WOW! Look at That!

Last week my blog started out with the one area that was still needing to be cleaned up on the ranch.  Well, that night we had rain and some the next morning so we ended up not being able to work on our real jobs. So out we went to work on the area.   A lot of large weeds and a lot of moving stuff and killing spiders it was done. The ducks and chickens are really enjoying the new area to find bugs in.

Weed eating

Look! It's clean!

 We finally got the door and a wall up to keep the chickens out of the hay part of the barn.  All the Alfalfa , straw and bedding grass is in there now.   The kitties can still get in here, but at least they can keep the mice out of there.

WHAT?

 Yesterday , We got out and cleaned up the middle part of the barn and cleaned up a part of the loft. The first floor has no more straw and grass.  Now not a lot of places for the unwanted to hide. In the loft we went through a lot of stuff and threw some stuff away and found some really cool stuff.

Found these really cool drawings in the loft.  From an artist S.L. Humphrey from Silver City, New Mexico.

My tomatoes are really starting to ripen now.  Just a small amount here ,not counting the ones in the living room window.  Also , my my mystery items growing out there have have been harvested. Two kinds of pumpkins!  Did some dehydrating this past week and put some Basil up and then put some Thyme and Oregano in some Olive oil and froze them. Also Froze some more eggs for this winter.
      My peas did not grow this year so when I was at the farmers market yesterday getting flour I bought some Black Eyed Peas.  House sure did smell good this morning when i was cooking them.

The other day when I was out feeding and watering the rabbits i opened the gate and called some of the chickens in to do some cleaning in the rabbit barn.  They stayed out there for several hours and did a lot of cleaning up.

We got the kittens so that they would be able to take care of critter control.  We knew that chickens would kill and eat mice, but who knew ducks would also. Found this duck killing this mouse.  Later after it was dead, Trampas cam along and played with it for a while and then did the rest of the job.
When they are not busy on the job. They are wanting to go to bed in the rabbit barn.

Night all!

The colors in the Tom's face are so pretty.  He is so much fun.  When we go out all we have to do is make a noise and he will gobble at us.
It's dinner time out in the barn yard and everyone is out trying to get their share.  We go out and yell here chick, chick, chick and Ducks, Turkeys, Guinea's and Chickens come running.  Better move out of the way!
When we were cleaning up this section of the yard we found a rather large Guinea nest in the tall weeds. There was about 30 or so eggs in it.

Took our pool down last week and moved the picnic table and chairs back where they had been and also set up an area with all my bird feeders so I can get the birds coming back. Maybe this fall i will have some really pretty birds stop by on their way south.

Back yard

 Until next week,
The 2 Moore's Ranch



A few parting shots for the week.

Planted 3 of the flowers from family.

Fog rolling in

Sunset after storm.