We had a good week this week. Unfortunately, we didn’t get any garden work done.

Well, Hannah planted some flower bulbs, but that’s all. No veggies. But this coming week, for sure.

We spent the week chasing baby goats. sigh…….they are eating all the plants and trees in the yard. D has tried fixing the fence. but they keep getting out…….somewhere……

We have to fix it soon, or we won’t have any plants or trees left!

Another one of our cats had kittens on Friday. She had 5 kittens. So now we have 9 kittens. The kids think they are keeping them all. Nope, sorry kids, not happening.

I don’t even have any pictures to post this week. We have been so busy with other stuff. Like Bible Drill. That’s why this post is late, we had a State Bible Drill that took all day today.

So I’ll be back next Saturday with pictures, and the new Saturday on the Farm Carnival!

Please join me next Saturday for the Saturday on the Farm Carnival!

Coming Soon…Saturday, May 1st…


Saturday on the Farm Carnival…


All you have to do to participate is write a post on your blog about your farm, your homestead, your farmette, your tomato plant on your deck..


Come back on Saturday, May 1st, and enter your link in the carnival.


We’ll have lots of fun visiting each others farms.


Hope to see you Saturday!

It was a gorgeous week here. It seems like everything is leafing, budding or blooming. Except the vegetable garden. sigh….Hopefully I will be strong enough to start working out there soon. The kids worked in the garden on Monday and got a section ready to plant. The spots for lettuce, spinach and peas are ready. Now I just have to get them planted.

Our apple trees are blooming.

We have a few spears of asparagus ready to eat. yummo…

Unfortunately, we are being visiting by bag worms. ugh…

D will be going out to kill them. I leave all such things to him.

New Next Week

I will be starting a Saturday on the Farm carnival!

Write a post about your homestead, farm, farmette, raised bed gardens, container gardens or even your one tomato plant in a pot on your deck.

It can be a week in review type post, a picture post, or what is happening on Saturday On Your Farm

It will be fun to visit each others farms or gardens.

Hope to see you next week!

This week started out sad. One of our baby girl goats died. She looked fine, then a couple of hours later she was dead. We have no idea what caused her death.

The grass has greened up nicely here. The yard even needs to be mowed! The goats are liking all the green grass.

Despite all the green grass in their field, the baby goats keep getting out.

They are very bad little goats, though. They keep eating all my plants! Look what they did to the iris!

They have done the same thing to a few other plants also, including the day lilies. Now they are starting on the roses. So frustrating!

D is doing lots of yard work today and he’s going to fix the fence. The goats were going through the fence, but now that they are too big for that, they are going under. D has been watching where they are getting out at, and he’s going to anchor the bottom of the fence. Hopefully, they won’t find any new places to get out at!

D trimmed the butterfly bush today. It had gotten huge. Abby helped with some of the trimming and other work.

Looks like cleaning the siding will have to be on the spring to do list, also!

We have flowers blooming still. Here are two that just opened in the past couple of days. So pretty!

While your here, be sure to enter this weeks giveaway! An Absence So Great by Jane Kirkpatrick. Go Here to Enter!

We’ve been enjoying the flowers that a still blooming, with more blooming every day. The larger Daffodils are opening now. Here’s a larger one, with smaller ones in the background.

We are so happy the chickens are laying regular again. We are enjoy eating eggs again. Store bought eggs are just not the same. This little rooster saw me point the camera at him, so he had to crow. Not sure what he meant by it, but I like the picture.

The weather has been warmer this week. I am enjoying hanging the laundry on the line. I actually enjoy hanging laundry on the line in the winter, too. For some reason, it makes me smile to see steam rising off the laundry. This made me smile the other day:

We need to get moving on the vegetable gardens this week. I think D wants to have someone come in and plow. So we need to find out about that. I really should have had the tomatoes started indoors already. I need to do that this week. And it’s time to plant peas, and lettuce.

Lots of work to do this week!

**There’s still plenty of time to enter this weeks Giveaway to win a copy of Here Burns My Candle by Liz Curtis Higgs!

The week got off to a good start, when I sold 2 rabbits on Sunday. A male and a female, we only have one male left now, out of the babies. Here’s a pic of the parents. It was really odd, the baby girls looked like the mom, and all the baby boys looked like the dad.

Lily the Mom….

Beast the Dad…

It looks like Sugar, the cat, is expecting kittens. We have no idea when. We’ll just have to keep an eye on her. We like to make sure the cats have their kittens inside the house so we can handle them. We don’t need a bunch of wild kittens running around.

A & Z have been enjoying the warm weather, playing outside a lot. The built themselves a fort of some kind. Including putting up a flag. The chickens seem to be enjoying it, too.

Of, course, I had to take pictures of the flowers. lol There are a lot more open this week.

This is the whole “front bulb garden”, that’s what we call it. Because it’s in the front, and it’s all bulbs. lol Very original, I know. lol That’s a butterfly house hanging on the old satellite post. We have yet to see any butterflies actually living in it. Maybe this year.

We had the first cookout of the year. Hot dogs over the fire. It was so nice to be able to do it again. We usually have a fire every Friday night. It’s so relaxing. My kids aren’t the only ones who wear snow boots and shorts this time of year. Right?!

After we ate, we went to look at the flowers in the front yard. H got a surprise when she looked down and saw a snake on the rocks about 6 inches in front of her! Much screaming ensued. I might have been doing some of it. Ok, I did….it was me! I was standing right next to H when she started screaming and pointing.

But never fear, our hero came and killed the snake for us.

Then held it up for a picture with it. That C took, because H and I left and went in the house!

And today is the First Day of Spring! Yeah…we are so ready for spring here!