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This is the one certain time of the year that I definitely don’t stick to my own guidelines of using only pictures from VF & G.  September is the month that Vicktory Farm and Gardens moves into different locations.  Early September we expand to the mountains, mid-September we move to The Fair. I had no … Continue reading »

I always like to add something new to the booth each year.   Last year it was the baby quail (cheepers) pen, that has turned into the baby pen because this year we didn’t have baby quail but we had baby turkeys (poults).  But that wasn’t what was new this year, just changed up and recycled. … Continue reading »

I’m so excited! I ordered some new chicks, they will be coming in the mail in 8 days. I’ll be getting 20 Brown Leghorns 20 White Jersey Giants and 5 white Plymouth Rocks.  The leghorn is a white egg layer, which will be nice to have and they’re a beautiful bird.  The Jerseys and Rocks … Continue reading »

Have I mentioned before Dear Reader, that tears, especially from my children make me nervous?  I got a good dose today.  Bet had to have an endoscopy and they send the patient out the door long before they’ve regained their senses, who knew you could walk before you could see or have short term memory?  … Continue reading »

      Don’t blame me, SOAP was Imac’s idea of a theme for this week’s Header Challenge.  Every time he mentioned it he capitalized every letter.  Clearly he wanted us to address the theme with an acronym. What I found for the meaning of SOAP was Simple Object Access Protocol.  I realize that it … Continue reading »

 WARNING! The contents of this post may be graphic and unsettling proceed with caution…….. Sunday morning we woke to find evidence that dogs had come in the night, killing two lambs and injuring two more. Whenever something is killed on the farm we make sure to take note of how it was killed so we … Continue reading »

Wowhas been spilling out of my mouth and rolling through my head for the last hour or so since we heard over the radio that Osamabin Laden was killed by American forces based on intelligence from Pakistan.  I was thankful to hear that the body is in our possession, hopefully the DNA tests will prove … Continue reading »

Dirt and I are abandoning Bet for the weekend and heading north to see the newlyweds and our good friends the Coulters.    Not only will I not have a bunch of time to catch up with blogs or write, I won’t be taking the computer at all, for now this is how I compute. Up … Continue reading »

doesn’t she look like a cricket……..    Around 11:00 yesterday I went out to feed a lamb that wasn’t taking to it’s mothers enormous teats (they’re bigger than the dairy goat’s)  and as I was feeding the lamb I happened to look over at Rory and see a little black pile she was licking.  I … Continue reading »

  This is Cricket, my brand new baby girl! I’m so glad she’s finely here………I’ll post more pics and tell you all about her later, right now I’m going to rest from my long day of taking care of babies.   EBet the  Goatkeeper