It was a hard week this past week

My little sisters father died at the age of 63. He just turned 63 10 days prior. He was like a father to me growing up. The funeral was on Monday. I am still tired from crying so much. But I know he is not suffering anymore.
Keith done many things wrong in his life, but he also done many good things.
One short note

Keith used to always have his handkerchiefs. Well all of us 4 girls wipes our tears away with his handkerchief and laid them in his casket to be buried with him. The picture is of them sitting on the bench we were going to sit at.

This is me and my daughter Julionna putting our Handkerchief in Keith's casket. It was a hard day. One thing I learned from it, is don't take life for granted. I will be contacting my own dad to tell him I love him.

Chickens are so fun to raise!

You know all of these years I wanted chickens, really since I was a kid. Well I am not disappointed. They have been such a blast to raise!
These chickens are so comical. I let them free range with supervision because they are my babies and I don't want them to get hurt. So I babysit them. They found our garden and they chow on weeds and bugs so I am very happy with that! This is an older picture of one of the roosters from the batch. Of course they are allot bigger now! Love my chickees

Family Reunions

Brian and I getting ready to leave for the reunion...




We created a neat forum and will be working on building a website for our family history here is the link Forum . Pictures of family reunion will be there!!

We went swimming and more

Brian and me

The Temperature was over 100 so we went swimming several times. We had fun! Our kids were not to happy when they were told it was time to go home!

Our son Paul getting dressed with his fancy rubber boots and his sister Julionna still swimming!

Then we went blackberry picking. Got lots of berries! YUM!

Humming Birds are so funny

These buggers are fast. I have them swarming my feeder and fighting over who is going to get the fresh yummy sweet juice. Its so funny to watch them humming by and challenging the next one, knocking into the air and making their funny noises!

And all of them have different colors. One actually has the colors of an orangutan and is so cute. Then there is an almost all brown one, then a red throated one and another is several different colors.
Humming Birds are fun to watch and we are feeding them too. Its funny to see them perched on the top of a tree branch. So small but so strong.
They also will buzz your head to get to their food.. lol

Where is the camara when you need it

We decided to take a walk last night. I am not sure of anyone else but when you see water such as a creek or river whatever it may be you all of a sudden are dieing of thirst. We decided the heck with it we are going swimming. So we finally made it down to the water (the Calapooia River) which is right next to us.
We got into the water and normally it is freezing cold because of the snow that comes off the mountains. This water was AMAZING! It was perfect. No freezing water. I know one thing we are going back there often! Its a walking distance away for heavens sake.

Its been so beatiful, I think I need to go outside and knit or do some gardening!

Roses and chickens

Yesterday we got 4 more chickens! They are beautiful chickens and are almost at the age of laying. Once they all start to lay eggs we can make sure our family does not go with-out eggs. LOL They will have more then they need.

Also my mom got a beautiful Rose that is like orange and yellowish. I have never seen a Rose like it! Plus I have my "HAIN" rose. It is purple. The same color I use alot in HAIN! Its really pretty too!

I have been babying a chicken we thought was going to die. But I doctored him up and I think she will be ok.

Last night we went on our walk (which I need). We decided to walk further then we typically do. It was so beautiful!! The sun going down was such a deep orange color. Just beautiful. It lit up the clouds and turned the tips of the clouds orange. Plus the mountain's we live around set the scene for a beautiful walk!
Walking every night has given me time to think and spend time with my husband. Our kids are happier here then when we lived in town. I am too!

Walking and enjoying the weather

I have to say it has been so very nice here in Oregon. We have been taking total advantage of the weather and living in the country. We have a garden now, chickens and one day maybe we will have some property and maybe get a beef! Now that would be great! Plus as mentioned before we have lots of fruit trees and found we also have some nut tree's! It has been a dream of mine to have a farm of my own. My kids can finally be kids here. When your out here you feel like your in another world compaired to when your in town. I thought I would miss being out of town. But I really don't. Besides having a house keeps me busier. Holy Cow.. Maybe just maybe my weight will go on the downside. I have gained 30 pounds since being in the motorhome, plus I was already overweight!

