Early bird gets the WORM shop!

Oh dear! Molly decided to have her calf in the aftermath of the 2009 Ice Storm. She was early! It's not yet spring! We always keep an eye on Molly because she won't let her calves nurse. I don't mind to take care of her calves...it gives me a calf to bottle feed and play with. This year, I received a little bull.

DH was feeding the cows and he noticed Molly had calved. He kept looking around for the calf! Molly would look at DH, then look at the barn. DH looked all over the field, in the cattle shed...everywhere. He got to noticing Molly kept looking at him and then at the barn. DH finally goes in the barn. This is the barn we keep the equipment in. At first, didn't find anything; then he saw this little black calf curled up under the hay wagon!

It's really cold, we have no electricity and there's ICE on everything! DH and DS get the little calf out of the barn, head down the hill and to DH's shop. They all slip and slide and roll. They finally make it! DH had the generator hooked up to his shop so we had lights and heat in there. It was way too cold for a newborn baby calf to be in the barn.

When DH called me to tell me he put the calf in his shop. I could not believe it! A little bit about DH shop...it's Penny Marie's "house". It's a concrete block building with a concrete floor, a TV, a bathroom, running water and heat. The only thing it's missing for living is a shower and a stove.

DS named him Early Bird, cuz he got the WORM shop!

See the feet and legs...GANGWAY! I was taking pics of E.B. and he decides to make a run towards me!


This is the right hand page of a double page spread. I started with SU! Basic Grey and the new Walk in the Park DP. The teal/white circle is Making Memories Flower Patch. This was in the Stampin Flybabies Spring 2009 Craft Kit. I used SU! Felt Flowers and Filgree Brads. The title is Taken with Teal on PTI white using Tidy Alphabet. Each word in the titls is separated with a Dress It Up fushia swarvoski crystal. The ribbon (see first photo) is SU! Basic Grey taffeta (I love that stuff!)

Here is the left hand page of the double page spread. As you can see, we ate supper in the shop during the aftermath of the 2009 Ice Storm. There's Penny Marie and E.B. Penny Marie did not like sharing her "house" with a calf. There's me scratching E.B.'s head...more E.B. and finally E.B. sleeping in front of the fridge. It's the cutest thing to watch a baby calf sleep. But first...he had to remember how to lay down! Do I put this leg first...no that one...which one do I bend? What an adventurous first day for E.B. Martin.

Notice the "leaves" on the fushia felt flower? It was created with the taffeta ribbon and attached with glue dots.

Same papers as the other page and I used some buttons from the Kit.

I hope you enjoyed a peek into ond evening of our lives during the aftermath of the Ice Storm 2009. I'll share more later.

Sunday Morning on the Farm

...with my cattle.

I love walking through the pasture on a Sunday morning in the Spring. Sunday morning...because it's tax season and that's the only mornings I don't have to go to work. In the Spring...because of the new baby calves.

My girl Big Betsy has a cute little bull this year. That's Big Betsy in the upper left hand side. She's giving her boy Bobby Ear a good lickin'. :-D

Awww...mom! Not in front of my friends!

Below that, on the lower left hand side, is little Bobby Ear. Why Bobby Ear? See that ear sticking out? It's much less "bobby" than it was when he was born. He looks like his daddy. :( All frowny. LOL. In the next pic over, Libby has an itch. And the last pic is the view from the top of the hill. All the girls are grazing.

Supplies: Making Memories Flower Patch DP and accessories (Spring 09 Stampin' FlyBabies Spring Craft Kit.)

What a beautiful morning that was! The big pictures is a view looking up the hill to the only tree on our farm! A tulip poplar. Below that is Brownie. She had twins. The first set of twins DH had ever had in 50 years of living on a farm. It was a first for me. Not sure if Dad had twins, but it was a first set of twins for me. They died in childbirth. :( It was so sad. Brownie had them on the hill and she could not get up, so we rolled her over. Hahaha. Yep...we rolled her over. Grabbed DH grabbed her by the hind ankles and DS grabbed her by the fore ankles and rolled her over. She took a few minutes to get her bearings and she stood up. It took her a while to get going, but I'm sure it would me too if I had just had twins. I love Brownie. She's a good cow.

There's Thomas, the little Hereford. He came from Dad's farm last spring. His Mommy died in childbirth. Dad just don't have patience to do the bottle fed calves thing, so brought him over to me. Thomas is a good boy.

Supplies: Making Memories Flower Patch and accessories (all from Stampin Flybabies Spring 09 Craft Kit). Also, SU! Bashful Blue. The butterflies are die cut and embossed! They are really neat.

I hope you enjoyed your visit to M & B Acres on Sunday morning. Stop by again.

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