Animal Crackers - Blessed with Summer Rain

Howdy - 

We are blessed with some Summer showers! Green in July is a rare thing here! It's mostly weeds growing but hey its green weeds! LOL This coming week they are calling for some pretty heavy rain. Hoping we get some of that. So far we have just been getting light showers, but very happy with those! The boys are loving their green and the lower temps! Its been in the lower 90's so much cooler than normal! 

We came through the gate and found Cocoa drinking over the fence stealing water from the boys tank. I guess water on the other side is better? Kind of like grass is always better?

Hubby has to make sure and feed the boys hay farther in the pen than her use to. She is tall enough she will stretch into the pen over  then fence and take their hay if she can.... Funny old girl!

Found Valentine closer up by the house standing in some weeds. My lumpy big boy! 

Still can't get over green weeds in JULY!

Teddy came in for a close up and lots of ear scratches. He is such a sweet guy. Man he is turning so grey though! His face use to be all brown! But it is a distinguished good looking grey! 

Coming through the back gate I had to ask Grey Beard to back up he was blocking the gate and I couldn't get in the yard. I got a meow... then a yawn. I think I had disturbed an afternoon nap. He is such a sweet guy especially for an outside feral kitty!

Like his Momma.... Now she is very skittish! She is getting much better. Heck she actually stayed still while I snapped a photo of her within 10 feet! But as I stepped into the yard - she was gone!

If you are wondering why she is laying next to a tool here.... Hubby had to work on the Jeep this afternoon. Battery went dead.... sigh. Always something isn't it? 

Hope you enjoyed this week - have a Animal Crackers Smile. Enjoy a furry friend where you are! 

HUGS and

Animal Crackers - Between the Showers

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 Yesterday afternoon I got busy and was late getting out to take photos. Then it started raining. I waited for that shower to stop, and then was going to go out and was working and by the time I realized it stopped raining another shower was almost to us. I grabbed some shoes and my camera and went out try and get my my photos. It was thundering... and was starting to rain. Most everybody was already heading for cover. Chipmunk was trying to get some of his remaining breakfast  before it was too late.

 

He is so sweet though he just had to come and see me for some loving too. Love this guy! Even if he is totally stinky!! 

I heard the chickens making noises. You would have thought that they would have been in their huts. But nope they were getting perched up and hunker down for the shower coming. They crack me up! 

They are not afraid of the rain at all and just sit there and take the rain... they stay out in it. They do it for the rain, the snow whatever. My chickens are strange. LOL

Now they aren't afraid of the rain.... but me with my camera.... that spooks them and they fly off!

 

Sigh.....  Like I said strange chickens.... 

I turned towards the lady goats and man it was dark over the hay barn. And then it thundered LOUD. But you can't hear that in the photo.... I don't think I am going too far out to take photos I don't want to get soaked. So I headed in!!

 I came in and found McLaren sitting on the end of the bed in deep thought. Do I want to know what she is thinking about? I don't really know, her nickname is "Crazy".... I might be better off not knowing. LOL

 

Hubby picked up a great old concrete bird bath this week at an estate sale! We haven't had one in years. Just in time for the summer heat for the birdies!

Now I need to catch some our gorgeous red cardinal birds getting a drink! 

Hope you all are having a wonderfully blessed weekend. We finally got a little  bit of rain so we are feeling blessed this weekend! Hugs from all of us here!

Animal Crackers - Keep a close watch!

Howdy - 

As I went out to take photos of the ladies they were much more interested in watching "Dad" as usual. Things are hot and dry now so getting their hay is much anticipated each day, than in spring when they have grass to graze.

 

They were not too happy when he went off in a different direction.... LOL but he was cleaning out the truck to go and get a load of hay from the field so it was going to be promising in the end for them, right? 

Bella still keeping a watch as the truck was backing up and diving off to hook up the trailer. Just in case it was a mistake and he was going to come her direction. Such a sweet pretty girl with her long slim long ears.

One of my main goals was to get a photo of Josie and Hannah and show off how shiny and slick they both are right now. I found Josie first... sigh just after she got up from a nice wonderful dirt roll!!! You can sort of see how shiny she is... but my she has lots of dirt and dried grass on her! I guess I didn't warn her I was coming to take her photo.

I tried to explain that is not so lady like and she should stay clean and pretty - but hey it must feel good to them because they all love a good "dirt bath" roll!

