Cottontown, Tennessee

Brian and I have found a great farm. Smaller but very nice land. It's in Cottontown Tennessee, about 30 miles northeast of Nashville. We sent out a contract yesterday and found out that we are the fourth person(s) to go after this farm. It's a good price and there is a lot of house to work with. Right now they are asking for "your best and highest bid." We came up with an amount this morning that we're comfortable with. Brian and I made the decision that we will not go any higher. Brian said "If it was meant to be..." I'm glad one of us keeping our emotions intact, I couldn't sleep last night. We'll find out by Friday who gets the little farm.

Like Brian said... "if it was meant to be."

Note To Self...

Never ask Brian to melt butter. There's a "You know you're a redneck when" joke in here somewhere! Love you Brian!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! Have a safe and wonderful holiday.

Does It Come With Biscuts?

Mama was ready for dinner! It was chicken with roasted garlic and mushroom gravy... just fyi, I got the chicken from Kroger, not the back yard.

A Beautiful Breezy Sunday

We found William Jake napping in our neighbor's backyard grass.

I think I see a smile on his face...

Farm Life

This would be the only part of farm life we don't like... yesterday morning, Albert and Pumpkin had to be put down. It was the only humane thing to do for them. They both had signs of Marek's Disease.

Monday evening after work we found Albert in the dog house. He was unable to walk. Albert had signs of paralysis on his left side. Brian notice on Saturday that he wasn't eatting as many minnows as he usually does but thought that he was just full. Sunday and Monday morning when I let him and the girls out, he was normal. There were no early signs that we saw. The disease hit Albert hard and fast.

On Pumpkin, we noticed her eye sight was getting progressively worse. In "The Chicken Health Handbook" page 286/287, DIAGNOSIS - symptoms (especially discolored iris and irregular pupil...distorted or blinded eye... We believe Pumpkin was blind in that eye with the irregular iris. Her feathers were not growing back and I also notice white bumps (tumors) near her back side. These are all signs of Marek's Disease.

Those two were the most photographed and story filled birds here at the Seehafer Farm. We will miss them deeply.

Video Man

Brian created the new job of camera man for Seehafer Farm. He'll be adding various videos of the "kids", farm adventures and giant pumpkins!

The first video: "Pumpkin Chasing BT" is about Brian's favorite girl, Pumpkin who loves to chase this squirrel who lives around our house somewhere. We can tell it's him by is short tail, hence the name BT, short for "Bobbed Tail." BT's entertainment is to annoy the girls and William Jake.

The second video: "Albert Showing Off For JD" is of Albert sliding down the hand rail of the back deck to get to his girl, JD! We actually thought he would fly down to her but why when you can look cool and slide down to your girl! Albert needs a little work on the "cool" part but he's doing great.

Enjoy the videos! There will be more to come by Brian, Seehafer Farm's camera man!

Albert Showing Off For JD