Now You See It...Now You Don't!

Good evening! How are you my friends? I am fine.

When we went to bed last night, we counted five eggs when I took the picture I posted. When I walked  Nathan to his car this morning, we only saw four eggs! A little while later, there were five eggs. Before Nathan came home from work, I counted six eggs! After Nathan came home, he said there were only three. I was beginning to really get confused. Nathan said the crows must have found the nest and were carrying off the eggs. I didn't want to loose all the eggs, so aaron went and got out our incubator and got it up and running. We got the three remaining eggs and placed them in the incubator. We hope to have at least three babies in about 26 days!

Does anyone have any suggestions how to get rid of crows or how to keep them from flying off with our chicken/duck eggs in their mouth. I've seen them do this. It's absolutely insane! We've tried taking some eggs, poking the end with a needle and extracting some of the yolk. We then replace the fluid with "winky juice". Winky juice is made with apple cider vinegar, onions, garlic, habanero peppers, horse radish and you let it ferment for a couple of weeks. You strain out all the veggies and drink the juice to boost your immune system. It packs quite a punch and it will kill whatever ails you. I was hoping it would deter the crows from wanting other eggs in the future, but it hasn't seemed to help. Can anyone give me some advice? 

Well, as usual, everyone is in bed and asleep except for me. Guess I had better join the ranks and get some shut-eye. Until tomorrow. God bless you and may God bless America!

Is It Crazy Around the Farm? Eggsactly!

Hello to all! How are you this beautiful evening? We are enjoying the coolness of the slight summer rain we got today! Yippee! It's the first rain we've had in over three months.

Well, just to let everyone know, Jordan woke up feeling all better. He just drank too much pickle juice yesterday and he felt much better after he got it all out of his system!

We got up and around this morning. I made my daily cup of mocha. I even splurged and made an second cup of iced mocha! I fried a pound of bacon and Nathan made us some crepes. We left for church and listened to a wonderful lesson. 

After church let out, two families from church brought meals for the Gloetzner family. It was very sweet of them, we dropped the food off and the family really and truly appreciated the love and kindness shown to them.

Well, I was outside this morning talking with my nephew, Avery Cogburn. We just happened to start talking about our guinea hens. He said that he thought he saw some guinea hen eggs the other day. I have never seen any, so I told him the next time he sees some, to come and let me know. It wasn't even fifteen minutes later when something really cool happened! Nathan turned on the watering system to my flower garden yesterday. We forgot to turn it off, so he went to turn it off this morning. As he was turning it off, I walked up beside the flower garden and noticed that someone or something's had trampled one side of my flower bed. Needless to say, I was NOT happy. So I walked around to check the other side of the flower bed and I found where the guinea hens made a nest and laid three eggs! I was so excited! I ran to go get Avery and Savanah to show them. Before we left for church tonight, we saw a different hen laying on the nest and we counted four eggs! By the time we got home from potluck and volley ball this evening, we had FIVE eggs! I looked the information up on line and their gestation time is 26-28 days. So hopefully, we might have some away chicks by the end of the month, Lord willing! Life never slows down for us Cogburns!

Well, I'm very sleepy and I'm having a difficult time typing. I had better turn in. Praying Gods love and blessing on you. Take care and rest well.

Jordan's Sick...

Good evening to all! How are you? I want to encourage you to leave comments and ask questions. I'd love to hear from you!

We had an extremely busy day today. Wait a minute...we started off by sleeping in (around 7:30)! I set my coffee maker to brew at 7:00, so I woke up to smelling freshly brewed coffee! I love it when I make time the night before and set it to brew before I wake up!

I made me a tall cup of mocha and sat down with Nathan and Leslie to enjoy it! Nathan left to go to the local nursery to pick up some more trees and bushes while Leslie and I made breakfast. Darin and Dakota left the house around 6:30 to go golfing today.

Leslie and I fried up some real bacon (Jordan wanted a break from turkey bacon)! I made toast while Leslie scrambled some eggs. She also made a fresh fruit salad which was absolutely yummy!

Aaron, Jordan and I went outside to get started on the garden while Nathan got home and grabbed some breakfast. Aaron and worked on getting all the blackberry bushes transplanted to the correct row outside the garden and then getting the rest of the raspberry plants transplanted as well.

Tonya and Chad (Nathan's brother and his wife) are in the process of building a house and they started raising walls today. Tonya and her mom, Kay, provided a wonderful lunch. After lunch, Aaron, Nathan and I hopped back in the truck and drove over to the Schwebach's farm. We dug up quite a few stray raspberry plants and a blackberry plant.

As soon as we got home, Aaron and I got busy planting the plants from the Schwebach's. Nathan, Jordan, Peyton, Dakota, Cayden, Haven and Avery helped Nathan lay out all the drop hose and got the garden prepped.

Tonya provided supper again to night, but we moved it over to my house. I made some asparagus and desserts. Leslie made a really good dessert...coconut strawberry tres leches truffle. I also made coconut ice cream to go along with it!

About two hours before supper, Jordan started complaining of his stomach hurting. He complained of it last Sunday, but nothing came of it. This afternoon at lunch, Tonya ran out of pickles and Jordan thought it'd be a great idea to just drink the pickle juice from the jar. I'm not real sure how much he drank, but I think it was quite a bit. We thought he was just feeling the consequences of drinking that stuff. He ended up getting sick after we got done with dinner. We thought he got rid of the pickle juice and would start to feel better. He just threw up again a little bit ago. He has a slight fever 99.2. He usually runs about 97.8. Poor guy! He really is trying to be a trooper about it though!

I am praying he gets over it quickly and that NONE of us get it! Nathan can't afford to be sick. Aaron, Jordan and I leave Thursday morning for karate camp...we CAN'T get sick...we're not allowed!

Oh well...

In other news, Lily, our baby cria (baby alpaca) is now 12 days old!!! She is strong and healthy!! We are so very happy! I am just thrilled to look out across the pasture and see a baby alpaca running around! The other momma hasn't had her baby yet, but we're still watching her.

Well, I am tired and want to get some sleep. Please pray for Jordan to get over this quickly and that the rest of us don't get it! Thank you so much! May God bless you and good night!