China Cabinet

A while ago I found a gorgeous china cabinet for sale....As it turned out I knew the seller, anyway due to one thing and another on both ends...We did not bring the cabinet home until yesterday.

I love it...though I still have a little more china than cabinet...good thing I still have the other smaller china cabinet as well

Or maybe I will just rotate depending on my mood :) , That way I can still use the smaller one for my Silkstone doll collection as originally planned.

So when I finish on the dinning area I will share images of the entire space.

Blessings Kelsie

First Day of Kindergarten

The wee one is not so wee anymore...

Today was her first day of school career, 

one day down, 13yrs to go.

We have opted to place her in the local charter school, with smaller classes and philosophy to allow children to learn at the level they are capable of, instead of holding them back and forcing the accelerated kids to "wait" for the others to catch up.

School uniforms, which having been raised in a system that required them for 12yrs, I am a huge believer in uniforms for school children and do not buy into the BS about uniforms stifling creativity blah blah blah.

The next few weeks are going to be an adjustment I am sure, with trying to juggle bedtime and evening chores etc...But we will work it out...because we don't have much choice now do we lol.

Blessings Kelsie

Out with the big goats, In with the Sheep.

Once again it has been a big gap between updates...So I will try and do a quick catch you up about here, before I have to rush out the door again.

The 2 big boy goats did not stay long, they were super sweet and friendly, but alas they brought with them a really bad habit of jumping over fenced or should I say, breaking fences...Our 4 foot fences are a great barrier for our little Nigerian Dwarf goats but not a match for the big Nubian whethers.
Since neither had a function on the farm other than to help eat down the grass, spending money to electrify the fence to contain them was just not an option...So I sold them to a hobby farm that has other large goats for them to live with.

Ewe's grazing in the top north pasture.

Finally we got our sheep...14 in total...well actually it was 15 but we lost a little ewe lamb in the first week since we did not realise she was sick (or even on property) for the first few days...By the time we did realize she was just to far gone for our inexperience shepherding skillz to help her...But we did learn alot from her in the short time she was with us and have already put it to use with the rest of the flock.

These are the ram lambs when they first arrived...They had not finished shedding their winter coats yet.

We have a 4 ram lambs...3 are being fattened for the butcher...They are  Kadahdin sheep/St Aug cross.

This is Rocky, he will be staying a little longer as our Stud ram...I can't believe how much he has grown in the 5 weeks he has been on property....He gets so vocal when he sees the ewes coming in or going out from the pasture...Think he is going to be a good worker *wink*

Other news and part of the reason I have to rush thru this post...We finally found a Dr that was willing to listen to us about Sara's behavior and reactions to things..This new Dr put us on the road to have Sara tested for ADHD and Sensory Processing Disorder...We are currently under going Occupational Therapy and Evaluation twice a week...but it does require driving to another town for these sessions...As you can imagine this eats up alot of "spare time"...But needless to say, finally getting some answers and confirmation to our fears that our child is in fact on the Autism Spectrum has been pretty intense and we are doing what we can to learn and help and deal with all of this.

The Photography also continues to keep me busy and buried under work...What a blessing to have so many wonderful clients that trust me to capture their precious moments for them...And to be able to continue to work from home and help support the family financially doing something I love.

Back to things farm related..>This morning me and hubby built a Squeeze pen/runway for the ewes, so tonight after it cools down we can catch them and drench them...We did the rams last week and the visual improvement in them is amazing...Our hope is to get them to good health quickly and then continue to maintain them as chemical free as possible...Pasture rotation has already begun also.

But more about all that later...I really have to share pictures of our makeshift wooden fenced run with yall...they are ummm, creative to say the least lol.

Blessings Kelsie

The Cowboys

Even with 7 Nigerian Dwarfs the tiff9 is getting out of control...truth be told the little goats are hardly touching it and twice already this yr Farmer Brown has had to get out there and mow....Yes 4 of the little goats are just babies but still we need more grass eaters.

This is where the cowboys come in...A friend of mine had to rehome 2 of her bottle baby Nubian wethers.



This is Maverick (Black) and Wyatt (Tan)
Wyatt is actually a Mini Nubian...Both still have a bunch of growing to do yet but seem huge to us since we are used to the little goats...Maverick is going to be HUGE...I have seen his daddy and you could saddle that pony up lol.

They will stay separated by fence for the next 14days ...This is their first encounter with the others.
Sarah Goat is already establishing herself as still the boss goat....Snorting at the fence and trying to butt them...she is so silly.

Blessing Kelsie

Inside the studio and other ramblings

Back inside the house the photo studio is coming along...I still have to paint the desk and make a skirt for the craft/framing table...but the important part...the actual photographing area is up and running.
This week of course it is set up for a Valentines Day themed shoot...Sadly the little girl whom was supposed to be here this morning is sick with the flu so we had to rescheduled her for next weekend.



hmmm maybe when I get out the sewing machine to do the table skirt I should maybe hem the sheers on the french doors so I don't have to have them knotted up so they don't drag on the floor.

The baby goats have been keeping me busy...we had some below freezing nights so I was up every couple of hours to check on them, run the heat lamp in the little goat house, for 30 minutes to keep it cozy then turn it off again so not to burn anything to the ground...Then each morning we play shuffle the goats...I put momma and babies in the big "pen" to graze for the day...the other 2 have to be moved from that pen out to the pasture, because Deenie is not being very nice and keeps chasing the babies to butt them...Hoping she is going to be nicer to her own when they are born at the beginning of March...The babies are to little for the pasture because they can fit thru the fence...and that can't be good....maybe by next week we can put them all out there together...we might have the rest of the fence stretched too. (the neighbor decided that goat fence is to hard to put up, so they just ran barbed wire for their cows...we will be putting up our own wire on the inside of the poles...in the mean time my dog is house bound so he does not chase their stupid cows because he can run straight under the lowest strand of wire...not feeling very neighborly these days...or at least to that one lol)

I am still sorting thru content of boxes that came out of the double wide trailer we sold back in Oct 2012.
Which I guess I should share photos from that event sometimes soon...The good news is, this week I took 2 boxes and one large black bag of stuff to the thrift store...one day we might even have a box free dinning room woot woot.

Well better get dressed and prep for the tween bday shoot I am doing this afternoon.

Have a wonderful blessed weekend

Kelsie