Friday, September 21, 2012

Summer Fair

 
This summer has been one of the most beautiful hot summers we have had in many years. Some highlights of of summer are the summer fair, canning, hanging out with family, and some wonderful fishing trips. Everything I had planned came crashing down, when i had to have emergency surgury on my back, but Im feeling better now & cant wait for what fall & winter have in store! Here are some of our local country fair pics......the kids had a blast!!
 
 
 
 










 






 
It was a real highlight of the summer!
xox
 
 

Friday, June 22, 2012

A Month in Photos


Wow what a whirlwind month! So much has happened that I couldn't even comprehend where to start!
For those of you following Peanuts journey....there is lots of good news! Thanks to Northern Lights wildlife shelter & Rehab, Peanut has been feeling so much better,growing, and totally rid of his pneumonia.  Once an animal that is considered a "nuisance" animal has been rescued in BC , the shelter is not permitted to release him back into the wild. He must go somewhere else like a protected reserve or something. Well it turns out our little P.G. Beaver is going to become a star!! He will be going to the San Diego Zoo Wildlife center in California to hand with the other Canadian Beaver "Justine" Beaver...lol and hopefully breed together! No chance of a Icy cold winters for this sweetie Pie!! The special Caretaker that will be caring fir him will be personally flying up to pick him up as he is too little for cargo.


My daughter is in junior Olympians in archery and we are at the end of the season and its almost time to wrap it up. The final tournament is this Sunday.


This is how I feel lately...Ive been on crutches with a ripped hamstring, and I cant weed, or do anything fun in my yard & garden. Its horrible, and cant wait for the day it heals, its been weeks..and no progress. I cant drive or do anything with the kids. Praying for healing soon, so I can get with the program!! I love the sun so I'm desperately praying I don't miss out on summer!


This is the garden a month or 2 ago...and this is it now:



Lush and green and beautiful....except the weeds...I will get to them someday...



Ive heard all of the pros and cons about tire gardening, but I'm going for it anyways!

 Even the chickens & turkeys are growing!


Rocky's getting huge!! Hes sure telling the turkeys who's boss around here! Romeo is second in command I think, its hard to tell the pecking order yet with close to 40 birds..

Romeo & Juliet are loving the heat and sun...Hes got the cutest floppy pea comb.

Remember biscuit the "Buff" broad breasted Buff turkey? Hes massive for 3 months!


This little Sussex rooster is 5 weeks old...boy they are tiny compared to the turkeys!!



Here is a 5 week old White Broad Breasted Turkey. Hes 5 times the size of the chickens!

Part of the crew nibbling...


Taking in the new blooms & Blossoms....




Keeping busy crafting up projects for my girlfriends sons wedding. We are the decorating crew! Should be a blast ...I'm dying to be better so we can get the lodge all clean,beautiful and ready for the new bride & groom by august 4th.


So happy we got to hit the beach before I blew out my leg! We enjoyed a wonderful sunny day at a local beach... I don't know who those people are in the background..my son likes to wander and adopt other families and kids, its kinda fun. Sometimes I wish he wasn't so Overly friendly and maybe a little shy..lol

Have a wonderful June!
xoxo

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Our Baby Beaver & A Crazy Week!





I think the last couple of weeks could go down as the craziest in a long time for us! What a busy escapade it was! During our hikes down to the ravine we came across a bear eating all these adorable baby beavers, and we were able to save the last baby.

Meet our latest addition(temporarily) peanut! Hes about a week old.


It appears EVERYONE was getting attached to him. We called a variety of shelters but couldn't get any help until after the long weekend. So in the meantime there was some serious prepping to do!
We needed to set him up a play space out side & inside as baby beavers known as "kits" require alot of handling,grooming, and nursing for the first few months.



The poor darling.... in the middle of this my latest birds had all arrived & we were trying to make room for 22 new heritage turkeys, and 13 Sussex hens and 3 Sussex roosters in brooders. They all arrived safe & sound in this cute little shipping box.


These are some crazy curious turkeys!


The sweetest girls inspecting their new home, its sure better than the tiny exploding box of poultry!




We went back to the ravine to see if we could find another baby beaver that might have escaped and walked up and down for quite some time but were out of luck.




We found the baby tracks but no more babies in sight.


Worked on a homemade trellis for my chicken coop, it turned out pretty cute.



On Tuesday after the long weekend someone finally returned our called back about Peanut
and we had to send him away to a wonderful wild animal shelter a few hours away called
 "Northern Lights animal shelter". They were so great to take him in ,as its a huge commitment because they rehab them for 3 years before being released back into nature.

I know this is a fuzzy picture but I had to share it ,as Peanuts finally feeding before we had to send him away. We knew it was best but we had cared for him for  4 days and woke to do feedings every 3 hours, it was quite a job. But totally worth it :)
Hope you had a great weekend!

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