I've got a SECRET!!

I've got some exciting news I've been waiting to share!!
21 Secrets has been such a success, with over 600 participants and so much art journal love over on the playground, we have decided to keep 21 SECRETS open until January 1st 2012!!!
Registration has been extended until October 1st so you have plenty of time to sign up and plenty of time to work through the classes!! Come join us over at the playground! Whether you are new to art journaling, or have been playing with journals for years, this workshop is for you. Workshops focus on process with techniques added in, so no matter where you're at in journaling, there's something there for you.
Click below to sign up, and visit THIS POST to view more details about the class!


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Lucy is Home!!

Harriet and Ginger spent their last day as the only two goats on the farm eating trees yesterday...

Today, Lucy came to live with us! The girls aren't too sure about her, and she's calling for her mommy like crazy... but I hope in the next few days she'll get settled in. Keena is beside herself. She can't stand still she's so excited. Silly dog.
Macs got to hold Lucy on the drive home...

By the time we pulled into the driveway, she had buried her head in his armpit and was snuggling sweetly with him.
Somebody loves that! lol

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How Does your Garden Grow?

One year ago, this was what my garden looked like.

The oak tree on the right is still there, just out of site in this photo I took today.

The view from just inside the garden gate last year when I brought the rabbits home. Overgrown, and not very happy.

A winter of chickens scratching rabbit and goat poo into the ground, five blisters and a lot of hoeing and hauling later:

The salad bar...

Just outside the garden gate to the right, my spent hay corral. I put up a lightweight "fence" to keep the chickens from spreading the hay cleaned from the goat barn too thin and all over. They break down the hay even further, and eat the feed and seed that would sprout in the garden. Then I use the hay for mulch. Goat poo is like rabbit. It can be safely put onto a garden without composting.

If you're in the mood to listen to me ramble... I have a video tour too!!

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Farm GEEK

The chicks hatched!! All SEVEN of the eggs I put under the two broodies hatched. It's so sweet to see how the chicks already know to follow their momma's around and do what they do... I can see so easily how much better it is to do things this way... no heat lamps... no worries about babies not drinking water... they snuggle under their toasty momma and she shows them where the food and water is.
Here's a video...
and
please.
PLEASE.
TRY
TRY
TRY
to ignore my totally geeked out tone of voice. I'm officially a farm nerd. lol

In other news...
I took Ian to a Basketball camp in Portland, and while we were there, we went to the Saturday Market. There was also a Dog Walk, so there were dogs EVERYWHERE!! This one was HUGE. It's not really obvious in this photo, until you look more closely and see that there is a FULL SIZED TRASH CAN in the left side of the photo. He was HUGE.

Also?
Maybe not the best name for your restaurant.

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New

It's been busy!!
You know...
On Line art classes...
Planting the garden...
Stealing Rescuing artichokes from certain death... (they were volunteers in the county ditch that was due to be sprayed soon... and also happened to be the kind of artichoke I've been trying to find.)

Getting turkeys...

Hatching out 27 eggs and then having two hens go broody... (pretty soon the chick count will be up to 7 chicks higher...)
Watching 27 chicks grow up...

Camping with friends...
First Bon Fires of Spring...
Counting down the days to baby goats being born on my farm...

It's been busy for sure...
Soon to be posted:
Art with 5/6 graders...
New chicks...
Garden photos...
This time of year is always so busy. I can't wait for summer to be here, and to not have that extra bit of "life" to worry about.
So...
What's new with YOU?!
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