Saturday, February 3, 2018

Animals all fed.  Hubby out plowing, we got a few inches last night.  Bird feeders are filled. Sun is shining.  Water cup full of ice water.  Then to head to my daughter's to watch my grandson while she is outside with the farrier getting her horses (6) feet done. Two are border's horses.
He is just the cutest and happiest little boy.  Such a hard job to do...watching him.  :-)
Oops, typical me, I just got side tracked taking photos of the birds at the feeders for about 30 minutes.  Hey, at least I got some nice pictures! 

 Dark Eyed Junco with Blue Jay in the back ground.
 Blue Jay
 Chickadee

I enjoy watching birds at the feeders.  Some of my favorites I've had here are the Cardinal and the Eastern Blue Bird.  The humming birds are great fun to watch!

Before I went to my daughter's this morning I had to grab some sand out of my husband's sand shed so they could put sand down in their horses' paddocks where needed.  It's pretty icy over there. 
We just filled some 5 gallon pails to haul over there.
I did get one photo of the farrier working on one of the horses.  My daughter lives at the end of a pond so the wind whips through there all the time.  The thermometer was reading 20*, not including the wind chill.
Excuse the picture, I took it through the screen. 
I took a picture of Keila, the old lady pup at my daughter's.  She's getting old and has seizures now and then.  She's actually the only one of her siblings still alive.  They all had health issues and she's got to be pushing 10 years old now. 
I wrapped her up in her daddy's jacket.  She loves to snuggle up.

When I returned home I stopped at the barn to clean Summer's stall and check on the baby goats. 
This is what I see when I pull into the barn yard. 

She's standing on the hay bales looking out the window.  Mamma, Lou Lou. 

Still haven't gotten good pictures of the babies again.  I'll have to bring my regular camera down instead of my cell. 

The new horse is here on the property now.  I always find it so stressful when new horses come on the farm.  They take a good 2 weeks to adjust and get all the fighting with each other out of their system. 
She is a rescue my daughter picked up.  The guy didn't want her any more.  Was going to do "away with" her if no one took her.  She needs eye surgery to remove an eye due to cancer.  We will let her settle in a little bit before she has surgery.
Stella is a Thoroughbred, about 16.2 Hands and around 13 years old. 


Summer, with the blanket on, with her new buddy, Stella.  The pony, Sonny, did not get along with her.  Sonny is happy being with just the goats.  Good news though!  Sonny is leaving early tomorrow morning to her new home!  Just when I thought I was going to be down to one horse....another shows up.  LOL

Some time last night my oldest rooster died.  He had to be close to 8 years old.  He was one of the oldest chickens I have.  The younger ones were starting to pick on him.  They must have known his time was close.  Oh my goodness!  I just realized my other rooster, Gilligan is missing!  I haven't seen him in a while.  Gilligan was a little bantam rooster.  He was everyone's favorite.  Actually, Gilligan may have been older than the other rooster that died.  That's the problem with having so many birds you can't keep track of well.

Gee, tomorrow I get to watch my grandson again while my daughter and son-in-law deliver Sonny to her new home.   And a bonus, my daughter is going to feed all the horses and goats when she arrives early morning! 



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