Squirrel Approved!

The squirrel approves of the new BIRD feeder!

A long day!

Today was the day! We had been waiting for the Willowview consignment auction for a while now.  Guys at Ray's work had told us of the great deals they always found there so we were stooked.

After a long day, our feet are sore and we have a stock trailer, approx 1/2 mile of buffalo fence and posts, a 1200 gal water tank, a Honda lawn mower, washer and dryer plus misc tools and I got thea butter churner! 
Long day though, didn't get home till 10.

New toy

Ray loves his new toy!! Time to water the new trees and bushes.  It is going to make it so much easier than trying to drag jugs or a hose over to the garden area.

Trees, squirrels, puppies, birds and ducks.... oh my!

Our weekend was filled with preparing for tree & shrub planting, picking up our shelterbelt order and planting. We are still not done! But Ray had to go back to work so it will get done in the evenings and hopefully the seedlings will survive the wait.

Other than that we met the newest member of our family on Mother's Day, she will come home with us this Friday.  We are very excited to have our new farm dog.  She is a real cutie, her mom is a husky/lab and dad is a lab/great pyrenees/rotweiler so she has a lot of great breeds in her!

I have been busy doing some more squirrel message gigs on Fiverr for cash for the chicken coop and that is going well. It's really fun to play with the squirrels and people sure come up with some fun interesting messages. 

Ray has also gotten some awesome shots of the birds visiting our feeder.  Since we switched to straight black sunflower seeds we have had one busy feeder! And all types of birds too.  So far we've seen chickadees, wrens, blue jays, and more.  It’s been great morning and evening entertainment watching all the birds.

There is a lot of activity on the farm right now, spring is finally here.  We heard some bull frogs in the pond the other evening and went to investigate. There was some mating going on and already a large amount of eggs.  Ever since I was a kid I have loved the sound of frogs.  We grew up in Toronto and playing in nature was rare but in one place we lived there was a small pond nearby and I was allowed to go there because it wasn’t too far from the house. I would play for hours with the tadpoles and frogs. So I was very excited to see frogs and eggs in our pond.  Brings back great childhood memories.

When we went back to see how the frog eggs were doing we came across about 4 or 5 ducks in the pond.  We scared some away that is why we don’t know how many were there first.  But we were able to get close enough to see a few and Ray got a few good photos too.

So far this has been an awesome first spring on the farm and we are even more excited for everything still to come.  Please share comments on your spring ventures/treasures/stories. We’d love to read them.

~Sue

Our new puppy - coming home on Friday

Busy little feeder

One of the squirrel messages for a customer

Warning - x-rated lol

Lots of eggs - the frogs have been busy

Ducks on the pond

Earning some cash for a chicken coop with Fiverr

So because our farm is new we have a longggg to-do list and not a big source of cash.

We created some cute and fun gigs on Fiverr to make some extra cash for a chicken coop, to start.

What is Fiverr?  It is a site where people offer to do jobs for $5.  Everything from creating logos, business cards, social marketing to unique gift ideas.

Our gigs mostly fall under the unique gift idea category.  It all started when Ray left me a cute message written in peanuts on our deck.

 Pretty cute eh? We were pretty excited when the squirrel showed up and then it gave us an idea.  I already sell on Fiverr, mostly logo, business card and magazine cover designs, so I knew all about Fiverr.

We can up with the idea to sell Your message in nuts for the squirrels and it took off pretty good.  For $5 you get a photo of a squirrel or squirrels with your 3 line message and for extra you can get 4 lines and even a video!!

If you are looking for a unique way to advertise, to get a message about or a fun gift idea, it's only $5 - check it out - http://www.fiverr.com/mudpuddlefarms/get-squirrels-nuts-about-your-message

Also check out our other gigs while you are there.   www.fiverr.com/mudpuddlefarms

We run these under our new farm name Mud Puddle Farms.

See you on Fiverr! If you want to create your own unique revenue stream, contact us and we can offer some tips for getting started.

~Sue