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  • May 16, 2012

    Hawks Love Young Chicks

    When I returned from buying feed yesterday morning, the guineas were  shrieking up a storm. Imagine a highly strung young matron throwing her apron over her face and running screaming in circles, then you have a reasonable description of the guineas when they see a hawk. The guineas do not yell at cars or stray…

  • May 15, 2012

    Calling all Marmite Hoarders!

    Lambs are natural escape artists. They have a tendency to leak through fences. Minty was winding herself around my ankles like a cat so getting her in the shot was impossible. These two were inspecting the trucks. Soon Mama started to make a racket and they darted back through the fence like good little lambs.…

  • May 14, 2012

    My Mother called it Crying Tired

    That tired. So tired that the yawn splits your face and you forget to cover your mouth with your paw.  So tired that you have to lie down to eat and you don’t care who sees.  So tired that you don’t even talk to your friends anymore, you just all lay about under a tree…

  • May 13, 2012

    No Laughing at the Beer Can Chicken!

    Now, I know this sounds most unusual and to tell the truth I have never tried this before but it had to be done. I decided to make a beer can chicken. I had the beer and for once I was willing to share because Guiness in a can is NOTHING like guiness from a…

  • May 12, 2012

    Kupa The Peacock has a Wee Lie Down

    On a car. He has a thing about old cars.  So when a great weariness descends upon him… .. he looks for a car with a nice flat boot (trunk) to lie upon.  The tire was nicely placed to rest his wee headie and serve as a wind break. I am training the pigs to…

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