Winter

Winter is our new adoptee.  She is about eight years old and comes to us from a sad past.  Anyone who knows us must realize, as Winter does, she has been relocated to Doggie Heaven On Earth (our home). Her eyes remind us of a family human friend.  We have discovered that Winter is almost blind, hears nothing, has heartworms (is being treated for them), and is afraid of thunderstorms. Having said all that, she is the sweetest thing.  We call her Little Bit because when they bobbed her tail, they took off too much and she only has a little bit left.

Here she is modeling her new Thunder Vest.  I am praying that all the commercials are accurate and this thing works.  Otherwise, the stormy nights are going to be very long and unpleasant!

Reclaiming A Brush Burned Area

As we burn brush, we try to reclaim the burned areas.  Usually we throw out some rye grass seed.  On this day, brother Jon had sent us some little blue stem and flower seeds.  The grand kids wanted to help so we put them to work.

A fun time was had by all, and we have our fingers crossed that the seeds will germinate!

Babies

Foggie and Snowflake continue to be best friends.  It is unusual to see one without the other.

 Foggie and Snowflake

This is Biscuit.  Not sure of sex, but Biscuit is one of the recently born calves.
Below is Dot.  A couple days after Biscuit was born, I looked out in the pasture and saw this white dot, hence the name.

After a recent rainstorm, Surprise was born.  A real cutie by all accounts!

Our most recent arrival is Lucky.  Lucky got the name because there were a bunch of vultures feeding on a dead skunk at the time of his birth.  Those birds unable to get to the dead skunk decided to try to get Lucky.  Lucky's mama chased them away until he was able to stand.  He is lucky his mama loved him so much!

Finally an update on ADD.  She's grown into a beautiful little calf!  She is still is very independent, but knows her limits.  

The nursery usually comprises all the babies at some point during the day.  Make no mistake, there is at least one mama close by watching over the youngsters!

Friends

It has been fun to watch the developing friendship between the two youngest members of the herd. Snowflake and Foggie are adorable together.  Yesterday when I was working in the yard, I looked out into the pasture.  I could only see Snowflake and she was snoozing.  I watched and looked but could not see Foggie.  Finally Snowflake stood up and created a shadow, I thought, in the sunny pasture. The shadow was Foggie!  The two had taken a nap together side by side.  Both then "poked" over to their mamas for a snack.

The mamas "tag team" watching their youngsters.   Also, I got a "visual" on Foggie, and he is a boy.

Thought this was a cute picture of Snowflake as she was waking up from a nap.

Bad Fight Or Bad Luck?

Not sure what happened to the other antler on this guy.  I think loosing it could have been pretty painful.  It may make impressing "the girls" a little harder!

Calves

I was headed out the other morning and met ADD on the road.  She was very curious and came close to check me out.

ADD's always been pretty bold and a free thinker.  She usually does what she wants, much to her mama's chagrin!

The other calves were hob-knobbing with the calves belonging to the neighbor.  It is very cute to see all the calves from both pastures meeting at the fence line.

The latest picture of Foggie shows him doing well.  He still does a lot of sleeping and eating.  He got himself in a bit of a jam this afternoon.  The tank has a small inlet feeding into it that is about 12 inches deep with water.  He and his mama were following the herd and somehow he ended up on the wrong side of the inlet.  Lots of mooing ensued from mama and baby until Foggie decided to cross through the water.  I was scared that it might be too deep, but he made it and all is well!  What a cutie!

Putting The Baby Trees In The Yard

We had planted a bunch of acorns a month or so ago.  Looking ahead we would need pots for them when they came up.  So we spent yesterday planting the babies from two years ago into the yard.

I planted about 100++ acorns into 30++ pots two years ago.  Only seven have survived and I was anxious to get them into the ground during this cold season.

This little live oak is sitting at  its new home awaiting planting.

 The buggy is ready to begin the task.

Here the little tree sits in its new home.  It may be small today, but I have great expectations for its future!