I like to just take a walk around the farm. It is interesting to see what the kids and the animals are doing.
I started by walking into a small woods behind the house that the kids have played in since some of them had been babies and all of them hadn't started school yet. My second son Michael has kind of colonized this woods for the past few years. I often say jokingly that he was born in the wrong century because if you give him an axe he'll soon be a chopping and a building. Sure enough he was chopping and had just built a small fire.
He has been cutting down and up trees for a few weeks and has about twenty log piles scattered through the woods. He also has been getting logs ready for some building. So far they are just cut and he has taken the bark off of a few of them. I don't think he has had the adze to them yet.
He has been building things in and out of the woods for some time now. Some of his buildings are bigger than they look in the pictures. The story and a half chalet type building is about 20 feet high at the peak. This is one of the benefits of living in the country for a child. If they like to build all they need are a few tools, and they can find their own raw materials.
After visiting the woods I walked back up into the yard and took a few shots of our cat who thinks he is a chicken, visiting with his flock. For the whole story on this check out the post of the same name on this blog. He really loves being with the chickens. When they are out he is with them.
They really are used to him and don't seem to care if he is right beside them even Pab the rooster who is right in front of him in this picture has no problem with him.
As I was walking up to the barn I noticed our now 2 week old Scottish Highland bull calf Monty licking the mineral block. He is still on milk from his mom and will be for about 6 months, but he always has to try out what Annabelle and the Dun are eating. He chews on hay and grass with them, and he eats a bit of grain and molasses feed with them and licks out their bowls. We just give them a bit of this feed in the morning and evening so that they will come anytime we call them. They can be anywhere in the fields and if I start yelling for them they come.
When I went in Annabelle, Dun, and Monty came into their pen, which is next to Doggie and Red's pen. I was trying to get a picture of Monty, but he kept hiding behind Annabelle, though I did get one anyway, but not a great one.
Red and Doggie were sniffing and licking my old Carhart coat, and I could tell Red was going to try to lick me. He has the longest tongue I have ever seen on a cow. He will use it to grab leaves off of the trees in the summer. Well anyway, I took a picture just before he could lick the camera.
I guess this isn't my usual topical post, just a bit of rambling. Hope you didn't mind.
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