Funny Farm

Funny Farm

The farm has grown in the last week! My hubby went to a taxidermy trade show in Grand Rapids last week and he bought a puppy!!! His name is Artie and he is a beautiful Golden Lab. We already have a black lab, so we are hoping for puppies in a couple of years! We also got our chickens and turkeys for the year. So if you walked into my dining room/schoolroom/animal nursery this is what you find! Puppy kennel on one side and boxes of birds on the other! LOL Needless to say we aren't doing much "dining" in here right now!!

Angora Hats

I am so excited! Check out the pictures below. We raise angora rabbits and hope to increase their numbers this spring/summer for the purpose of spinning their fiber. I got a spinning wheel for Christmas last year and with only having 6 rabbits and not a ton of time right now I haven't spun a ton of yarn. This weekend I was able to take my daughters knitting loom (thank you Bekah :))and make a hat out of 100% angora yarn. The color of the yarn is the color of three of our bunnies mixed together. Angora is warmer than wool and being in Michigan right now, we need all the warmth we can get. The rabbit is my sons rabbit, Matthiais, the second one is my tools, and the third one is my second oldest, Cameron who was the reciepient of the gift!(He hasn't taken it off since last night!!) Now if I could just get my slideshow to work on my sidebar I will be all set.

Angora hats

I have been Tagged

I've been tagged by Dalyn at http://www.muckbootsnaprons.blogspot.com/


Here are the rules:



1. Link to the person that tagged you.



2. Post the rules on your blog.



3. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.



4. Tag five random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.



5. Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.



Here are the randomnon-important facts about me: *U*

1. My husband and I have all the Star Trek Next Generation and Deep Space Nine seasons on dvd (yes there are 7 seasons of each) and almost every night we crawl into bed and watch an episode or two. We have been through Next Gen twice

2. I love bubble gum, I have since I was a kid and will probably die at 90 with a piece of gum in my mouth.

3. I have both Frontier House and Pioneer Quest on video and have watched them many(many, many) times over. (I am secretly a prarie girl:)

4. I have NEVER flown in an airplane and may never.

5. We have chickens and angora rabbits and I love (most days) going out and doing the chores, yes, even cleaning the coop.

6. I have learned how to spin angora fur(wool) on my spinning wheel and am completly obsessed. (NO, we don't butcher the rabbits for their fur:)

I am new at this blog stuff so here are 4 others that I read quite often

http://faithacrefarm.blogspot.com/


http://homespunliving.blogspot.com/

http://thesparrowsnest.typepad.com/

www.cracklingpinefarm.bravenet.com

Organic and Natural foods

I watched the yahoo video on the beef recall in California and it horrified me. It is so sad to watch and very scary. Dalyn at muckbootsnaprons.blogspot.com has a really good post on this with information on how to find good foods in your area. We are in the process right now of joining a cow share program in our area. We are fortunate enough to have one about 15 minutes away from our house (and it is about 2 minutes from grandmas and grandpas house). I think we should all step back and really look at the things that will really make a difference in the long run.

Motherhood

I am going out on a limb here and be a little bold in this post. I am sadden by many things around me right now but the one that touches my heart most is the selfishness in mothers. We watch very little t.v. outside of videos and in all honesty I don't even keep up with the news anymore. I know I should be on top of current events and things happening in the world but I don't. Take this morning for example; I got up early to work on my new spinning wheel (thank you Hubby), I decided to turn on t.v. while I worked, and catch the news on one of the morning shows. In the 1/2 hour to 45 minutes that I watched guess what was the biggest news in our nation? Britney Spears!!!! Our main focus these days are the celebrities and what they have done. I was amazed at how much of the morning news revolved around her situation. The other story that was big news this morning was the 6 year old girl that with the help of her mom wrote an essay to win tickets to a Hannah Montana show and she lied that her father had be killed in Iraq. He hadn't and they took the tickets away when this was found out.(remember her MOM helped with the essay) What are we teaching our children? A couple of nights ago we finished a movie and a "nanny" show happened to be on. I admit, I couldn't turn it off. This was a "homeschool" family with 5 children and I use that term loosely. The 2 oldest girls were 17 and around 14 and then 3 young boys under 6. Mom and dad both worked guess who babysat? You guessed it, the girls. The episode showed them and what one of their days was like, I was heartbroken for these girls. They were enrolled in a on-line school, but besides that they were the boys "mom" for a majority of the day (Mom didn't get home until almost 7 that night). If I understood it right the girls contacted the show for help, not the parents. When mom was home she seemed to have very little desire to do what she needed to do. Why? I don't understand the complete lack of wanting the best for your children, even just a little bit. I know I don't know the whole situation in any of these families. But if they are willing to let everyone in the world in on it, then I can have an opinion of how wrong this is.