Bucky and our missing hen

We have been enjoying raising our 14 hens not just because they are laying eggs, but because a few of them have become our childrens pets. There are 4 in particular that the kids love to carry around. Henrietta, Blaze, Red and Jessabell. Well we recently added 4 wild hens to our bunch since we got rid of all our roosters. We only wanted egg laying hens. About a few weeks ago this rooster showed up. We didn't notice until it started to cockadoodle doo in the mornings. Fortunatly it never bothered us because they live in Nancy's back yard! Ha Ha. We took care of this rooster thinking it might go back to wherever it came from, but it kept hanging around. About a little over a week later, one or our hens turns up missing. I thought one of Casey's friends was playing a trick on us, until we noticed that this missing hen would show up at night. Then she'd disappear again. When we did see her in the day time our horse Bucky would fight with her. She would kick and buck around this hen. Well.........this is why!
This is Bucky. She has been pretty honery with one of our hens and we couldn't figure out why.

It's because one of our hens has been laying eggs in her salt lick bucket. She's been sitting on 9 eggs now for about 2 weeks.

I guess we'll see if they hatch in another week or so!

Elk Hunt Winkle Ranch

This past weekend we went to the pasture at the Winkle Ranch to shoot a cow elk. The kids also shot their pellet guns, fished in the stream and went coyote hunting with grandpa Brent and Tyler. The pasture is so pretty and relaxing. There are alot of elk to see, but unfortunatly, I didnt come home with one. I really didn't get a chance to shoot. Our plans are to go back in a few weeks before the guided hunts begin.

The boys and grandpa leaving to hunt coyotes.



Payton getting a knife to widdle a stick.


Payton fishing in the stream.





Dillong fishing. I think he cought quite a few fish!

Here is a pretty picture I took of the stream.

Blake threw his fishing line a little to far and got it tanbles on a tree branch. He had to cross the log over the waterfall to get it unhooked.

Mariah finally got her braces on today. She has been waiting for years to get them on. I think they make her look much older than she is.

Back To School

The kids went back to school last wednesday. I am now home with no kids in tow. I get 5 hrs. of me time. The house is cleaned by 9:30 and so I spend quite alot of time cooking(trying new recipes), sewing, reading, running errands and hanging out on the computer. When it starts to cool down, I'll get back into the yard thing. Here are pics of the kids on the first day of school.










Mariah is in 8th grade.

Kylee's in 7th Grade

Dillon's in 3rd grade

Paytons in 1st grade

Payton on his second day in school decked out in Laker gear!

City Leage Baseball

The boys had a great year on their city league baseball team. Dillon played for the Pirates and Payton played for his favorite team "The Angels". Dillon played short stop and pitcher while payton played all over. My favorite position for payton was catcher. He was so cute!