PARADE & WORK!

 Before gravel

Before gravel
This would fill up with water for days before going down.

After gravel

Tim is in the middle of working and the dog decides to lay down in front of the skid loader. I think he wished he had a horn to honk at her.

Now that it gonna be better to walk on and drive on.

This gravel is going fast for a small area.

Getting another load.

Now that looks nice. It sure beats walking through mud and ruts.

It's funny how they sit on the rim to drink.

The ameraucana chicks are getting bigger. They are almost ready to be with the flock.

I am just worried that the small kittens might go after them.

HOMECOMING PARADE!

Our 4-H group participates with our towns Homecoming Parade.

This a huge event in our town.

We have been to other parades in our town but this was the biggest crowd we have seen so far.

The girls and I had a lot of fun. It was good to see lots of people out for this event.

Our 4-H group.

When Tim gets home he starts right in to work. First getting things layed out to get the post in for the hen house.

See these kittens?

They are not helping us get the strings straight.

Marking the holes for Tim to use the auger to dig for the post to go in.

They are all marked and ready.

But, we hear the dinner horn blow. Thanks girls for making dinner!

CARAMEL APPLES!

Hey! It's Skylar! Decided to change things up and write a post! Haha 

Putting the dehydrated apples into a jar, but first!...

Yanno you have to try them! 

Shout-out to Gram Cracker for letting us borrow her dehydrator!

 Thank you!

Now onto the Caramel Apples! 

You will need these ingredients^^

Lay the caramel slice over the apple

Tuck it under

And now, the funnest part...

Stab the sticks in!!

I don't think she got a picture of us eating them but they were really sticky! And good! 

Mom moved the little chicks we hatched outside 

(finally!) and now they are staying in the garage.

They're getting big though!

~Skylar

**** This is the girls FIRST time making caramel apples.

CHANGING THINGS, MOVING THINGS & CLEANING UP!

What is this, you ask????

It's our new chicken feed. 

It's 1000 pounds of feed. Kaitlin and I went to town to pick it up. It takes 24 hours before it is ready.

 Look at this poor truck. It takes a lot of abuse for sure.

  I moved the truck out this morning and one of our hens wasn't happy it was gone. She lays her egg in the bed of the truck. I have tried and tried moving her. She is determined that is where her eggs will be. So, later that day I had to find her new place.

 We couldn't wait, we had to open it up and see what this mix looks like. 

The hens like it!

 This week Tim brought home the skid loader on the trailer. We will be using it for several projects we are doing this week and weekend.

 This skid loader is going move things for us tonight.

 Not Kaitlin!

Not the dog either!

 See all this stuff?

Rabbit cage, boards and fencing. It's gotta go!

What happened to the sun? Time changed and looks like several of our projects we will be doing in the dark.

 This spot works to put it all. It's out of the way for now until we need it.

 Kaitlin getting another ride up high!

 Now to move Greyson our rabbit.

 We put it by the Old Hen House for now. Plans are to make him a new cage. But, that will have to wait for now.

Last night (Tuesday) Tim brought home the skid loader on the trailer. Tonight (Wednesday), he brought home a deep freezer and a auger.

This is the auger. 

Ok this picture is a little dark.

Now you can see its a auger.

 This is where Greyson's cage is. 

Makes a difference in the light to see where stuff is.

 This is why we moved all the stuff last night. Tim ordered a load of gravel. The mulch that gets delivered is on the other side of the truck. The stuff that was there wasn't in the way of that truck. But for this dump truck it was.

Looks like we will be busy moving this.

Another reason the skid loader is here.

This area is one of the places the gravel is going. It is finally drying out from rain days ago.

We layed mulch down in one area because it was so muddy.