"Nicky... I dragged out the hot air balloon and cranked up the grill. Got lots of BBQ chicken done up Texas style. Fresh lemons on the tree for lemonade and other fresh fruits for everyone to enjoy. Bring the kiddies for the carousel and the sandbox. Everyone's welcome!" - Your friend and neighbor, Ruth.

Isn't that so sweet! Well, we just got back and had a great time! Her new digs look great! When we got there, a cute little "mechanical beckoning cat" was waving us in. The first thing we noticed was the pretty flower walkway that led up to the door. Pink, yellow, and white roses with even a few morning glories as well. All the colors of the rainbow! Marie really loved how they smelled as we walked up. She also liked the pretty red Gulmohar tree she had in the front yard. She said she had that shipped in all the way from India!

Her place is very kid-friendly. It was a good thing we brought a few nieces and nephews with us because she had a sand box in the front yard and a really fun-looking merry-go-round in a small park right next to the house. There was plenty of room near the merry-go-round for the kids to play and they loved the hot air balloon. They wanted to go for a ride right when they saw it, so we loaded everybody in the big basket for a quick ride around the farm before the sun went down.

The kids were anxious to see more of her farm from the air because they wanted to see her famous "alien" cows. On the drive over I told them she had "alien" cows and they didn't believe me. I told them yep, not only does she have them, but sometimes they disappear at night and fly back to their home planet. Course I made that part up just to make it more interesting for 'em, but it sure was nice when we flew over the alien cows in the balloon. You shoulda seen those kids. Their mouths dropped open in awe. Hehe. "See, I told ya!"

All in all, we had a great time visiting Ruth's farm, and she and her husband were just as hospitable as ever. As we were leaving I noticed a sign that said "Watch your step. Reconstruction zone!" So I guess Ruth has big plans for the future. Can't wait to visit again in the summer and see what she'll have in store for us then. Thanks, Ruth!

Good night, y'all!

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So since we've been having so much success on the farm with all our crops and animals, I decided to go ahead and buy us a beautiful farm house. And get this. Since the economy is kinda down these days and nobody is buying houses, the mortgage man threw in a free black cottage to go along with our new house. That was nice of him, wasn't it?

It was a lot of work since we had to move our other cottage, but we hired us a huge crew the size of one of those crews on that TV show "Home Makeover" and they helped us get it done pretty fast. They did a great job moving the old cottage and they made it over to be more of a guest house in the process. They also did an awesome job of building the black cottage and a great-looking farm house. Misty the cat loves it! We built her a nice cat condo since we have some extra room now. Marie loves it for the huge new kitchen and I love it because I have room for a pool table upstairs.

Pretty soon we'll have a fun house-warming party. Maybe close to St. Patty's day. That way it'll be lucky!

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Changing the subject entirely, did you know that we collect things on the farm? Yep, we have collections of all kinds of things, like bugs, kitsch for the kitchen, butterflies and feathers. Some things we collect just for fun, but other things have functional uses like our gardening tools. Now I don't know why, but for some reason, we can never seem to keep a simple pair of shears around. I think it may be because no matter how much I lecture to Marie about keeping them in the shed where they belong, she's always carrying them into the house. Here's a pair I found just sitting on the couch the other day. Now what was she planning on doing with these things inside the house? Your guess is as good as mine.

In other big news, we recently made a HUGE purchase. A new farm house! I wanted to show off our new house in this journal entry but Marie said she wants to decorate around it a little more first before I take pictures, so I guess we'll save that for a later time. Y'all have a great weekend and we'll talk to ya later!

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He was in an especially good mood because his son recently built him an electronic dove house that he can operate remotely and let the doves out when he presses a button. He wants to try it out at an actual wedding soon, but he wants to paint it first.

While we were visiting he told us a funny story about another friend of his that also raises doves in Texas. He said that this friend took 50 doves to Arizona once, let them go, and all but THREE found their way back to Texas! Can you believe that? I guess I always knew that pigeons and doves had excellent "homing" abilities but I'd never heard a story quite like that one.

Doves and pigeons are in the same family of bird; Columbidae. An interesting fact about one of the famous distinct species of pigeons, the "Passenger" pigeon, is that it used to be the most numerous species of bird on earth. A famous 19th-century ornithologist said he observed 2 BILLION birds in ONE flock. You know it had to be a while ago when that happened because who has the time to count two billion of ANYTHING these days?

