River Wedding

My nephew got married last Saturday to a very sweet girl (my new niece) :) at the river where our family have a lot of happy memories. Here are a few of the photos although my I-Phone does not do them justice it was so beautiful, wish my Dad could have seen it he could have even worn his overalls!

May 19,2012

My nephews on either side of their Grandma (my Mom) photo left. They would not smile for me the brats! :)

The groom & groomsmen arriving in the john boats on the right

The Groom as he stepped off the boat on the left......had to get a close up of the casual shoes he wore :)

The ring bearer and flower girl on the left

The Bride (on right) arriving on her boat with her two sweet boys that are giving her away.

Walking the bride down the isle

The bride and groom having a song sang to them from long time friends

Saying vows and exchanging rings

Bride and Groom giving a Rose to the Grooms Mom on left and Grooms Grandma on the Right. (My Mom and Sister). The Bride gave Roses to her parents also but regrettably I could not get a good picture.

The kiss.....I thought the little ring bearer on the right was just too cute!

Dancing down the isle was just the right touch (music playing, I'm all right), my nephew has always done things just a little different :)  we all love them both so much.

The Bride will have her hands full!

 The Bride and Groom walking down to their boat

The Groom pushing the boat off

The bride and groom headed down river to meet their wedding party for pictures

The wedding party headed down river to meet the Bride and Groom

Bride and Groom getting off the bus after taking pictures

The Bride and grooms table on left and on the right the gift table, the bird cage held their cards.

Their friends and the Brides family did a really great job with the food, tent and decorations!

Cutting the cake.....and what would a wedding cake be without a little bit on the face

First dance as a couple

Groom on the left dancing with his Mom (my sister).                       Bride dancing with her Dad on right

The Groom walking his Grandma up for a dance (notice the walker) Mom can't walk very well without it....but we found out she can still dance without it though! My nephew said Mom was leading him! She always loved to dance and had danced on stage starting at the age of three until she turned eight. She said she has not had so much fun dancing in a very long time. (it didn't have anything to do with dancing with one of her spoilt grandsons!) wink wink!

We left shortly after the party started, hubby worked 11 hours and had to drive 4 hours to get there and he was tired also had to work next day and Mom needed to get home. I heard the party lasted until 2am and they had a lot of fun and ended by camping out at the river.

Lowe's made my day!

I had sooo much fun at the wedding Saturday so I thought today would be rather uneventful and very relaxing. The only plans I made for the day were to tiller the upper garden and get the wedding pictures uploaded, well so much for being wanting to be kinda lazy....

Gibby went into labor very early this morning.....

She had a cute (but very tiny) boy, her first kid. Almost immediately I noticed her bag on one side had started turning purple and was hard as a rock, she was also very warm to the touch. I called the vet and explained this to him and he said she had mastitis, so off to the vet I went to get medicine The medicine the vet gave me has to be administered every 12 hours (inside her bag) for 48 hours and a shot today and another shot 48 hours later.

I had to take the baby away from Gibby so she can heal (hopefully Gibby has no permanent damage), so I now have a bottle baby to raise. After my morning I should have quit while I was somewhat ahead but I decided to go ahead and till the upper garden (instead of going back to bed and getting up on the right side) :)

After tilling for about an hour my tiller broke it just quit going forward and the tines quit moving! I could go backwards and the tines would move but no forward. Great with the day I had so far I thought the nearest  repair dealership would be hours from here. I called my father-in-law and he helped me load it (by now its 4:30) and off to Lowe's I went! I went in with receipt in hand expecting a lot of talk and no help either. I was pleasantly surprised I have never been treated so great! The service desk helped me wright away and called someone out to unload it from my truck, he brought it in on the cart and left it in front of the service desk.

