a new season

Hi everyone, this is ladybug. Mom decided I was old enough to take over on the farm blog. So let's get you all caught up.

It is a new season here in the Dusty Rose homestead and we have been busy. We have been working on the farm, we have been planting trees and working in the garden. We have some new comers, they are goats. We have a mom and her two baby boys. The moms name is Sugar and her boy names are Fred and George. We have a pen the boys can go in pretty soon, they will be with Dash. Cherries and Sugar will live with Jak Jak.

Farmer dad has been busy trying to fix Mom's kitchen so she can get back to baking and canning. She says it's been driving her crazy. I just hope she makes some Irish tea cake soon. The boys have gotten to that age where they just want to work on their cars and quads.  

With Mom being pregnant I've been a lot busier helping her cause she has very little energy. We got a lot done today. I helped plant lilacs, a cherry tree, and we added a miniature rose to the fairy garden on top of the normal day to day cleaning. My horse is being onry right now, he is really really cute and is shedding like crazy. I really love him so much ❤️❤️❤️. My mom said I can help with dinner now so when she is at work I can cook dinner now that the boys got a job at LP gas I have to help more with the farm with my little sibling coming  soon 😌 it is hard for mom relax she doesn't eat alot but she does eat anyways.  So we are going to get some cows soon so we can have the meat for food  I have to help shimmer so he will not go crazy I no he is werid. My mom was pregnant with my little brother you brobly know he very sick 🤢 so now mom is very scared we don't know if he so going to be okay I hope he is okay.😐

My new little brother 💙

My new little brother is home, his name is Kainen and he is so cute. He has appointments every week but when I am not at school I help mom with little man . Mom says she is super proud of me for helping her with Kainen, it has been really hard for mom when Kainen was born he was in the hospital for 4 months and every day she would call and it was either good or bad news. My mom was working hard when she was pregnant with Kainen. Mom would go to her job and work really hard, so I help her now because she need it all and this thanksgiving I am very happy for my baby brother and my family. My dad has a job he makes barrels and he gets pretty good money for the most part. My brother's Ian go to college and Ethan goes to school with me for right now, he will be going to college. They are in 12th grade and I am in 5th grade. My big brothers are twins. 

THE END 

By Jayden 

BYE BYE 👋  See you all later  

Progress

So we did it. We moved from Oregon to Kansas. 2.5 days later with sleeping at truck stops and no showers. ( My absolute least favorite part) We drove through so many amazing places. I will say Denver Colorado was my least favorite place. Wayyyyy to many people. I'm sure it's beautiful but when your in bumper to bumper traffic and pulling a trailer full of animals it's not fun, besides it was really dark so I didn't get to see anything besides tail lights. 

We bought ourselves a fixer upper farm, and so far are loving every minute of being here. The house is almost done and from where it was when we first started the house is looking amazing. We have made a lot of friends and the community has just absorbed us into the fold. 

All in all a lot better than where we were before. 

Now the animals? Well the turkey is molting and the pigs are a little bit redder then normal from all the sun bathing. Shimmer and the goats are out in the pastures looking all shiny and happy. 

The grow season is longer here so everything is already up and producing. The flowers are blooming and the trees are starting to set fruit. We found a mulberry on the property and the kids have been having fun with that.

I think we are going to be really happy here for the most part. 

Thanks for sticking around. I'll be posting more updates as I can. 

Changes

This next year promises to be very new experience for our family. We've sold our farm and we are moving out of state, the whole family thinks it's time for something new. So we have been extremely busy for the last few months getting everything together, the farmhouse packed up, animals slaughtered out that we didn't need, and getting trailers to haul the animals that we're going to keep.

We have found some place that is bigger than what we have now and also has the small town feel that we enjoy. I promise we are not ignoring you, dear readers, and not purposely keeping you out of the loop but packing up a farm is a job on its own and keeping up with all the farm chores that we still have to do. I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas just in case that I don't post anything before then. I promise when we get to where we're going I will update the Facebook page with new pictures, until then have a wonderful day.

Apologies

Apologies dear readers,
It's been a while sense I have posted.
A quick recap of the last few months, we got the greenhouse up and have been getting some good fruits and vegetables out of it. I have some seriously excited farm kids because of some little growing pumpkins.

The farm kids have decided they are going to school this year away from Mom. As much as they love me they ARE all growing up and wanting to make friends. I don't blame them really.

The piglets are growing up so fast and we have a few pigs ready to go into the freezer. Along with ducks and chickens and turkeys.

Canning season is fast approaching us and I will be even busier then ever until breeding time in November of course. I have been canning BBQ sauce and pickles but the real fun will begin soon enough.

We have some blackberry bushes blooming, but they won't turn in time before the frosts hit.

The guys got the lumber mill up and going fairly well, they were going really steady until the tractor blew a tire and now that's on the to find list.

The boys turned 15 this year and are ready to get permits to start their driving training. They decided they wanted to go to the fair for their birthdays so we decided to hit the rodeo up while we were there. Ladybug seen the barrel racers. Poor shimmer is being put through his paces. For a twenty something horse he is keeping up pretty well.

We have gotten 90% of our firewood for the year so we are doing really well on that end.

I have been crocheting up a storm lately, we WERE expecting a new little farm hand, but I got overly stressed and it just didn't work out. So once the doctor gives us the all clear we have decided to try again.

I know there is more but I don't want this post to be ten pages long.

Until next time.

New page for the family and farm

The homestead has an announcement to make, we have decided to move on. The farm is up for sale and we are in the process of looking for a new place to live.

We as a family feel that is time for us to explore new areas. It's going to be sad to sell this place because there has been a lot of blood, sweat, tears, fights, and swear words here. But there has also been a lot more happier moments. This has been Ladybug's only known home. We have grown so much as a family here. We learned knew things about ourselves.

We don't know yet where we are going, but as soon as we get there you will know. Until then we will keep you up to date on the goings on. (Like the new babies, but that's another post).

Be blessed!

End of another year

Wow, I'm a little late in getting this post written up.

All of the snow has melted off and it has all turned into ice patches or mud. It of course freezes every night and turns it into frozen mud but this last week it's been warming up so much that it turns into nothing but a slippery mess.
Ladybug ended up getting sucked down in her wellies and when I went to grab her out ended up knee first in the muck. Mud and water all in the wellies, it was terrible. Score one for klutz mom.

This last year was a pretty good one for us. We grew as a farm but more as a family. My teenagers actually WANT to hang around with us. Shocker isn't it?
In the last year we have gotten cows and a horse, made bacon seeds and ended up adopting an abandoned rabbit, restocked the ducks and built shelters. Went on a "vacation" and a vacation. I will say I won't miss Arizona.

We have lost some animals to critters and gained some helping hands. We were able to get a few things done that we had wanted to and had to push a few things back.

There has been a lot of growth and even more learning. We have watched frustrations turn to pride and we have watched humbleness get learned the hard way. There's been scrapes and scuffles but at the end of the day we all need each other. We have had more connecting with each other and less technology. So all in all I think it's been a learning experience for everyone this year.

Here's to another learning year for us.

P.S.
We have three adorable baby bunnies now from Lily and James.