4-H EXPO has officially begun as of today and will end on Saturday after the auction where the kids sell their animals or in Serenity’s case, an item she has sewn.  She was raising a lamb if you remember, but sadly that ended abruptly. Wesley spent some time grooming his prize pig.  This prize pig is not called Wilbur because it’s a girl.  Her name is Butterfly. Awww… That’s exactly what comes to my mind when I look at her – a butterfly.  Can’t you see the resemblance? 🙂   He’s been brushing her the last few days with a brush because they get this scaly dandruff stuff that doesna look so good in the show…

What a great visit we had this weekend with Zachary, family and friends. Zach’s surviving very well the bachelor life.  He’s living in our travel trailer on his own and makes himself supper almost every single night. No, it’s not Campbell’s Soup or Ramen Noodles, but real food!  He’s actually using the Internet to find recipes online.  He gets it all going in the Crock Pot and off to work he goes.  I tasted some of his leftovers and it was good stuff. His go-to spot on the internet is Recipes.com. This is the TEAM that he works with (his 2 cousins on the left, then his boss and then Zach…

After having 2 people in one day wondering why I’m not posting (family counts, right?), I decided I should give you a little update. The next day after the loss of our new rabbits, Audrey was looking out the breakfast window when she spotted what looked like our new bunny.  The long and short of the story is that the black bunny was found and retrieved.  That we were able to catch it and the location where we caught it was just the Lord because that little fellow could have hid in a multitude of places. I was so happy to have it back, even if it was the male…

Unfortunately, I have bad news to report. My adorable bunnies are no longer. Our excellent blood thirsty dog ripped the chicken wire where the rabbits were housed and had himself a nice breakfast.  That dog can be so sneaky!  We know it was him because we have caught him in the act of getting one of our chickens.  He grabbed it and ran into a big field near our house but far enough from us that we couldn’t get him.  We really scolded him and he hasn’t touched one since but if he can be sneaky and get something (like our goat kids) he will.  He just showed up at our house…

Saturday, I felt like I was operating a granola factory.  I made 26 pounds of granola.  Whew!  Using only one oven, it took me most of the day.  Next time I think I might try 2 ovens and see if I can expedite things. This is my Pecan Cranberry Granola… Saturday, Russell brought me home these 2 little bunnies I found on Craigslist.  I’m wanting to use their manure as fertilizer for my garden.  If I get it planted.  For some reason, the whole garden thingy is intimidating me.  Zachary’s not here to do it (he’s working and living about 5 hours from home) so it’s just little ol’ me…