Plus Heavenly Angels in Need (HAIN) is also doing better then it has ever done. There is no more tention. Its been a HUGE blessing!

Life has been great! Glad to be here!

Coons or weasels

We were devistated to find that 4 of our chickens in one of our chicken pens were killed by a coon or weasel. Just heartbreaking. I know that a person is not suppose to be attached to a chicken. But I was. I had 2 of our chicks in that pen that I raised since they were 3 days old and was 6 weeks old this week. Just makes me sick. Needless to say that pen will get worked on. So the other chickens will stay with our other chickens in our save chicken pen and chicken house!

K- graduation Our youngest Paul

Paul was so nervious during graduation but I think he was also excited that he was going to FIRST GRADE! LOL He looked so cute in his little graduation outfit!

Chickens,hen houses and gardening

Brian and I have been trying to use the land God gave us to the best of its ability. There people whom have owned this over the years have planted fruit tree's and there are filbert tree's too. We have always wanted a farm where we could have chickens and be able to grow our own crops to feed our family and reach out to others to help.

As posted before my hubby built a chicken pen and they were finally old enough to put them in the pen and house to live. Now he finally had the chance to build simple next boxes. Here is My hubby and our son Gabe working on the nest boxes.

Then here are some of them installed in the hen house

Here are some of the chickens

Then we have been gardening and here are some of the plants

Working on chicken pens!!

I will load pics later.

My hubby and one of our sons helped him build nest boxes for chickens yesterday. (on fathers day) Gabe "our son" was so excited to help dad build these nest boxes. He was holding onto one end when dad was on the other carrying them to the chicken house. The chickens are in heaven now! We are excited to have at least some of the boxes in!

ITS RAINING AND POURING THE OLD MAN IS SNORING.........

My poor chickies are still so young they do not realize that they have to go into the hen house when it rains. I decided I had better go check on them. I am their mother hen, they follow me everywhere. Anyway I run to the pen, it was raining hard. I find all the chicks huddled in a corner in the pen all wet and trying their best to keep warm, some stuck in the fence. It was sad. I felt so bad for them. I was grabbing chicks and running back and forth trying to get them into a warm dry place. I was soaked to the bone cold. I think the chicks will be ok. I am just glad I decided I had better go check.
Can't wait until this rain goes away for a bit!

Our chickies finally have a home

My husband is building the chickens their home. They are finally old enough to graduate to their own home. We are still needing to put on the roof shingles and we are going to paint it to match our house. It will be cute! Anyway the pictures are not real good. My digital camara is toast so I am using my phone camara.

Here is the chicks with their new home!

Wemay get a garden after all

We are finding that we may be able to put in a garden after all. I already purchased the seeds and now its finding a tiller to rent until we can buy one! I am excited but nervious because of all the added work!! But my big bottom needs to work.

Planting tomoto's and Chickens

We finally got some tomoto plants planted! WHEW! Because we do not have a tiller yet we could not plant a garden. So I am going to plant what I cannot this year. I am also going to do some onions and potato's. We eat so much of these kind of things that it will be great to not have to buy them. Specially with the cost of groceries rising.

We also purchased some chickens (Austrolorps) not to long ago. We are raising them right in our frontroom. LOLOL Not to stay forever, but to stay until they have wings enough to live outside. Brian is building a small chicken pen for our 24 babies. We will never go with out meat or eggs again!!! Taking care of these sweet chicks has been a blast. They think I am mom and fly onto me when I get near their little temp. pen in the house. So sweet! Anyway I will be painting the pen to look like our house. Well at least the colors! I will post pics on a later date!

Home Sweet Home

It has been quit the adventure moving into this big house and learning where to put things, what to keep and throw away.
This is the first post on here. I just wanted to add something. I will be adding lots of things on here and hope you enjoy!