animals by Sam

Ivy and her son, I love how he got the crossed heads! cute

Leo, our black and white percheron

Gabe, the Ram

I have not been taking enough photos lately, I cannot find the camera very often! I have a few budding photographers around here. (And a Ram who needs to go on a diet, obviously.)

F.H. photos

I love Fair Haven, I will put more of these on later.

Honey bees!

Here we are, starting with Samuels honey bees. We were outside all day and didn't even get lunch until 3:30! When the bees got here I was so scared, I had to take the box from the UPS driver and I could see all the bees inside and they were buzzing and I have always been afraid of bees! This is Samuels thing, right? WHY was he handing them to me? Anyway, i took the bees and held them up to the sun and they were so beautiful! With the light shining thru them, their abdomens were glowing as if they were made of honey, instead of the honey makers. And, I fell in love with them, I helped as much as I could with setting up, but you can see from the photos, I didn't have to be far away, the bees were so gentle. Joe kept bees for 12 years and he said he has never seen such gentle honey bees. Susie, you are totally right about the Italian bees! We only ended up with them because they were the only ones we could still find for sale, maybe that was Gods plan all along. Samuel really needed this right now, and I can see his smile, even under the bee veil!

These eggs

Once upon a time, on a little farm, on a big hill, where a family takes care of sheep, these eggs were found.

They were found by a dog, who sniffed them out, and that was the only way they could be found, because as you can tell, in the next photo, there is no way to see them, even if you are standing right next to them.

These magically sniffed out Killdeer eggs were visited by all in the land, and carefully observed day after day, until the Killdeer momma became trusting of the children and no longer flies away to scold from a tree, but just hops a short way away in the grass and soaks up with pride the admiring comments of the family that cares for the sheep, on the big hill, on the little farm, where the eggs were found.

NOT the end

Happy Springtime!

We are having so much fun! Happy Springtime.

CAtch Up Aunt Donna

She is already pondering the bursting of the balloons, by the look on her face.

In doolittle creek.

Easter egg hunt, not gonna let go of that bag!

Love having ponies in the yard, magical day.

Doesn't it look like they are dancing together?

Shakespeare and Sunlight

I was going to post the next little person, with the whats happening now

for Aunt Donna, but after I got the whole post done, the ATMOSPHERE ATE IT!!!!!

I am mad, it is late and so I leave that for another day!

Right now

Okay. So right now he is up to, basketball, carving wooden spoons, new camo tents came in the mail-very exciting, paid for himself. His first year to go to snow camp, only one small sprained pinkie. Sleeps on camo sheets, under a camo duvet, sometimes he sleeps in the barn, especially when there are new lambs. Iceskating is very, very big, and he dotes on his littlest sis, who is getting spoileder by the millisecond. Is that a real measurement?

Romeo, oh Romeo

My biggest, bestest Valentines ever...

Chloe happenings

I am sorry, but I never get tired of the baby-in-sunglasses photos! I am going to do a set of two of the childrens recent photos whenever I post. Sound good, Aunt Donna? I am starting with the youngest, but NOT going in order. so, email or call with your guess of who is next...

new puppy

I am trying to decide what to share, while I am trying to get all my computer stuff done at night, on Dean's computer, since mine is down. Then it hits me, as Dean AND the new puppy each wake each other simultaniously, snoring, the new puppy! Isn't he cute? Romeo, for Valentines day.

Birds

We were watching out the window today and saw a bird that seemed really sick at the feeder. I told everyone that we would need to report it on our bird watching chart to Cornell Orinthology lab. We are taking part in the Feeder Watch Program. So then a few minutes later, the same bird came back. Our pilates instructor who was here for our lesson said, "I want to see what a sick bird looks like, what is different?" So she looked out the wondow and at the exact moment our barn cat, Cookie, jumped up out of nowhere and snatched the sick bird in one motion off the feeder, and landed on the ground with him halfway eaten! We are still wondering how we report this to Cornell. A bird WAS sick, but isn't anymore...

St.Lucia Day

We have been behind in our posts lately, but I guess I will try to catch you up on things. Here we have our St. Lucia for this year (December 2009), She is beautiful,

but not very happy about the candles. We have always been very careful, putting a wet cloth on the girls head, and all. But if she looks less than relaxes it is because she is!!! She brought a wonderful breakfast to us and candles and hot tea. It was so lovely.