HAVING FUN MINNESOTA STYLE!

Maggie says, "and they think this is fun?!"
The half baked "halfway" house is taking shape.

Fun...Minnesota style

Blake and Jim having a good time!

This is Minnesota's version of what to do on a snowy day.

Did I mention it's 7 degrees out today?????

Hunting Deer in a Major Snowstorm

The great snow hunt

The top photo shows the snow covered trees, ground and pretty much everything less than 72 hours ago while I was on my last day of our deer season. This was taken with my cell phone (yes I hunt with a cell phone so I can text friends while waiting and waiting and waiting), the second one is ME covered with snow and getting more of it by the second and the last is my shotgun. It was a pleasant day and I enjoyed the quiet of it all. You could hear each snowflake falling and landing and actually it was quite noisy. There were zero tracks and it was very pristine. Mine were covered within 20 minutes. Oh, if anyone is interested I never got a shot off. I only spotted two the entire season and neither one presented a shot for myself. Oh well it was a great time in the woods and nature. I had a squirrel less than 10" from my face and a chickadee landed on me! I heard osprey over head and saw a bald eagle. Hunting is good for my soul.

The Halfway House

Argentine LaLado left, Little Tyme middle and Argentine Saltador yesterday morning.


The girls enjoying their new pasture and green grass. I can see them outside of every window from the farm house now. I just love it! They are so far out that they aren't coming in for me, for grain, for anything. Good for them. This is as close to paradise that they've been in. 60 acres of roaming, ponds, forests and green grass. I'll probably never see them again.



Milkweed catches my eye whenever I'm outside this time of year. It is a really cool plant.




The guest house..."The Halfway House" we're naming this for reasons obvious and maybe not so obvious! Let's just go this far; it is going to be placed halfway between right and wrong!

What a week! Here is the guest house now dubbed, "The Halfway House" for obvious reasons and not so obvious! Let's just say this much, it is going to be placed "halfway between right and wrong!" The girls were released into their new pasture. What a beautiful site. I can see them out of every window of our house. I just love it. The milkweed is interesting and catches my eye everytime I go out in the pastures. Enjoy your week.

MEA weekend in Minnesota

Here is Blake with his new "fro" for Halloween!
Poor Chilly tore her knee tendons during a breed check! I feel SO badly for her. She is getting grain, special hay and fresh water INSIDE our big barn for the next week.
As my farm manager, I don't think Blake planned on this being part of the package....at least he hoped the female looked better to Saltador than he did!
Jim and I went out in the woods looking for arrowheads and found these weird things growing on the trees.
We went to a craft fair, picked out our pumpkins, did more breedings and breed checks and rode horses. Grandma and Grandpa came to visit and we had a lot of good fun and laughs. Dave is working on a very cool deer stand in a double secret woods location. His cell phone works so I know he can't be all that far away!

It's Fall (and what we're doing about it!)

It's fall and we've done an incredible amount of work and changes at our farm. Today I picked Macintosh apples...a bushel of them. I piled all my barnboard birdhouses under the deck and soon into storage until next spring. My stud llamas are all up at the house. Why is this a big deal? Because at Ground Zero there is not an adequate shelter and there is not an automatic waterer. Now they have TWO shelters, a 20 acre pasture and an automatic waterer. Life is getting better.

Finally our buffalo are gone. Yup, that's right. Gone. As in not at our farm. Not ours any longer. You know relocated, gone. Buffalo Steve from Caledonia with our herd now has a staggering 300 head to boast about.

Minnesota Minis is building a guest house for all our friends coming to visit our llamas. The guest house will be available for free to our llama friends. Others may enjoy our area for their antiquing, hiking, biking and trout fishing treks and stay at a cost of $75 a night. So those are the major changes to our lives.

It is fall and we are starting the hunkering down process.

And winter goes on and on and on

Winter is still here. Everyone is surviving but it's getting to be a bit much! I noticed the birds are singing differently...you know their spring song. How exciting. Today the sun felt warmer than usual and the kids came home without their coats on. It's Minnesota, it's 31 out and it feels like a warm day to us.