Here is Cam with Grandpa Park and the International 350 Cam put together this winter. Grandpa bought it 18 years ago, it didn't run, he took it apart and that was that. Cam found all the hundreds of parts in many boxes stored in many different sheds...... and put it together himself. It runs!!!! Pretty awesome. Here is Cam with Willy after the last snow storm. He was trying to get Willy over the pile but ended beaching it there. Then it ran out of gas. He had to get the 4 wheeler out to pull Willy back to level ground.

AND now the cute adorable adventurous 5 little pigges we just got. Their mom was red with black spots (duroc hampshire cross) and Dad was all black. These girls are all black with lots of hair (keeping them warm!). This was their first day outside. Their house is a 8 foot round poly calf hutch. Then we took some chainlink gates, wired them together to make an outdoor pen for them. Once they get a bit bigger we'll put up their plastic net fencing for a large area- right now they could probably go right through that.

4/5/11 we got piggies!!!

Sunday we made a trip to the north shore of Oneida lake to pickup 5 little piggies. It was a nice little farm a young couple had started. A few pigs, chickens, goats and cows. All nicely cared for. We bought 5 female piggies and they are all black. A first time getting black ones- they are a mix though. Father is black (not sure what exact breed) Mother is a duroc hampshire cross- she is red with black spots. All the babies were black and very hairy. ADORABLE!!! They are in the field at the inlaws inside a large round calf hutch for shelter. We'll keep them in there for atleast another week until we get some more warm temperatures. They have a thick layer of hay and straw to snuggle in. They are pretty friendly when I feed, they pop up out of they bedding to snort then come over for some scratching on their heads. We have the first of the meat chickens scheduled to arrive next week! SPRING IS HERE!!! Cam has a goose setting on 15 egs- oh boy! A muscovy duck is sitting on a dozen duck eggs and some turkey eggs. Seems the turkey hens don't have the nesting instinct at the moment and prefer the duck nest or even the chicken nest. But they can't fit in the chicken nest so we find the egg just outside of it. We might just have a duck hatching out turkeys- should be interesting to see if she'll raise them too (or if we end up handling that). I'm at my parent's today watching the snow fall- WHAT? So not fair. Last year on April 15th we were grazing cows (that would be in 11 days...). It won't be happening that soon this year. I'm hoping for the 22nd......