Animal Crackers - Summertime

Howdy - 

 Well we have made it to August. And it has been a nice summer so far. We have had a bit of rain and it really hasn't been nearly as hot has normal summers. Now hat I have said that we will probably break records in August...  

The animals all seem to be happy and enjoying the weather. 

Happy chickens clucking and scratching around their coop.

I went in to talk to the goats. We don't have many goats now. Since we decided to downsize the goats it is not as loud in their pen. Little Penelope really has become so friendly. And now will come right to me. Love this pretty little girl. 

And Chipmunk has really gotten calm since he is not the only male in the family.

He loves just laying in the shade chewing and chilling... he will come to the fence and get head scratches and is just so mellow now that he isn't competing for attention. We miss is brother but it is nice that Chipmunk is getting his share of attention. 

Last week I showed our "Three Stooges" the three standard donkeys that are always together. I love that this week I got a photo of our "Mini Three Stooges" 

 

Lacey, Vicki and Pepita - always together here they were cleaning up the last of the bit of hay that had blown around on the ground.... Don't waste a thing! 

Had to show off Hubby's Purslane flowers this week. WOW they were going nuts! God's rain water and lots of sun and they were very happy! 

 

Hope you have a very blessed weekend and hope you have an Animal Crackers smiles! 

HUG and -

Animal Crackers - Silly drinking

Howdy - 

I love that silly look while she is taking a drink. Not sure why they hold their tongue out while they are enjoying a cool drink in the afternoon, but they all do it. So cute. 

 

 

And speaking of cute. Look at that face! Juliet and her long pretty ears! She is such a sweetie! A silly sweetheart! 

And standing right next to Juliet was tiny little Josie... pushing her way to get her share of the attention!

 

 She may be all grown up but she is still my tiny girl! Love her and all her whiskers! 

Turned around and saw Miss Jackie watching me.

 

Such a pretty old goat! And her great long beard!

 Walking back towards the house saw my three standards enjoying an afternoon snack. I love how they are always "The three Stooges" all for one and always lined up together! 

I wish this photo did the color justice! It was so amazing! Bright Bright Yellow and Deep dark red! Was gorgeous! 

 

Hubby and his flowers ... I am not allowed to touch. Not good with plants. But I love to enjoy how great he is with them... so I photo them! And do not touch them! LOL 

Hope you enjoyed this week! And hope you have a blessed weekend! 

HUGS and

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

Howdy - 

 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

Howdy - 

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

Howdy - 

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