April 4,2009

A beautiful day today. The horses were eager to get outside and spent the first few minutes running and rolling. I took the opportunity to sit in the barnyard and watch the animals while the pot-bellied pigs ran around. I saw the first of the barn swallows this morning. We have many nests in the barn and it takes a while getting used to them soaring in and out of the barn. Because of the barn swallows and bats, we do not have many mosquitoes.

Five goats greeted Donny when he went to the barn so he checked the fence and found several places that had been washed out by the rain. I guess it was becoming common knowledge where the go to place was. He spent the morning trying to fill in the holes. Hopefully it will help some but goats still continued to get out during the day.

The grass finally got mowed and the garden was tilled. I noticed that the Persimmons and Paw Paw trees where getting little buds on them. I will have to make sure and cover them when it freezes next week. My Mock Orange, Witch Hazel and Honeysuckle that I planted are also leafing out. Everything looks a lot better but I will need to do a little bit more tomorrow.

As we were feeding tonight we noticed that one of the cows, Mercy, was in labor and she had a nice heifer calf just as the sunset. The calf seemed healthy and Mercy has always been a good mother so we won't have to worry about her. Dusty also noticed that one of the goats may be in early labor but we will just have to see about that.

Supper tonight was fix what you want with everyone eating when they got a chance.