Hannah was off standing behind some of the girls and she too had evidently had a good dirt roll this morning. But you can still see just how slick and pretty she is! 

 

Then the fences were started banging and everyone was shoving for attention. Since "Dad" wasn't coming they all wanted their personal attention. Patti was really making sure to push up front even if it meant getting squished!! LOL 

Made sure to really give her some loving for working so hard for it! Such a sweet old girl! 

Just had to show off Hubby's Hibiscus flowers that opened up yesterday! They are so stunning! and huge! 

As hot as it is and they love it! Me I'm wilting... but they thrive! Photo really doesn't show off just how stunning the red is. 

Yesterday we spent some time in the hay field like we promised the ladies... bringing in more hay! Always have to bring in more hay.

We are so blessed that Hubby is such a hard worker... `100 degrees and he was loading up the 75-100 lb hay bales on the trailer. I know I kid and say I am there helping. But seriously, I am driving the truck in the AC with the windows rolled up. So I am not suffering at all. He gets in the truck soaking wet with hay and dirt all over him. I love this man he takes care of ALL of us!! 

I hope you all have a blessed weekend - and that you have an Animal Crackers Smiles again this week. 

HUGS and

Animal Crackers - Miss Moxie

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Another hard post. Hubby says maybe I shouldn't do these post, but sometimes our fur children are part of this blog family just as much as our own family. This week we lost Miss Moxie. She has been getting older, and the last two weeks she has been really not feeling well. First off she didn't suffer, she just got old and weak. Nearly 16 for a outside farm dog is pretty good and we did our best to make sure she had the best life possible. She gave us lots of love and we gave it right back.

 

 

She was one of the neighbors dogs puppies - Three of the puppies were kept by the neighbor, who was never home due to work. So we took care of them. The neighbor moved off when they were still young and we adopted them. Heck they spent most of their time here with us. Niner and Nally were the other two doggies, we loved them too, time and wandering off and taking on coyotes and snakes were to much for them. Moxie... she was the sweetheart and never left far from the house at all. She adopted the donkeys as her siblings. Knew to stay just far enough away - but always close enough to "watch over" her family. 

She has been a special part of our family - will be missed terribly - driving onto the property our hearts sink not seeing our normal greeting. 

Always in our drive ears up and tail wagging. 

 

And I just love that grin of hers. I just had to call her name and she would come running and smile at me. 

 

 

She always followed us around the property as if she was taking count and checking on everyone just as much as "Dad". She was fed the the best we could usually all beef hot dogs, or hamburger patties, she never would eat that nasty dry dog food. She loved chicken too, especially shredded chicken tacos or nuggets! She had her cushy bed on the front porch under the porch light and with a heat lamp in the winter. She hated to be contained. Once she wandered in the back yard and the gate got closed and it was a really bad bad reaction. 

 

She knew she live on our property and this is where she stayed happily.

We were blessed to have been the ones chosen for her to live with and for us to love so much. Everyone that met her loved her.
 

Miss Moxie you will always be the best farm dog ever! We already miss you and will always remember you and love you! 

HUGS and

Animal Crackers - Beautiful Faces

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Made my way out this morning to take photos... Not too far out as I am still hobbling on my knee. Man I am so sick of it! I am use to it hurting but I really pulled something in it a couple weeks ago and it just doesn't want to get better. But I am moving and trying to get things done! Today I decided to show off some beautiful faces - Sergio started it off...pushing his face into the camera! 

Such a sweet guy! My boy. He does love his nose rubbed and then kissed. Yes Sir - Mom always loves on you dude! 

Turned around and saw that someone was staring at me. Miss Cocoa. 

Cautious Big Girl. She is moving slow this week as well. The humid weather is really doing a number on all our old bones Cocoa!

As always never far from his Momma is Valentine. Now he usually will always step towards me for some head scratches. 

A Big Baby but a totally Love! A Lumpy Love!

Funny normally always first up for head scratches is Teddy. But nope today I had to walk out to him and find him. He found a patch of fresh grass! 

We have had a little rain this week. Weather people were saying like 4-8 inches for us from the tropical storm Alberto... but NOPE...we got just over an inch. Not complaining really an inch is an inch we will take it. But man we were looking forward to a really good downpour to soak things down. Anyway - Ted found some grass coming up and was taking care to MOW it down right away! 

Went to see the goats - Lizzy was chowing down and I tried everything to get her to look at me for a photo. She was totally ignoring me. So I said fine I will just take your photo and everyone will know you don't care to look and smile! 

