Sorry I have not been posting in such a long time. We have gotten about a foot of snow since the last time I posted maybe more because it has snowed since I last measured.

 The chicken that I posted about earlier died the 22nd of December and my whole family has been sick with the stomach flu. Two of my family members got it one at a time and then on Monday five of us got sick. My dad is the only one that did not get sick. Well that is all I have to post. I hope some of you will comment.

                         Samantha

 Well last night it snowed five inches. I think we will get some more snow storms before christmas.

 Well thats all I have to post right now. I hope some people will comment. I don't know if I will post before christmas. So I wish every one a merry christmas.

Samantha

Sorry I have not posted in a long time. I have been really busy! One of our chickens is sick. So we have been busy taking care of her.

It has snowed here but it has all melted. Well that is all I have to post. Just wanted to tell you guys what I have been doing.

Samantha

 My brother, sister and me went out to check on the chickens and we had a wonderful surprise. One of our chickens had laid an egg! We were so excited. We had to call my dad, my grandma and two friends.

  Here is a picture of it :)

I hope you enjoy it.

                 Samantha

 Well last night we  finally got our chickens. There are ten, we bought nine and then the person gave us one as a gift, it is the black one. It is a Black Sex-Link and the white ones are White Plymouth Rocks.

Our neighbor had a old play house on stilts that he didn't want any more, so my dad thought that we could use it as our chicken coop.  It was so scary cutting it down. Here are some pictures of it before on the inside and of taking it down.

Here are some pictures of the inside all done!

Nest boxes

Roosts

 Well I hope you enjoy the pictures.

                    Samantha

  My family has been blessed by adopting a apple orchard. We have taken over a busines so we are selling the apples and apples cider. What a job!

  Last saturday we were pressing the apples and two peaple had called and made apointments to press their apples and then one person just showed up and asked if we would press his apples. So we ended up pressing all day. We finished cleaning up at around five o'clock.

  I will try and post some pictures of the apple orchard some time.

                     Samantha

  Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. There has been to much to do. We have been busy putting up food. We have been making plum and grape juice, pressing apple cider and harvesting the garden.

  All right here is the huge blessing. The pasture behind my house well the person that owns it is selling it my family and  here is a nother huge blessing some one is moving and they have chickens and were they are moving they can not take there chickens and so they have to sell them. They have already sold some but they are saving eight chicken so we can buy them.

      Samantha

Here are two picture of the pasture behind my house. My family also has two horses out in the pasture they are in the picture below. There names are the roan is Pepperoni and the palomino is Dutch.

My grandpa has five horses and my favorite is the youngest, Nipper he is a chestnut. The small picture off to the side is of him.

             Samantha