Give a man a tool...

And he will tear apart his 4-wheeler.    This is what the 4-wheeler looked like when I got home from school today. 

Parts and pieces were everywhere.  When I asked what was wrong with it, he showed me a small tear in one of the gaskets.  Seems a little extreme to me!

A Taste of Freedom

Now that we have green plants to eat, the goats love their turn to get out.  They follow the same trail every time and usually stay in a tight herd.  Enjoy these random photos of the small herd. 

P.S. I saw some cute baby goats today.  Help me convince my husband we need to increase the size of the goat herd!

Wind Power

This is the granary. It is about 14 ft tall and at least that large in diameter.  We had a ridiculous windstorm the other night and the next day we noticed the granary wasn't where we had left it the night before.

Take a close look at the mark on the cement.  That isn't a shadow, it outlines where the granary was!  The wind moved the building two feet to the north.

Here it is from the other side.

It now hangs over the edge of the cement pad.

Should I hope for a wind to come from the opposite direction and push it back????

They're Back

I saw a flock of pelicans swimming up the river, but I was in the house doing dishes.  When I went down to the river later, I only found one. 

Weathering the Weather

Whether the weather be hot, 

or whether the weather be cold.  

We'll weather the weather 

whatever the weather, 

whether we like it or not.

I drove to work in a heavy rainstorm and by the time I got to school it was snowing.  Then, by lunch time, we had the A/C running because the sun was out full force.  Welcome to April in Utah!

Composting

We are studying microorganisms in my class and so I took some pictures of the piles of our goat poop straw.  Boyd made me practice driving the tractor by stirring the pile.  Gotta love it!

This is what it looks like before composting begins.

And this is what it looks like after a year or so.

Just what everyone wants in their backyard, a nice steamy pile of poo.

A less aromatic and much more decomposed pile.

All in the name of science.

Paparazzi'd

I felt like a paparazzi as I was sneaking behind bushes and buildings to get a photo of Boyd riding his bicycle.  I wonder how much TMZ will pay me for these shots??  They ought to be worth more considering he rides in overalls and steel-toed boots.   Let's all hope he doesn't kill me for posting these pictures.

For Jeff

Just a quick post of pictures as requested by Jeff.  Story to follow.  Boyd took these awesome photos.

More Turkey Talk

Lucky me!  I walked out to do the chores this morning and saw three tom turkeys in the closest pasture. The cooperative birds didn't seem to care that I was approaching. I could tell that there were more than those three, but I had no idea how many until they finally ran off.   My next goal... get a close up of a tom with his feathers spread.