Mel Working with Buddy

Mel decided it was time to ride Buddy.    After doing several days of groundwork, it was time for the ride!
Buddy is just a sweet-natured lazy horse.  He makes a great kid horse since he is so gentle!

Mel is patient and takes his time with each step in working with he horse.  He does a great job!

Our 3rd Baby Chick

The third and last egg hatched.  We now have 3 healthy babies!

The 3 together!

Nothing like snuggling in the food bowl!

Our 2nd Baby Silkie

The second of three eggs hatched.  We now have another baby chick!

Our New Baby Chick!!

One of our Silkies has been sitting on eggs for a while.  Thursday morning I went to feed the chicks.  I noticed a part of an eggshell close to the sitting hen.  I was worried something had happened to one of the eggs!   Wow!  To my surprise we had a baby chick!  It is a healthy little thing and has quite the voice!!
The hen is still sitting on 2 eggs!  Will there be more or will we have an "only chick"?

Our sitting hen

Quite the surprise!

The cutie!

Our first experience with our own hatched baby chicks!  Exciting!!

Our Sitting Silkie

One of our Silkies has been sitting on eggs for a few days!  We are anxiously waiting to see if we have baby Silkies!!  Time will tell!

The rooster comes in and visits periodically!

Proud of Our Horse Man!

Time for another horse show.  Mel did a fantastic job this time!  He won 2nd in cow work; 2nd in pleasure and 3rd in reining for 2nd Place - Reserve Champion!!  Way to go!!  In addition he won $90.  How proud we are of his and Buttercup's accomplishments!

Getting ready to saddle Buttercup

His name was called for 2nd Place Reserve Champion

Selecting his prize

The proud cowboy!!

We are proud of our Mel and Buttercup!!

Tornadoes A Little Too Close!!!

May 9th was a severe weather day for us!!  How blessed we were that they went over us and around us.  Many people were not that fortunate and suffered damage and 2 fatalities occurred.
How we appreciated Melodi and Amberlea keeping us informed after our DIRECTV went off.  Our cell phones were keeping us alerted, but it was much better to hear from the girls what radar was showing and what the meteorologist was predicting!
Family members came up and we went to the safe room.

The tornado that went over us was a Anti-Cyclonic "Backwards Spinning" tornado!

Several friends and family members called and texted to see if we were safe.

How blessed we are to have caring friends and family!

This storm was too close for comfort.  

We just give thanks and praise to our God for His watching over us and our safety!!