Friday Five Farm Facts (debut)

Hello there! Starting today I am borrowing a great idea from Shel,

a fellow Oklahoma lady who blogs over at 

http://shelharrington.com/

Every Friday she offers us five cool snippets of information or inspiration.

Easy Peasy. Short and sweet.

For Lazy W purposes, I’ll share five farm facts.

Odd minutiae you may or may not know about us and our little offbeat hobby farm.

Or maybe five photos from that week. Or five anecdotes from the animals,

miscellaneous goings-on, etc. Hope you enjoy!

• The dangerously frigid weather this week has made it necessary to keep our geese and chickens tucked safe and warm inside their coop and enclosed yard, no sunrise door opening and dramatic release. They are completely unhappy about this, totally unappreciative of the warmth we are helping to ensure. They just want to be free! The geese especially (we have five) just want to run downhill and skate around on top of the frozen pond. The hens and roosters are displaying slightly better attitudes, but I think it’s because being locked inside the coop is like an extended date night for them all. I suspect some of the eggs we’ve been collecting could be, ahem, fertilized.
• Handsome ordered new halters for the llamas. All three of them. I find this both thrilling and hilarious, because the llamas have a pretty strict Don’t you dare touch me policy. We will keep you posted.
• We recently adopted three cats to help Fast Woman with the mouse and gopher executions. They all four live in the barn and are beautiful and adorable in every way. They are named Geoffrey, Sonia (as in Sonia Blade from Mortal Kombat) and Natasha Romanov, just because we can. Natasha in particular is a cuddler and meows aggressively at every door of our house until Handsome relents and lets her in. She cuddles, claws, and V-8 purrs her way into your heart then steals the dog food and walks on the piano. It’s a dream come true for my husband who has always wanted a big, satiny, ink black cat to cuddle him.
• Yesterday I saw this little blurb in a local paper and am so psyched about it! Agricultural training for inner city women in order to improve diets, health, and financial stability. Yes! The fact that our city is launching this program the same year I am taking Master Gardener classes is, like, more awesome than anything. I am all over it.

• I am also super excited about fresh herbs, in case you’ve missed that lately. Last night I roasted a huge pan of chicken with lemons, minced garlic, and so much fresh rosemary you could probably smell it from the forest next door. In just weeks we will be working herbs outside instead of just in kitchen countertop pots.

So that’s my first Friday Five Farm Facts! Thank you Shel for the borrowed idea. If y’all check back here this weekend I will have the results of the brownie taste test and a few thoughts on that. Happy Friday!  Stay cozy.

XOXOXOXO