A Little Less Redneck

One way to judge how much of a redneck you are is by counting the number of junk cars in your yard. Well, I am very happy to say one of ours is gone!! Yes, there is one more but it is way back in the woods and no one can see it. So it doesn't really count, right? :)


We got some help from Liz (who is working for Jeff and staying in our guest cabin this summer) and her boyfriend and managed to drag the beast out of the woods and onto the trailer. I had my doubts and it definately took some ingenuity but it worked!

They used the winch on the four wheeler to pull it up onto the trailer- notice how far off the ground the front tires of the 4-wheeler are.
The registration on the plates expired in '84.

Yippeee!!!! It's gone!!!

Oh, if your wondering where it went, Jeff's buddy John has a big gravel pit on his property that he is trying to fill, so they dumped it in a big hole and it will be buried.

* Note: You might also be a redneck if you ask your friends to bring over their junk cars so you can bury them in your yard :)

No Room at the Inn

The pigs are here!! And yes they are cute :( Which is bad becuase they are destined for the freezer. I can't help it...I am out there hand feeding them and petting them and yes they have names, Tocino and Scrapple. They are pretty entertaining- they make funny pig noise all the time, chase each other around the pen and rassle. It will be a sad day when they go- I won't be around, that's Jeff's job. But I do really like bacon so I guess I will have to get over it. At least I know that will have had good lives before they end up on our table.

So, if you have lost track the Mason homestead now hosts 2 sweeties, 1 sweet pea, 3 dogs, 3 goats, 14 laying hens, 12 meat chickens, 2 turkeys, 2 pigs and a couple buzzzillion honey bees. Needless to say that I am keeping very busy feeding all those little mouths. Plus there are a lot of little plants that need to be tended to. The new greenhouse is now up and running and our first radishes and greens are popping up in the garden. We can't hardly wait for that first garden salad!!

Wyatt likes to smell the flowers...and rip them out and dig in the flower pots. Such a good helper! Actually he has been helping get the eggs, he gets all excited and runs out to the coop saying "eggy, eggy, eggy- get it!" He will reach in the box and grab them out one by one and put them in the basket, we have only lost a couple so far :) He also really likes to throw grain out for the chickens to eat all the while saying "chicken eat eat eat". Wyatt has been stringing a lot more words together now. I was very proud when he pointed at himself and said "Wyatt, name" then pointed at me and said "Mama, name". Lately he has been really into holding things. He goes around pointing at things and saying "hold it". He carried a dandelion the entire way on a 30 minute walk and then we spent another 15 minutes sitting in the woods so he could rip up bits of moss and have Mama hold it.

The kids are getting a long well, Nugget really cracks Wyatt up. He has gotten butted a few times which is pretty cute right now because Nugget is too little to do much harm but it will have to stop in a month or so.

I guess we should have gotten the double wide!

Just a couple random shots of one of our finger painting adventures..or should I say belly painting?

That is all paint- no bruises!