Busy, Busy Week With Some Beauty From God!

     Work, work,work!   This past week we have taken down 3 dead trees.  Lots of work but sure worth the effort.  We are able to use some of it for firewood this winter. The rest is going out on the shooting berm. There is still some dead limbs in trees and one tree in the very back that will be coming down also.

This tree had to have a little help in coming down.

One firewood stand full , so had to build another one.

     This part of the front yard has been an eye sore.  It seemed to be a large flower bed.  It was full of grass and weeds and not an easy chore. Friday afternoon it got a good watering.  Saturday morning my mom and I got out there and started hoeing , tilling and digging.  With some help from Brent, my dad and the kitties, this is the finish product ,after a load of mulch covering up card board boxes.  Iris' in the back, then roses and in the front a Rose of Sharon. In the far front corner there is a Colorado Blue Spruce.
     On each side of the porch there are spring bulbs planted and in the square bed in the front planted more Iris and spring bulbs.
     With it all cleaned up , we have a cute little sitting area out front now. The front porch rails have been fixied up and can now be use without fear of them falling over.

      In the bunny barn there is a mob of buns on the floor again.  Hard to count, but I think there is like between 25-30 on the floor.  Some will be moving to the outside yard soon.
     We have a few that like to jump up on the top of a few cages and sleep in the nesting boxes. We go out   there will be 2 or 3 in them sleeping.

Bunny bunk bed.

      Now that's a lot of food out there.  It's feeding time for the flock.  They all eat around 7:30 in the evening.  It's a mad rush to see who can get the food first and you better stay out of their way.

   
      That's a lot of fluffy butt's .  That's hen's with real fluffy feathers on their back side.  It's hard to get good pics of them, but that night I was able to get a few.

     There has sure been a lot of wonderful sunset pics this past week.  Just in the right place at the right time for them I know . But wow.  God sure did bless us with this place and being able to see them.

Until Next week,
The 2 Moore's Ranch

     A few parting extra pics of the week.

An Osprey flying over the house on Sunday Morning.

Them frogs sure are bigger here in Texas!

A tired Kitty after all his help!

Trampas and Betsey on the shop roof playing.

The Week on the Ranch!

      Things are just going great here at 2 Moores Ranch.  It feels so good to have everything cleaned up and To be able to just go about the daily doings now.  There are still things we need and want to do like painting all the buildings and finish digging the duck pond and such. But it is all things that can be done slower. 

        The rabbits outside have so many places to hide in and there is no telling how big the holes or dens are that they have dug.  Would love to put a camera on a Bunny and see what it looks like down there.  When you are out there you have to watch where you are walking or you will step in a hole.  We also leave some of the foliage out there tall so they can hide in it.  They have a hutch they can get in when they want to get off the ground and they have 2 covered areas that also have tree branches over and around them for protection.

Chilling

Rabbits have been eating the turnips.

This is the hutch they can get in.

That white spot is Billy.

     Here kitty, kitty,kitty!  Boy they are sure getting around.  I cannot go outside without Trampas coming to help me. This past week I was planting some flowers that were given to us and Trampas was there in the way the whole time. He is also very curious and getting into so much.  Whether it is climbing the trees and scaring me or climbing up the ladder in the barn.  Was really surprised when he did that.  Don't see miss Betsey much.  She stays around the barn area either sleeping or checking on the rabbits and chickens.

No Trampas!

     My flowers are looking so pretty. It has been several years since I have had flowers like this.  Most were seeds but there were some that were plants.  Love them all.  When I was at my sisters this past weekend I gathered seeds from her flowers and also her mother in laws flowers.  Next year hopefully so much more flowers.

Morning Glories and Zinnia's

Salvia

Oriental Lily

Mums that were given to us.

Mr. Frog under the flowers.

2 Spring Frogs in my pond.

Canna's

      The chickens and ducks are just being well, chickens and ducks.  The little ones are now living in the rabbit barn since mom run off and left them.  They seem to be doing OK.  Two of them are roosters , so they will soon be in the stew pot.  One of them is part Ameraucana.  She has the cute little feathers that stick out on the side of her face.

      Put water in a pool or any where and your friends the ducks will be there.  This was the first swimming pool they had.  There was about 6`7 in that pool.  They are such crazy clowns.

Until next week,
The 2 Moore's Ranch

Sunset pick for the week.

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.