The Cave

So here are some pics of one of the old mining caves on our property. This cave is so cool and is back by where we are building our house. The spring we use for our water runs along the side of the hill by the cave and when we first moved here we were told that a Cave Lioness lived in this cave with her cub. We don't know if she still stays in the cave very often but I believe that the path up to the cave entrance is being traveled again. Isn't that cool? Maybe I will get to see our cave lion one of these days. Tell me what you think about these caves.

Spring is here

Well spring is in bloom here and it is so cool watching all the crazy plant life that we are not use to blooming, as well as our allergies because we aren't used to the different plants and trees yet. I wanted to share some of the photos I took today down by our spring. The ferns are crazy looking when they are starting to grow and the Irises are everywhere.

I had to share this photo of our female Presa Canario puppy, she is 13 months old now and she is always into mischief. She is such a mess. She put herself in time out after she got yelled at the other afternoon and I had to take a pic and share it after that she went and laid on the couch and snuggled with our morkie Tommy Chong. Isn't she cute

Birds

So this month we have been working hard on getting our stock of animals better, So as you read we got three new turkeys and we also got 35 baby chicks and 2 baby turkeys which are now 2 weeks old. Our hands are full at the moment but it is fun.  Well here are some pics of our new additions maybe some of you can help us identify some of these baby chicks, since we got the surprise package we have only figures out some of them. We know what the polish and turkeys are but the rest??????? See if you can identify them and help us out. The top 3 pics are of grown turkeys we got a couple of days ago from a man who's wife just passed away from brain cancer. Aren't they Pretty?

Turkeys, Chickens, and Birds Oh my....

So it is Easter......Happy Eater Everyone who reads this. We had planned an uneventful day today, just hanging out with the kids. Then our friends Dave and Rachel showed up to our house with plans to go to someone elses house to pick up some stuff from this gentleman, who's wife had just passed due to brain cancer. We knew he had stuff he wanted to get rid of and he wanted to sell off his wife's birds because there were just too many of them. So he told us to have our pick and give him an offer. So I came home with 3 year old Burbon Red Turkeys, 2 toms and 1 hen for $20.00. What a deal. So Jon and I have spent the last couple of hours in the rain roping off the top of our chicken/ goat pen so the turkeys cant fly away. It is so neat just to sit back and watch them thumping and cackling. They are so big. I will post pics when they dry up. They look shaggy right now because they are all wet. We also ordered chickens from the Cackle Hatchery, We ordered the Hatchery Surprise Just to see what we would get, So know we have 35 Baby chickens of all kinds and 2 baby turkeys. I will post all of the pics of them tomorrow as well. Well off to check on the birds.

So before we moved to the mountains we decided that we needed bigger dogs to protect the kids (just in case). We had a good idea of what the wildlife around us was going to be and we wanted to make sure that the kids were being watched when we weren't always paying attention. So we got 2 Presa Canario puppies. These have been the most amazing dogs we have ever had and we have had an array of dogs since we got married. I just wanted to share my beautiful dogs with you all. They have such personality and can be stubborn as mules when they want but they are very smart and very loyal animals. It is scary sometimes that they see things running through the woods that we never see, but that is what we got them for. They have always been gentle with all of our children, probably because the see them as part of their pack. I will be breeding our male hopefully sometime soon. If you ever get a chance to have a big dog I will definately recommend this breed for families. Khaos is the boy, he is red and he weighs about 130lbs at a year old. Kharma is brindle and weighs about 90 lbs at a year old.  Hope you enjoy the pictures.