Mud Puddle Farms: 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