I handed her my receipt and while she was typing it into the computer the same gentlemen that unloaded my tiller loaded me a brand new one back on and I got a new receipt!  I was in and out of the store in less than 15 minutes!! They did not even start the tiller apparently since it was under 3 months old (I only had it 6 weeks) they took me at my word. They covered it at 100 percent replacement no questions asked! The way most of my day went though I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth! I covered the tiller (that is still on the truck) and I am waiting until tomorrow to unload it! (Just to be safe) :D



































So I ended my day by taking a nice walk around the farm and did a bit of picture taking.:)

When I returned to the house while everyone else had roast with veggies, I made myself everyone a cast iron skillet full of fried potatoes with onions. Potatoes have always been a comfort food (must be the Irish in me)! I would say the day started out hurry hurry and the day has ended very well!!  :)

Chickens and Tator (my dog)

I had such a long week and was sooo glad to be setting on the couch just relaxing and watching TV last night just waiting for the chickens to go to roost (so I could shut them up) then take a nice hot shower. I heard a small noise outside but I was so sore (being lazy) I just did not want to get up then the noise got louder, I ran outside to see feathers flying everywhere! I don't know why she did it but Tator (my little Yorkie) was chasing the chickens and pulling out feathers. You wold have though it was a pack of dogs not one little 5 pound one! I caught her put her back in the house so now the chickens were everywhere except where they should be (in their house) and scared to death! I got out some feed and tried to talk some of them into the hen house, that only worked with about 7, the rest I had to find (some were in the trees barn, in my grand daughters playhouse).....I finally got them all into the hen house and got them calmed down. I think with the work I have got accomplished this week and now climbing trees to get chickens, I can actually say without a doubt that the hot shower I took last night was the best most relaxing one I have had in a long time!  :) When I let the chickens out this morning most look like Purty (above) missing tail feathers..

some a little worse (Penny is missing feathers on her back) but at least they are all going to be okay. They are going about today like nothing happened, (may have forgotten already) like penny, still hiding her eggs even though I put her and the others up for a week in the hen house. On the up side though her and only two others are laying anywhere and everywhere the rest are laying where they should be, so their weeks stay in the hen house did work for most! :)

Catch up

I have not been blogging very much for the last couple of weeks so I thought I would catch up on a few things I have been doing. I have been outside working all week, the first garden I started last month is coming along fine below is a picture of it. In this garden we have corn, 20 tomatoes, 18 potatoes, 22 peppers, green, yellow, red, 22 zucchini, green beans, onions, 6 cantaloupe, 6 cucumbers and peas sorry I could not get all of the garden in the picture.

I cannot believe I didn't notice the goats are in the yard! OK I'm back
 I just took this picture a half hour ago at least I have the garden
fenced but some other plants are in the open! I put the goats back in
their area, they couldn't have been in the yard long not much was
eaten that I noticed. Lucky me I took a few pictures for
 the blog before I came in! :)

I just finished this afternoon driving the fence posts and putting up the fence around the new garden and also added 4 loads of compost. This took me four days to get accomplished, it would have taken only a day if hubby were here but I got it done Yah!. I planted the berry's at the back of the garden this morning.

Blueberry

Raspberry

Blackberry

We have a lot of blackberries around the farm but I thought it would be nice to have one without thorns! We also have raspberries around here but thought it would be nice to also have one in our back yard.

This garden is 48x38 feet and sets a little ways behind
the house. I noticed in this picture the posts look kinda
funny but I wanted to fence in the garden with what
was on hand, they are a little on the tall side. :)

Now at least both our gardens are protected from our Houdini's (goats) I cant understand it but when I turn my back they will somehow (like an hour ago!) find a tiny spot in the fence and run with it! That is why I took the time to add the fences around each garden so the goats can not get in there (I hope). Next I need to do something about our grape vines I don't want the goats to bother them either.

I wore gloves the whole time and I still ended up with blisters and a few cuts on both hands, but not as bad as I thought it would be. I cant wait for hubby to come home in a few weeks and see the new garden, hopefully the plants with be starting to come through by then! In this garden I have put in 25 sweet potatoes (today), tomorrow I plan on putting in beets, turnips, green beans, cucumbers, lettuce, radishes  and hopefully a few more plants if I have the room. I plan on having a lot of things to can this year, fingers crossed! Then I am taking off Saturday from farm work (except feeding) :) my nephew is getting married down by the river and after the reception is having a party, so it will be an all afternoon and evening thing. I think though I will only stay for a little while at the party Mom will not feel like staying very long and I don't drink anyway so that's OK. I should have some pretty pictures to blog about though! :) I think this is long enough so bye for now!