Two's a couple, three's a crowd

Our little guy finally arrived and all of us are happy and healthy. He weighed just under 9 pounds. You can tell that his "helpful" older siblings are thrilled to have him home.

I won't be posting personal info here on the blog, but if you want an official "announcement," you can send your email to me at curby22@aol.com

The Kamikazes are coming!

We have a lot of crop-dusting planes flying around where we live. Our super-protective dog goes nuts whenever she hears a plane, like it's attacking us or something. You know during WWII those suicide pilots that intentionally flew their planes into aircraft carriers?

Well, this plane flying/dog chasing fiasco has been tagged the "KAMIKAZE ATTACK" at our house. When we hear our dog barking like crazy, we all yell "Kamikazes" as she bolts to chase down the plane. Good thing we have our brave dog to protect us...ha ha!

The other day the field across the road was being sprayed and the plane got pretty close to our house. It was pretty amazing to watch in person, and I grabbed the camera so I could show all of you. Yes, you can see our dog chasing down the plane, and YES, I was upwind of the spray.

The 8+cow wife

One of the hottie qualities my husband had going for him when we were dating was that he owned a bunch of calves and a horse. I was major impressed with his little calf-raising hobby he had going on the side. We spent a lot of time during our engagement working together in the calf pens, and walking with his horse (no, not riding because one of us was always on crutches or injured...which is a long story for another time). When it came time to tie the knot, we had to say goodbye to the animals because it just wasn't practical for our apartment in town. If you only knew how I cried over this, you would really think I am nuts.

I like to embellish the story a bit and say that this makes me a 20-calf and 1-horse wife :)

Anyways, I totally owe him!! This summer we have worked like crazy to get the pasture ready, the fences up, and we bought a stock-trailer. Now that things are all in line, my hubby has had horse-fever like crazy! We are actually ready to get back into some serious animals (goats and chickens don't really rank as "serious"). Anyways, meet our new horse!!

He's registered with the name Ebony Pepper but neither have stuck quite yet. The kids are ecstatic, the hubby is thrilled, and I can't wait to get this baby out so I can start riding too.