Sid and Carbon napping


Sid and Carbon had a little nap yesterday. Button is at the other end of the couch.

Bee Block Making


Sid decided he would make me a new bee block for the garden, yesterday.


Drilling the holes where the bees will lay their larvae.


All done. It's beautiful.


Mounting it on the garden fence.


Vacancies available. - Thanks Baby!!!

Kevin & Aimee's Wedding


Pre-wedding photo of Sid and me.


Aimee being walked down the aisle by her mom. Her sister and aunt are in the background.
The happy couple. Mr. & Mrs. Cole.

Harley Farms

We went on a tour at Harley Dairy Goat Farm today. While we were waiting for the tour to start I found this sign that spoke about the The Goats. If you enlarge it you will be able to read it.

This is the first baby goat we came across. She was very sweet and wanted to suckle on Sid's knuckle.

We got to go out into the fields and hang with the goats. They come right over to you wanting to be pet just like a dog.

These are American Alpine goats. They come in many different colorings. Some have long hair all over, others, like this gal, has a patch of long hair along her spine and hind quarters.

Sid wishing he had a tractor.

They have 3 Llamas to protect the goats. They will spit in a Mountain Lion's eyes and kick it until it leaves.

Another pretty goat. Number 26 to be exact. Most of the goats don't have names.

The farm has about 220 milking does. They love to climb. Here is a pair on top of the chicken tractor.

Everyone got a shot at milking a goat. It was really easy. Sid was a pro his first try.

Tenmile property


This was our favorite property. It is 45 acres and about 10 of those are pretty flat pastures. This is some of the pasture area near the barn.

This is looking from the the right side of the house, down towards the barn.


There are several different fenced off areas. We think they had sheep. The fence is in really good shape.


This is the back side of the house and shop looking from the road.


Sid and Carbon enjoying the pastures. That's a big tongue, Buddy.

30 minute workout

Sid and I built our first compost pile this evening. I made one over the weekend by myself, but Sid needed to learn how to do build them. We had lots of dried leaves from the fall and plenty of vetch, oats and various weeds to complete a 3'x3'x3' pile. It should heat up fast and give us compost in a couple of months. We will probably build 2 or 3 more later this week or over the weekend. It took us about 30 mins and it was a good workout.


Some of the fodder for the compost pile. CA poppies, flowering radishes and cereal rye.

Button. Stay...

Good girl!