Life at Petska's Place

Hi everyone!! We decided it would be fun to make a blog for all of you family and friends

to keep up with whats going on here at"Petska's Place". I love this picture of the kids "hanging out" under the willow tree. It would be interesting to know what they are talking about!!

This is how you will normally find Mason and Brody on any given day!! They are totally into superheroes right now...and they also love these cars they got for christmas!

Some of you may be wondering....Mason is superman and Brody is spiderman!

This is a picture of Eric and his two amigos....

they are quite the trio!!! Eric has been swamped this spring with work...never enough time in the day! I will put in a picture of the fields and greenhouses later. We grew all the annuals for Tan Tar A again this spring and they turned out really well.

Meet Dahlia and Zinnie (white)....our newest adventure in animals!! Mom and I have decided to try raising some Boer goats and selling the babies. Our first babies will hopefully be due in the spring of 2008....We pick up the male sometime next month. The kids are really having a good time with them...they are very friendly and right now are only about the size of a large dog.

This is our new "goat dog" Dingo. He is such a good boy!! He is a mixture of Pyrenese and Anatolian Shepherd-both are livestock breeds.
I took him in for his final puppy shots on monday and he weighed 57 pounds at 4 1/2 months!! Of course the kids LOVE him!! (and so does Eric even though he wont admit it!!)









Here are some of our 35 chickens...we also have 10 ducks which Im not sure if you can see in the back of this picture. Sometimes I will let them out of their fenced in area to roam the yard and eat grass and bugs, but I have to keep an eye on them or they are in my landscape beds kicking mulch everywhere! Right now we get about 2 dozen eggs a day!!





In April I went to the hatchery and got a few more baby chicks...thats always fun! I will take
a recent picture of them soon. They are now out with the other chickens, but still pretty small. We have one of our ducks sitting on a nest of eggs, but Im not sure if they are going to hatch...if so it should be any day.












Grandma Jeanie visited us this month and she took alot of great pictures while she was here.
I never seem to end up in photos since Im always the one taking them!! In this one I am feeding them some grass...one of their favorite things!!













Isnt this cute??!! We have been going out on
my mom and dads pontoon boat on sundays
and I got this shot of the kids "practicing fishing". We let them try casting for a while without hooks until they got the hang of it....trying to lessen the chance of an accident!!












I love this photo...we were getting ready to go
on the boat. They are getting SO big!!






Hope you liked our first post...I will try and get more on later...let me know what you thought!!!