Growing Things

~"Growing Baby"~

Mommy decided that it's my turn to post this time, at least the first part of this post, so here goes! One of my brothers found me busily "working" on the computer lately. I'm getting to be a real copy-cat, and like to try to do and be what I see other people around me doing and being and saying! And I LOVE to be outside...give me the great outdoors any day, over a crazy computer! Well, that's all I have to say for now...I hate to sit still in one place for very long at all, so I'll let Mommy take over again-:o)

~Growing Raspberries~

The little raspberry bushes we planted are coming right along-yum!

~Growing Tadpoles~

Yes, in the house:o) I've always liked tadpoles and tiny toads, (whether these are for sure toads or frogs, I can't say) but anyway they make a good creation/science lesson! And not to worry, they're contained! Here Damien holds baby brother up for a closer look (and for the picture!:o)


"What do you see, Kait?"


The tiny tadpoles slowly grow back legs which get bigger and bigger. Then suddenly one day, their front legs appear- kind of "pop out" instead of growing slowly like the back ones, and their tails shrink. You can see in the picture we have gravel in their little "pond" and built a bridge out of it so that when the time comes they can crawl out on dry land. Somehow they know when it's time! We feed them our goldfish Dorothy's, fish food. She doesn't mind sharing!

This little guy is out of the water but you can still see a wee bit of tail left on him. Shortly after they come out on the rocks, we release them to the wild again, where they can find what they need to eat. I'm sure their wise Creator, who put in them the instinct when to come out of the water, also put in them the instinct of what to eat out there.

Anyway it's a fun learning experience!

~Growing Little Boys~

Here is Damien and his cousin, Jordan, standing back to back. See how big they're getting! They were born 9 days apart and both started out being

pretty good-sized baby boys!

~Growing Plants~

Here is the wonderful greenhouse that Nathan and Chad have worked so much on! It is heated (in the concrete floor with water heated in our outdoor wood heater) so hopefully we can grow things in the winter too.

The inside of the green house- at the top of the picture you can see the watering system that Chad made with a big barrel- water is put into the barrel and heated by the sun...warmer water is not a shock to your plants as colder water is.

Concrete walkways with dirt beds in-between and along the one side-

This is more of a cloud formation picture, but it has the peak of the greenhouse roof in it!:o)

~Growing BIG Fish~

This is a huge gar that Aubrey caught out back!

It was around 50" long and weighed about 15 lbs.!

They have rows of extremely sharp teeth in those long snoots- Look out!

~Growing Little Chickens~

You may not be able to see it very well, but Damien is holding one of our peeps that we hatched out, in the incubator. Right now we have a mama hen setting on 15 eggs, so we'll see if she can do a better job than an incubator!

~Growing a Rock Garden~

Actually the rock garden has been there for some time, but was in need of a little TLC, so Chad was helping me do that--it looks so nice now! Between that and the other yard work we were doing, he hauled lots of gravel! Thanks Chad-it looks great!:o)