Parsley, oh he of the expressive tongue...

Flapflapflap...



Meh.



PFTTTHTT





mlehmlehmleh



*kissy*



He isn't the only one, Brego and Nigel get in on it as well.

Enjoy it while you can...

Enjoy the warm summery sun while you can, ponies, summer is over and soon... well, let's not talk about that, ok?

HA! I caught someone making a deposit on the poo pile. Thanks for making my job easier, buddy.



Uh oh. They noticed me. Yikes. here they come.



Really? That close? Is that entirely necessary?



You too? Seriously?



How about I run backwards and see if I can get far enough to get a decent picture?

Nice.



At least SOMEONE isn't gettin' all up in my grill...



Um. My shoes are not edible. But I guess the little horsie tooth marks add to their attractiveness.



Oh, yeah, when he realizes I have no food I get this view.



But he eventually comes back.



The partners in crime, spreading their own brand of trouble where ever they go. Mary makes Brego look so tall. Hard to believe he is only around 13.2hh, lol.

For Jen, House/barns...

Check out this:

Barns with apartments above them.

It's ok to drool.

As I get older the idea of a set of stairs to get up to my house sounds less and less appealing, but I thought having a barn built like a walk out basement with a house on top at ground level on one end would be cool. lol.

The thought of being able to go out and feed in the morning without having to actually go outside delights me.

I see skies of blue...

But not in a place where i SHOULD be seeing them.

First, this is my run in area of my little horsie/critter barn.



I had to move my hay out of the barn partially because of lack of room but mostly because of.... this:



*sigh*

That isn't the only one. Three of the six skylights are like that, including the ones over the run in area.



Which means that if it is really rainy the horses have virtually no place to get out of the rain. Which would concern me more if they ever even TRIED to get out of the rain, which they don't.

However, those have GOT to be patched before the weather turns bad, because freezing rain is a whole other beast.

We have these to patch the roof with:



They have done a phenomenal job all summer keeping the grass in that spot from growing. Which is a noble endeavor considering that our lawn mower is less than perfectly functional.

I wish i were physically capable of doing this stuff myself. I'm gonna lose my mind having to wait on other people to do it.

On an unrelated note... what the heck?



I warily pick it up, and try to figure out just what the heck I am looking at, laying there, walked in to the dirt...




It's a knit glove of some sort, turned inside out. And it was in the horse paddock. NO clue where it came from. First i find spoons, now this? Weird.

Edit to add: after writing this up and scheduling it to post the topic came up and it seems that this project is tentatively scheduled for weekend after next. *crossing fingers*

Gone to seed...

So, I am attempting to save some seeds from some heirloom tomatoes my neighbor, Sandi (Sandy? I can never remember which it is) gave me. Saving tomato seeds is kinda gross. The seeds have a protective coating on them, a slim, if you will. This prevents them from sprouting until after a slight fermentation process that breaks down the slime. So to properly save tomato seeds you need to let them sorta ferment a bit first.

I will save you the gory details in THAT process, but i will say... stinky. Yuck.

So after three days of stirring and other gross disgusting stuff... I have seeds!!



They are well on their way to being dry enough to store until next spring. According to Sandi she gave me Brandywine, Black Beauty and some random heirloom mix. How do you like my fancy "hardwood flooring"? *grin*

My whole body aches from two days working hides, and I over used my hands so now they hurt and are weak and shaky. Sometimes I forget they are faulty. Then something reminds me. *sigh* But the hides are pretty much dry and ready to store until I am ready to tan them. We'll see then if i did this right or if I should have kept them wet and soaking in salt longer. I'm also working on some small pieces from the lower leg with dew claws attached to make a bag like one I saw a picture of in a museum a while back. THOSE are hard to get the membrane and stuff scraped off of.

This is our pool.



Say goodbye pool. *goodbye pool!!*

The metal sides will be turned into fancy goat shelter, and the rest? *shrug* who knows. More junk to pile up somewhere i guess.

Can you tell our lawn mower is broken? The goats do not do as tidy a job, hehe.

Goats and Venison...

A couple of days ago I took the goats out for some free time in the yard. They all immediately did this:



at one point ALL 4 had at least 2 feet up there, lol. When they discovered that there was no food there they quickly lost interest.

"Um, hello? Something is missing here!"



NOMNOMNOM earning their keep.



A shot with the Casa Del Violet in the background. *grin*



Funny goats.

"Oh, hai!!"





It is the early season for antlerless deer in Michigan. The guys got 2 deer day before yesterday. yesterday we processed them and got them into the freezer. Today I spent the morning salting their hides to tan later. I have another day or two of work on them before they are properly salted. Then this afternoon we had family dinner with my inlaws and ate some of the tenderloins and backstraps. OH MY GOSH. Melt in your MOUTH delicious. Grilled, with salad and fries. fantastic. The deer were small, so i was surprised at how much meat we got from them. It's a good start to having full freezers for the winter.