Saturday, May 09, 2009

An unusual visitor at Upper Clements Cottages!

We had an unusual visitor today - Pepe the peacock from Upper Clements Wildlife Park decided to drop in for a visit. Gary's brother, Eddie, is the manager of the wildlife park and last evening Pepe was sighted on the other side of the road so Eddie & wife Evelina picked him up and , before taking him back to the park, dropped in to visit us. I guess he liked it here and decided to come back today by himself! Here he is up on the railing of my clothesline deck.

What a tail - even when its not open!


You can't tell by this picture, but the colors are spectacular! He put on quite a show for our guests from the U.K. and their children. The children had never seen a peacock before, much less one up so close.

Eddie says that Pepe loves to show off at the park - we figure that since the park isn't open yet, he figured that he'd come here where he would have an audience - LOL!


The backside is quite spectacular too!



Pepe's so tame . . . Gary is petting him here.

Later in the day, we drove Pepe back home safe and sound. Hope he watches out for the cars if he comes back for another visit.


Another critter from Upper Clements Park. Eddie just got a delivery of a bunch of baby chicks - too cute!

Sunday, May 03, 2009

Farm up-date and boys and their toys.

Friend Manfred rented this little digger to do some work on his property and we have two Linden trees that we want to move next year, so Manfred brought the little digger over to dig around the trees. Apparently, if you dig around them and fill in with sand and leave them for a year, they have more of a chance of doing well when moved. We'll see . . . . . Here Gary gets a turn with the digger - what fun!

Manfred digging. I think the bunnies could have done the job with a little instruction of where to dig. There are tunnels around the foundation of our house thanks to the avid diggers!


Sprocket is now a barn goat but still enjoys his bottle - just water now. We're trying to get him to drink out of a bucket - no luck yet! Lexi waits for her turn.

Lexi has had an amazing turn around. In my last post we were so frustrated trying to feed her and then on Tuesday, she decided she would take the bottle - no problem. Our vet told us that sometimes the preemies don't do real well until they get to, or close to, their real birth date. So it looks like Lexi was at least 2 weeks premature, or more. On Saturday morning, she wouldn't take her bottle and we wondered, could she be nursing from Mama? I went out a little later and sure enough, she was happily nursing from her Mama! Yeah!!! What a victory!



Gary's brother Eddie holding Gizmo, Sprockets twin brother. He's quite a bit bigger than Sprocket - you can't really tell from the pics, but trust me, he's much heavier! Ah, life on the farm!