How Dumb AM I??

     So this morning, I go out and feed the hogs. I have a boar living with 4
sows, and one of them is due at any time.  She was there for the morning
feeding, so I figured it wouldn't be til tomorrow, since usually the sows will
go off their feed the day of, at least that's been my experience so far...

Wrong.

     I went out to feed at 7 tonight, I like to wait until the majority of the
damn kamikazi face fly/knat things have gone for the night (besides, it's cool
to get buzzed by the bats as they come down to my aid in pursuit of dinner).
So I only see 4 hogs...and one tiny baby piglet...who's in immediate danger
of being trampled by the others as they jockey for position around the feeding area. So I hurry up and dump their food in their bowls, then throw a handful of hay in the bucket, then the piglet, then another handful of hay on top so he shuts up, and start on a game of hoggy-go-seek.
     After a while, after walking all over the lower pasture, which is a
combination of grand firs and deep woods, surrounded by a perimeter of pasture and log piles, and getting spider webbed in the face, scratched by tree branches I can no longer make out, thinking every stump is a hog waiting to pounce...it dawns on me that I am playing a very DANGEROUS game. I realize that I am outside, without my cell phone, without a flashlight, and without anyone knowing where I am, all the while it is getting darker and darker.
     So just to prove to y'all that I am NOT as dumb as I look, I stopped, and
enlisted the help of my son and a couple of flashlights (cell phones and a 22,
even).
    Eventually we were successful in our game, and returned the lost player to his mom, who apparently didn't even know he was missing. He joined the other seven piglets all cuddled in their nest, and mom got a half bucket of pellets as a reward for not being a poor sport.
     Funny thing is, I had walked right past them earlier. I probably couldn't
hear her snoring over the dogs rustling through the grass, since they had
accompanied me, braving the hot fence even, for all the help they gave me. But I bet they WOULD have helped me, if the sow had greeted us in a different manner than her normal sweet self.
     Anyway, I'm glad it all worked out ok, I don't have to bottle feed a piglet
tonight, I still have all my limbs intact, and Clementine is snoring, blissfully
unaware of the excitement caused by pasture farrowing.

nothing is as rewarding as a nice roll in the straw!  

so remind me again why I wanted WHITE animals??? 

yep. It's stuck. The good thing is we found another spring, make a nice watering pond here. Might be awhile til we can dig it tho. 

guess what? April is too early to rototill around here...all three are stuck at this point. 

Jenna, my mini aussie is in 'hog heaven' since there are 'babies' around. The rest of the herd is not so sure... 

Amber did not know who this strange 'blue' goat was...took a couple minutes for her to recognize Pixie. Pixie thought she was pretty cool for a while, the other goats were running from her, she's the low man normally. 

My valentine present to my hubby. Red one is freezer bound, and the black one will be kept for breeding. They spent a couple weeks in here, now have a pen outside, but also graze or root in the goat pasture. 

my black ringneck spent a week on the run, but thankfully we captured him again. Hopefully I will get some eggs hatched under a banty. 

mom frog is just to the right of the leaf. She ducks under when you get close, but surfaces again when the coast is clear. 

haven't been here for a while...

Well, spring is here finally, roads are drying out, and I found a leopard frog with eggs in our pond. I have no idea if she thinks she is guarding them, or if she just happens to like to hang out there, but she stays right with the nest.

Elvis doing that lip thing

my fiber critters 

our koi pond so far... 

we had an awesome hailstorm on Thanksgiving, this came after 

Joe said I should of had a pitchfork in this picture...that's Pikachu in Eli'e shirt...his conure, mini parrot. 

Merry Christmas from the "hillbillies" 

Welcome To Dreamland Farms!

I'd like to be able to have a place where I can post pictures of the farm...hope this works! I've been having a great time getting this place established... we live on 20 acres in NE Washington, nice and rural around here...what a change from the Seattle area we moved from. Joe calls this God's Country, and I have to agree. We actually have 4 seasons here, (let's see, rain, snow, mud and dust lol) and I have become a converted snow wimp. Besides, the snowy weather gives me time to learn to spin and knit all the great fiber I'll be getting from my herd. We have had our latest editions last week. Elvis and Jerry Lee, suri alpacas, soon to be geldings. They share the pasture with my 4 pygora goats, and 7 muscovy ducks and 10 chickens. The barn also holds about 20 rabbits and my last 2 guinea pigs, plus some dumbo eared blue rats. And can't forget Barry and Mandy, my 2 himalayans, they keep the wild rodent population in check. Let's see, oh yeah, Jenna, the mini aussie, who helps me round up the ducks or goats on occasion, and Dutch the german shepherd mix patrol the outside of the pasture, when they aren't rolling in something or dragging off shoes. Anyway, I will be posting pictures soon, and I'd love to hear from other fiber addicts... thanks for stopping by!