I can not get over how quickly time has been going by this “spring”. Yes, it’s spring here on the west coast of Canada, although with today’s sudden snow “storm”, you’d never know! Yesterday some of the kids were in shorts, today we had a sudden storm blow in and bring some snow along with it! We hadn’t seen snow since last November! Just too weird!

Anywho… things have been busy. I thought it was time I share some more custom orders first, then I’ll share some quick photos of our spring so far here on the homestead!

Petite custom order, an ultimini, ultimini xs, regular wrap wing and light wrap wing.

Unfortunately, sometimes I’m not so happy with my custom order photos. They are usually done on the fly before I package them up to ship them out!

A postpartum order, Ultimax,  ultimates, and heavy wrap wings.

Ultimate Heavy Flow, Heavy Comfort Contour and Regular Comfort Contours.

A set of pantywraps:

Another postpartum package, Ultimax, ultimini’s and regular wrap wings.

A bunch of heavy wrap wing pads.

And this was a special custom order done with the customers fabric. I had some fun playing with a black background for some of these.

The black adds a totally different ‘ambiance’.

Love how these turned out. 🙂

And that’s it for the custom orders this time! We’re finishing up a few more this week and maybe I’ll get the photos onto the blog quicker this time!

As I mentioned, this has been a busy time here on the Homestead so I’ll share a few things that have been going on around here.
First off, my girls wanted to learn how to do fondant so my eldest made up a batch and the three younger ones had me take photos of their finished cakes. Not too bad for their first try but they’ve decided they like soft icings better. LOL I’m sure we’ll visit ‘fondant’ many times over the years though. If anyone has a favorite recipe, let me know! This actually didn’t taste to bad but fondant is never like a creamy icing of course.

In true “homesteading” news, even though we plan to put our place back up on the market very soon (tomorrow actually), we also know that homes don’t always sell right away so you can’t stop living in the meantime. Because of this, there was still paddocks to be redone, new fences to be put up, and a new chicken coop to be made. Some may remember that last fall a mink got in and killed the last of our poor old hens. We held off getting anymore, and were considering waiting “until we move” but that gets REALLY old, REALLY fast (you couldn’t count how many times we’ve said the words “after we move” in the past three years!) so we decided to not just get chickens, but a few DUCKS too! The kids have been wanting ducks for years but I had to explain to them that if we got ducks, there really wasn’t any way we could move the ducks along with our five horses, 3 dogs, 3 cats and possibly two rabbits. LOL So we could only get ducks if they understood that they would need to remain behind with the chickens, either here with the new owners, or in a new home we found for them before we ‘move’. They agreed, so we got some ducks!

First, the chicken coop had to be re-fenced, the hen house had to be re-done inside to try and keep out minks and anything else that might try to get in there, and we decided to put a mesh over the whole thing to keep the eagles, hawks, owls and even vultures (yuck they are ugly) out of the run! Some like free range, but we don’t dare around here .We let them out sometimes, but for the most part we keep them safely inside their run.

The kids gave the ducks their old kiddie pool, I think they like it. The dog, he’s not so sure about those ducks though!

The very next day, we picked up 10 hens. The hens did not know what to think of those ducks! The ducks, well they grew up with hens so they felt right at home and couldn’t figure out why these hens we’re being so ‘chicken’. 😉

They seem to get along well now though, although the hens still keep their distance.

We’ve had our first eggs from the hens too! That’s always exciting.

We’re really excited to see what the ducks eggs will look like. We were told they are all girls but won’t lay for another couple of months so we have a bit of time to wait yet. I’ve never seen a duck egg, let alone tasted one.

Can you believe one of those eggs was a DOUBLE yoker?! In one of those tiny things! lol

I made crepes for dinner that night. Yum.

If you’re on our facebook page, you’ve heard all about how our bathroom went from this:

to this:

and this:

to this:

If you’re not a fan on our facebook yet, then be sure to join us! We share lots there and we even ask for your help with upcoming stockings etc.!

This post is getting very long, so I should probably stop here but I wanted to share one last photo. Our “little” filly Lacey, the one born to our eldest daughter’s rescued horse, is now TWO! So hard to believe it’s been two years since she was born and almost three years since her pregnant mama came to us. They’ve done SO well.

I really should blog more often so I don’t have a “book” to share each time I post! LOL

Until next time, happy homesteading, whether you’re in the country or trying to live a little country in the city. 🙂