LOL she is a pretty lady. And breakfast was just too important at that moment. 

Was heading back to the house and found this little guy next to our back sidewalk. Another tropical storm is brewing in the gulf. Maybe we up for some more rain this next week and isn't there an old saying that when the snails are climbing up lots of rain is coming? 

Hope he is climbing high! Go little guy go! 

Came inside to this face at the back door. Breakfast Mom?

Its coming right now big boy! He is so funny. Actually he really begs for breakfast - but once it is delivered, he will take a bite or two, then back off and let his sisters and Momma Cat eat first. He then heads back and chows down. A gentleman? hmmmm when it comes to meal time maybe yes, rest of the day he is wild and crazy and annoying all the girls. Brothers are that way - right? 

Prayers for Miss Moxie this week please. She is not feeling well at all. Being over 15 an outside doggie and this humid heat is rough. Man we love her and hate that she isn't feeling well. 

Have a blessed weekend - Thank you so much for visiting each week. 

HUG and
 

Animal Crackers - A Visit from Our Granddoggie!

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Such a fun week! We got to Doggie Sit our Grand-doggie Ammo!! His Mommy and Daddy had to go out of town and we get to sit for Ammo! We love Ammo so so much! He is my carbon copy clone of Autie... my baby boy. It like having a little piece of my Autie boy that comes to visit. 

Not only does he look just like Autie... he acts just like him too. 

Well I say he is exactly the same but Ammo is better groomed ... LOL We had him most of the week and it was so fun.

He has a schedule to keep. So we stick to that. It amazes me how he can tell time. Lunch is around 11:45... and at 11:40 he sits at my feet staring at me. LOL 

But once he has his meal he looks up and is a happy boy. Love him! And feel so blessed that we get to help out and take care of him when needed and enjoy him.

Miss Chica was a sweet big sister and shared everything and was nice the entire time. She loves her "little" brother. 

Had a photo of Penelope that was too sweet. She is so beautiful. And smart afternoon you stay in the shade of the huts! 

 Short on photos this week... sorry. Hurt my knee big time this week and walking is not too fun. I think it is getting better but man .. OUCH. I am use to knee pain, it is a normal lately, but I really pulled something this time. New meds today so hoping that will help more. 

Hope you have a blessed weekend and enjoy a hug from a furry friend!!

HUGS and

Animal Crackers - Time to Hydrate!

Howdy - 

 Wow Summer is here! and so is the heat. The ladies know the importance of Hydrating. Now taking turns is sometimes is an issue. I think the larger the girl, and the older the girl - they go first. Poor little Josie is the youngest so she had to wait her turn.

But no worries about Miss Josie... she took the time waiting to come over to me and show me her all grown up big girl whiskers! 

She is such a pretty girl. Adorable and sweet. And Yes her whiskers are long! LOL 

Her 1/2 sister Hannah was coming over so Josie and I had to do some speed nose scratching! Hannah is much pushier than Josie. So when she gets to the fence it is all about her! Doesn't she look stunning all slicked off. Pretty Pretty! 

Hannah's Mom Bella and Miss Patti was next up for scratches. Really had to work around Hannah she just did not want to walk away! But everyone gets their attention time!

Walked through the goat pen next. Had to go in and walk through as they were all hiding out of the sun and in the shade of their huts. Mind you this was late morning... not afternoon and they were already taking to their huts! 

Lizzy had one of the larger huts all to herself. She seemed happy about that -

 Our numbers of goats has really gone down the last couple of years. We are wanting to let these older ones live life and then look at new "kids" in the future. 

The oldest now in the family is Malory - the most timid and cautious one left. Since she was born she just didn't have that gene of being friendly. Oh well, she has had a nice life here and we love her no matter what! Shhhh... she is taking a morning nap here... 

Last photo is way over zoomed! But hey we are talking super fast little critter when you get too close! We have lots of little bunnies this year.

Moxie has always taken care of the population of bunnies. Despite me talking to her and asking her to leave them alone please. But now Moxie is getting old and chasing these quick little rabbits are just not on her list of things to do now. So they are everywhere! Especially early in the mornings. So adorable. And FAST! I snapped and it was gone into the brush and I wasn't even that close at all! They know when you are looking at them! 

I hope you enjoyed this week - Have a Animal Crackers Smile! 

Have a blessed weekend - 

HUGS and