Light Brahma, Sapphire Gems & Sapphire Olive Eggers! They will be beautiful and there’s nothing like fresh eggs!

Our rabbits are just pets. Piper & Annie. We’ve bred rabbits before and I absolutely love having baby bunnies but we got out of it. I missed having rabbits so these 2 have made their home here, just as pets. They have a cute little bunny cottage to call home and we are adding a small fenced addition for some extra room for them to enjoy! (That is lime under their cottage, don’t be alarmed. Cuts down on flies and smell!)

The cows! We had our very 1st calf on February 14th, 2019. A bull calf named Romeo of course! Our 2nd calf followed on April 16th! Another bull calf, Moonpie! We got to witness the entire event, it was exciting! Moonpie was banded and will become our freezer beef.

Some of the cows below. Romeo, Moonpie, Daisey Mae & Moe.

We planned to prepare this coming Fall & Winter to get goats next Spring, we want a dairy aspect but that’s up in the air. I am not sure I want to be chasing Houdini goats all over lol! Yet I’m not sure I want my 1st milking experience to be with a massive cow, I have no experience so we better pray she does lol!

Other than that, we have several cats and 2 dogs, Bentley & Yeti.

We grow a garden. This year we should be overrun by tomatoes! Everything was put out late because of the rain here everyday or at least every other. However, all the plants are growing well and looking good! So ready for some fresh garden plunder! This year, instead of canning, we will be purchasing a commercial grade dehydrator and dehydrating our bounty for the most part anyways. Green beans and tomatoes excluded. This will be our first try doing so but it seems to be quite successful from what we’ve read and seen. So wish us luck!

My youngest child, 23, came out for a bit before heading out of town for the weekend. We fished in the creek for a bit & caught some small rock bass and a sun fish. ❤ It was nice! Praying they have a safe and fun trip. We too will be leaving town for tomorrow! So excited! More to follow on that adventure after. ❤

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Soooo, my sister just dropped this off to me and I just had to share it!!! My Mom ❤, who is 81, does such beautiful work! I fell in love with this blanket she was doing and now it is mine! A beautiful keepsake! ❤🚜🐮🐔🐰

And that’s all for your chicken poo daily! Have a good night! 🌙

Our cats, as I mentioned in the post earlier, simply vicious I tell you! In the past weeks they have had, moles, a baby bunny, numerous black birds, a ring neck snake, a bull frog, a gray squirrel and now this makes the 2nd red squirrel! Sophie was laying all proud of it by the porch when we got home. 😒 I am quite nervous once the chickens are grown and free ranging! While some of the cats have been around previous chickens we’ve had, some have not! The cats are fed every morning and evening, while I know it’s a cat’s nature to hunt, I think the hunting has increased because they are teaching their kittens! All I know is that the chickens are off limits!

So after a very frustrating time getting this page going today, I finally got some productive stuff accomplished around our home! The typical, laundry, dinner, cleaning, plus I got the yard mowed! Makes me feel so much better after spending so much time on this today!

I am sitting on the porch swing and Daisey Mae and her calf, Moonpie have just come down off the hill, so going to give them some grain! (Well all the cows came down except for Coal. They are always happy to see the grain bucket ❤)

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Here is your chicken poo daily…..

Let me start by saying this! Setting up a blog from a phone is no fun, at all!

With that being said, it has taken up the past few hours! 😱 Yeah, I know right! But here we are, eager and ready to get started except I don’t have much else to tell you about today now!

I took care of all the critters this morning, all are doing well! The chicks are getting closer to being turned out to the enclosure under their coop! Just a little more growing to do to make sure they can’t escape and become kitty food….our cats are vicious! 1 of the cows came down and graced me with her presence briefly! The bunnies were excited for their morning ritual carrot! Bentley is outside, refusing yet again to come back in! I don’t blame him, I want to go out too. Yeti is snuggled up by my leg, he’s been a great help getting this page going lol! Moral support! As at 1 point, I was completely ready to just throw my phone! The cats and babies are good. Cute, running about playing. I had dessert for lunch! I was frustrated and busy with this!

I need to go be productive now, I suppose! But the page is here, it’s ready, I’m ready and we’ll see what happens from here. ❤

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Chicken Poop On The Porch blog, take 1.

I am completely new at this actual blog thing, I am working simply from my phone and that seems difficult to me lol. So this is just a test run! Short, sweet, trial and error! 😉