I now have a new view when I look towards my shop. The reason being that today I had the large, sick, 1/2 dead weeping willow tree that used to stand there removed. It makes the shop much more visible from the road, which is not neccessarily a bad thing. I also had the tree removal guys dump a load of wood chips where I am going to put my livestock watering tank. This will hopefully keep the area around the waterer from getting muddy during times of rain. I am hoping to get Ron Levang to bring his excavator down here and dig up the remaining stump. I will probably plant a Golden Chain tree where this big, messy willow once stood.
Also today I ordered some baby chicks that will arrive about Easter. The birds that I have ordered are Blue-Laced Red Wyandottes. I ordered 10 hens and 5 roosters. Out of that many I hope to end up with 5 good hens and I will keep the best rooster. I really enjoy doing the "baby chickie" thing and hope to expand on this hobby.
Tomorrow I am going to pick up my boat from Jacobs Marine in Cathlamet. It will be good to have the boat home and I can be getting ready for Spring Chinook season, which should start in March.
Cow & Calf
Yearling Calf
"Pretty Baby" calf due @ 7/4/11
Pigs
The Pigs, Soupy & Norm
This Chick Will Be Blue
This Will Be A Blue Chicken
Tip The Puppy
Tip The Puppy
My Puppy "Tip"
My Puppy "Tip"
New Chick
One of the six baby chicks we got yesterday.
Gorgeous Wood
Big Wood from Upper Kalama
Salmon
Kings from the Kenai River, Alaska
Caribou
Caribou hunting in the Upper Skwentna River area
One Black, One Grizzly
Bears from Upper Chilligan River, Alaska
Monster Brown Bear
10 foot Brown Bear from Alaska Peninsula
Big Wood
Wild Horse Creek, Upper Kalama River
About Me
- Mountain Mel
- After a period of loss and turmoil in 2010, I am full of anticipation and looking forward to a much better 2011! This winter has been rough on most of the country, weather-wise, but not so much here in the Pacific Northwest. Spring Chinook season is just around the corner as are the daffodils and tulips - many of which are already up out of the ground. I am looking forward to finishing up a couple of the home improvement projects that I started this winter and am anxious to get going on spring/summer yardwork projects. This year we will once again have baby chickies and around the 4th of July we should have a new calf from "Pretty Baby" who is looking sleek, fat, and sassy from good food and daily graining. We are also starting out the year with a pair of weaner pigs, to be butchered around mid-summer, I hope.
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