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Heel low: Entered the Winter Contest Series—Winter on the Farm Photo Contest. :-D Higgins Rat Ranch Standard Splash Brahmas. Doggone & Chicken UP! Tara Lee Higgins Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada -- ____(\ Tara Lee Higgins /)____ (_____~> Rat Ranch - An ACD is for...

Heel low: Entered the 2024 Valentine's photo contest with four entries. :-D Higgins Rat Ranch Standard Partridge Chantecler. Higgins Rat Ranch Standard Blue Lace Red Wyandottes. Higgins Rat Ranch Standard Partridge Brahma pair; eating apple slices in the Great White North...

Heel low: About now one gets the urge to garden...a ridiculous thought because it is down right WHITE season...but none the less... If I started seeds now, be too far along to plant for beginning of June so taken to starting bulbs. These are from last year, March 2nd. This year...

Ah thanks...happy to see you as well. Not alot of the original gang still on here & changes are expected. There never has been alot of the Chant persons...enough I suppose to keep the breed going which in itself is good. Never been much about what was popular & more about what makes me happy...

Heel Low: Gone to BC and brought back four ewe lambs and one ram lamb from the O'Keefe Historic Ranch in Vernon; end of September. It was our practise run to the States...gone under twenty four hours, so still just a day trip away but what a day, eh! The handforged horseshoe in the bottom...

Enjoying winter again, the seasons sweep in. Got our -37C or there abouts. Feb 24th May be cold but the sun makes it cheery. Put up the brass sconces...put an oak plaque behind the two. Looks nice. Took time out to add more crystals to the chandelier...still got a few more to add...

Less than a week to go and Emmy will have her pup. Because the ultrasound showed only one pup, she's not going to be getting all that big. Three chicks natural hatched by a partridge bantam Chantecler! Pied patterned Seb gosling is getting big. Completely dotted on by all. Hail...

Happiness abounds here in Pear A Dice. Green season is upon us...thankfully, finally with some heat. Regular rains is keeping things growing. Even flowering nice in the bush. Bugs are bad, so if the Girls are out, take precautions to keep them a bit bug free. Finally some berries...

Stairs got another coat of paint And I got a nice surprise...the vintage advertisements for our trucks got framed (just one more frame to get when they restock) and hung up on the stairway. Second hand rail got made and painted...just waiting on a drill bit and permanent install can happen...

Heel low: The Girl's dog room is now completed. Commercial grade lino on the walls, new horse stall mats for the floor. Dog kennels were built downstairs in the shop. And voila, add dogs! Emmy and then... Lacy. Both Girls love their new digs (as do we!). :-D

Twined up two rugs thus far...the second gets to stop at 10 inches as I've run outta scrap carpet yarns. Been waiting forty months for my circular sock machine to be made...and it is now on its way to me. Should be here by middle of January. Once you get the hang of this machine, should...

Dressing myself in my handicrafts; from head to foot with a scarf in between. Finally getting some snow...Girls are loving it. Happy to see the ground and plants covered; next the colder weather should be showing up. Has to warm up to snow here. Coast Snow, so damp and not dry like...

Picked up the mattress cover. Be a fun early spring project, sorting and then washing wool to stuff the mattress. Thinking about 60 pounds should be a good start. Did some of this June 11th.

Sent off information for estimate on wool mattress cover in canvas.

Plot tilled. Shop balcony ready for blowing snows. Three of the six 1936 Chev Maple Leafs...hoping to see restorations on these begin next fall. Bought the metal rods that my twining loom is missing...need to thread the ends so I can warp this. Likely start on a wool rug, warped in...

About 700 pounds of potatoes and the plot is now tilled. TP covers all knitted up... Chandelier up in the bathroom. Enjoying this chandelier over the dinner table. Closing in the shop balcony to keep the blowing snows out...if it EVER SNOWS AGAIN! Hauled over my cedar...

Harvested the last of the spuds...jest in time for the white to finally show up. Too wet now to have Rick till the dirt, but should be able to in a few days or so pending no more moisture shows up. Be nice if the ground can be tilled and put to winter rest nice and tidy.

Getting ready to have a custom made canvas mattress cover made for the wool mattress (Jacob of course, our wool--of course!). Take about a month or so to get organized, have it ordered, made. Should be quite exciting! Thinking for the king sized mattress, be about 50 to 60 pounds of wool. I...

Thank you! I am very happy to see you and the Campines (never mind the Nigerian Goats) doing well too. :hugs

Heel low: Hope everything is going well for everyone. All going well for us. Been working 40 years now to set up a nice, comfortable home for ourselves and finally seeing this happen. So many pieces we have not seen in decades are being brought out to be enjoyed. Every day is like brand...