Millennium-Ark: Pic of the Day

Millennium-Ark: Pic of the Day

FDA What?

"The FDA essentially believes that nobody has the right to choose what to eat or drink," said the Natural News site, which explains it covers topics that allow individuals to make positive changes in their health, environmental sensitivity and consumer choices.

"You are only 'allowed' to eat or drink what the FDA gives you permission to. There is no inherent right or God-given right to consume any foods from nature without the FDA's consent."

Meet the newest family member "Gordon"

4/25/2010

This is Gordon, (Formerly Mark) our newest addition on the farm, we saw him this morning at the Nashua Humane Society in Nashua, NH. If you haven't been to this place and you love animals you should go, this place is fantastic, great friendly staff that really cares about the animals, nice environment for the animals, dog walking paths, etc. After visiting most of the Humane society and shelters in the area we're glad we happened upon the Nashua Humane Society, they really made the adoption process comfortable for us, our dogs as well as Gordon.

They had us fill out a 3 page questionnaire, discussed our needs, the dogs needs and any issues with a particular animal, behavioral traits, how they interact with other dogs, cats, kids, etc. Then they had us bring Chloe in to see if Gordon would get along with Chloe, they both did great, the HS was concerned as Gordon was aggressive with others. There were 4 staffers watching the two interact and they did fine.

Well it's been 3-4 hours, he is now sitting on command, occasionally when he forgets barking or growling at a passing cat. He has gone outside all day to do his business, (#1 & #2) we're all so proud.




Typical puppy, everything goes in the mouth, He loves to play ball, already has a favorite blue rubber 10" ball he chases around the yard. James and Jason, Crystal and Jarrod came over to see him today he did great with the kids too.











I am so tired...

















I'm going home with my new family. I did great on the car ride home too!

Amazing choir (Perpetuum Jazzile) uses their hands to simulate storm

The Humble Bumble...

Bumble Bee,
I haven't seen this kind before... Joe?

Just for you...

Here this is for you!

Cruisin' on Papa's tractor

Off we go faster, faster... Jason and James taking turns on the 1951 Ford 8N tractor.

The Newest Fishermen...

Jason and James went fishing with their new "CARS" fishing rod today. They both did very well for their first time out with a practice plug. (Next time with real hooks and worms) We would cast it out and they would reel it in. Couldn't get the grin off their face as long as they were holding the rod.


I think Jason is ready for a fly rod and Waders.

The Bees are Back

The bees are back, the Weeping Cherry tree was covered with Mason, Bumble, and Honey bees today by the thousand, appears everything is going to be early this year.

The Swallows came in late last week. Daffodils are blooming, almost all of our flowering trees and shrubs are ready to burst any day now.

The barn is cleaned and ready for this years menagerie...

Rose is busy on the flower beds transplanting out of some of the older beds.

In New Hampshire Video, (Via Nancy)

The Winter Storm Feb 2010

Rose and I were out walking today looking at the storm damage from the Wind and Snow storm the 25th-27th, walking is about all we can do as this chest cold we have is nasty, it's on it's way out now but the congestion lingers for weeks.

We let Willow out in the field today for a run, he wasn't really interested in running in 6+ inches of snow and within a half hour was standing by the gate ready to come back in. We're still 2-3 weeks + from having bare fields here.

THE STORM
Seems we were pretty lucky I guess, "Mom's Pastries" across the way got hit hard, a tree came down on their porch roof, they still have a construction crew over there repairing the damage, we had some roofing blow off the barn, a section of the metal roof on the workshop needs to be re-nailed back down. We were without power Friday but got it back later in the day, lost power Friday morning at 4am and didn't get it back until Tuesday night 3/2 at 4pm. As I sad we were lucky we were able to save the big freezers contents.

Rose's Glass Top table, the 20+ lb glass sheets were lifted out of the table a smashed themselves against the back of the house 30 feet away.





The Greenhouse fared little better, (The covers been off) The end of the hothouse is now disconnected and leans.














The small shed that was against the back of the house is now tipped over, afraid to try and right this one, ugh. It's full of candles, lanterns and all manner of summer stuff. Chloe is certain that there is a chipmunk living inside and is camped near is most of the afternoon.







SPRING IS COMING

Spring is almost here though, the Crocuses are pushing their way through the leaves, Rosie raked them to give them more sun.