Country Alphabet - D

I skipped a couple of Show & Tell Fridays, but I'm back today with our Country Alphabet!


D is for...Dogs

Our dog Dakota passed away in June 2007. He was 17 years old. He was part heeler and part chow. Click here for some more pictures of him.
This picture was taken in 2004.

And this one in 2005.


We now have 2 puppies, both were born in July 2008 and we got them in September 2008. They were so tiny back then!
Here is Heidi, the German Shepherd.


And here is Dixie, the Blue Heeler (Australian Cattle Dog).


Getting bigger, October 2008.

Dixie and Heidi this month. We have to keep them chained up now because they are so big and wild and will jump on Gabriel whenever they see him! And they tear everything up. But once they're trained a little better, we hope to be able to let them run around free again.

Country Alphabet - C

Yay, it's Show & Tell Friday again! Part 3 of the Country Alphabet this week.

C is for...Chickens & Cows

Chickens are my hobby and I love to raise them. We love the fresh eggs and the chickens themselves are very funny pets. Here is a picture of me and my pet rooster Buddy, who after 4 years still thinks I'm his mommy.

Beautiful Buddy

Baby chicks are just too cute! I can't wait for Spring so we can get some! These we bought at a feed store a couple of years ago, but this year we may try to hatch our own.

This mama hen managed to sneak off and hide for 3 weeks and one day came back with this adorable little chick...

This is a chick hatching in our kitchen back in May 2007. One night after Cary had just gone to bed, I swear I heard something go 'peep, peep, peep'. I searched everywhere and finally figured out where it came from: from inside an egg in the coffee can that I used earlier that day to collect the eggs in. Normally I would have put them in the fridge, but for some reason that day I didn't.
We put the egg with chick in a box under a heat lamp, and the next morning it hatched while we watched. It was amazing to watch! I named this little hen Lucky, because she really was!

Here is Lucky on her 1st birdday, enjoying some cake.

This is my crazy hen, she will peck at everyone's clothes!

6 in a row...

BBQ chicken

Of course Gabriel loves to play with the chickens!

Since October we also have cows. We currently have 16 calves. They are very cute and very silly!




Our most recent addition to the cow family, 4 bottle calves that we got this week.


Sorry for the picture overload, but there were just too many to choose from!

Country Alphabet - B

It's Show & Tell Friday again! Time for part 2 of our Country Alphabet...

B is for...Barn

We have 2 barns, one for tools, mowers, bikes, our canoe, hay, etc., and one for animals and large bales of hay. Here's the first one...

Gabriel riding his trike in the barn.

Every once in a while the chickens will get confused and start laying in the wrong barn.

And here's the second one...the 'big barn'.

Cary built the calf and chicken pens himself.


Every once in a while we'll catch a snake...yikes!

Country Alphabet - A

It's Show & Tell Friday again and I thought I'd do something a little different. Every other week I will post something that you can find on our little hobby farm out in the country. I will use the alphabet as inspiration, so this week we'll start with the letter A.

A is for...Animals!

Our 2 horses, Smartie & Butterfly

Buddy the Rooster (my baby!)

Chicken family

Some of our calves (we have 12).

Our puppies Dixie & Heidi.