We’re down in Southern IL this weekend, visiting with family and deer hunting. It’s an annual event and we always have a great time.

It’s chilly this morning with a decent wind out of the south. I’ll keep a bit of a journal of what I see.

Friday Morning

6:30 small 4-point buck from the [...]

The weather this week has been beautiful.  Chilly at night but not cold and warm during the day without being hot.  I’ve had the house airing out from the long winter and yesterday the last of the snow melted.  The grass in the field is starting to spring up again and I’ve spotted tulips and [...]

We’ve brought in six chicks!  There are five different breeds there’s a blue polish, splash cochin, blue silkie, easteregger, blue d uccle, and a blue porcelen d uccle. All are very cute and the polish is slightly crazy but there all friendly and setteled in. And theres a plan on bringing in a puppy somtime after the [...]

Nola was hit by a car Friday March 11 2011. She died almost instantly. And my favorite rooster R.J lost almost all of his toes to frost bite and somehow snapped his left leg so there’s only a stump but if he’s standing still it just looks like he’s got his leg tucked up.

By Mag

All of a sudden spring is here! I have no idea how it came so fast but this week the grass greened up and we have many baby animals. Pheobe is back building her nest on our front porch light instead of the nice safe nesting box that is there for her. The pool is [...]

We’ve had a nice amount of snow lately.  Our neighbor Joel has been nice enough to come over and help Jay clean up the driveway.  They used his tractor and stacked the snow up in one pile  and actually moved the pile further back in the grass.  When spring comes we won’t get as flooded [...]

Hope you enjoy this video of Caelynn our youngest.

The weather has been a real treat these last few months. Usually by this time it’s been down in the 20′s. We had a spell in October for a few days that was chilly then it just warmed up.    Jay and Maggie put the electric heaters back on the water buckets yesterday because of the [...]

We’ve had two cats lately that have wondered in our yard.  No body seems to own them around us.  Maggie our animal lover is determined to catch these animals and has been setting live traps to make sure we don’t have lots of kittens around.  The latest cat seems to be trap smart.  So far [...]