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Oh, my goodness! Sorry for the sneeze, but I'm trapped here on Valentine's day, in ALL these flowers! Heck, I can barely see my way around 'em! But they're oh so pretty. Hey, look behind me! For fun and to impress the Mrs., I built us a little mini Eiffel tower back there. Ain't that romantical? I also found a little "Love Ewe". Well, by definition, she ain't so little, but she is really cute.

Maybe later today Marie and I will have us a nice little picnic underneath the Eiffel tower. We'll have sandwiches and wine and maybe a few chocolates. And the great thing is that if we feel Mother Nature callin' us, the outhouse is right over yonder. Hehe! I knew there was a reason I haven't moved that outhouse yet.

I hope y'all have as nice a Valentine's day as we're gonna have and a love-filled week. Until next time, Au revoir!

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We had a big snow that started early this morning and as I was on my way back from the market, I saw something that looked a little strange. So I pulled over to check it out and I found a jar of caramel ice cream topping on top of a fire hydrant. Now don't that beat all? The label says "Hot Caramel Topping", but it wasn't too hot sittin' on top a that snowy hydrant.

I didn't know whether to take it or leave it, but I had no idea how long it had been there so I just decided to take a picture of it and head on. I'm sure whoever left it there will be back to pick it up as soon as they remember that caramel is a topping for ice cream and not a fire hydrant. I've made that mistake too.

In other news, I had a funny dream the other night. I dreamt that Nicky Hilton, that famous Hollywood debutant was a farmer just like me and she came to visit my farm. She liked it so much she gave me a Valentine's day present called an "Unwither ring". She said that as long as I wore that ring, none of my crops would ever wither again. Hee hee! Imagine that! Dreams are funny, ain't they?

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At the NickSilly farm, we love spreading kindness and joy to everyone, so we picked yellow roses as our first and biggest flower crop of the year. What better way to make friends than to give everybody that comes by a big ole' bouquet of yellow roses, right?

While we're working we like to hum the song "The Yellow Rose of Texas". It's the unofficial state song of Texas. The song tells the story of a young woman who seduced General Santa Anna way back in the 1830's and enabled Texans to win the battle of San Jacinto, which ultimately led to our independence from Mexico. Now I don't know how much of that is true but it's a fun little song to sing. I especially like the last chorus:

Oh! now I'm going to find her, for my heart is full of woe,
And we'll sing the song together, that we sung so long ago;
We'll play the banjo gaily, and we'll sing the songs of yore,
And the yellow rose of Texas shall be mine for evermore.

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I just got back from the market today with a few (well, actually 16) fresh new hooves for the farm. They're special cows that are supposed to help me to keep order on the farm. They look like football referees and come with whistles instead of cow bells. I placed them strategically around the farm where my biggest populations of bulls and cows like to congregate. I also put this one in the middle just for show. So far I can't tell if they're making much of a difference, but I guess the real test will come during the night when some of them get restless.

I doubt they'll have much of an effect on the bulls, because they're just honery all the time. Hopefully the calming effect they have on the cows will carry over and keep the bulls calmer too, though. Plus the calves seem to be taking to them really well. I think it's mostly because they like their silly colors and whistles. I'm pretty sure I've seen a calf or two act up just to get them to blow their whistle. Those little ones, I tell ya.

In other farm news, we built a brand new horse barn! We also have some beautiful "Yellow Roses of Texas" comin' up. Stay tuned for those stories in future journal entries. Have a great weekend and go Colts!

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Look at Mr. Wilkens over there. He's getting into the apples. But who can blame him? They're good apples! I'll get the ass out of the apples in a second, but hey, so how does everything look? I'm a little worried about the placement of that one grill underneath the pigeon coop. I'll probably have to move that before we start throwing food on it. I'm not planning no serving pigeon poop burgers.

I brought the harvest table out of storage. The football tree is pretty cool, huh? It started out as a grapefruit tree and I did my best "Edward Scissorhands" job on it. Came out pretty nice, huh? I moved the fruit stand over next to the house so people can enjoy some fruit while they watch the game. It's one of the few times we won't be selling from it.

So who are you pulling for? I'm for the Colts but I think most of my friends are for the Saints. Should be a good game!

Well, I gotta go clean out the bird bath and take care of Mr. Wilkens. I'd like to get rid of those darn pink flamingos but I'm afraid of what the little woman would do to me. She loves 'em. Take it easy!

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If you didn't know, Durian fruit smells like pig-shit, turpentine and onions garnished with a gym sock. It's not good. And it tastes worse! Well, to me at least. Of course, there are a lot of people who love it, but I just can't stomach it myself. Plus after you eat it your breath smells like Hurricane Katrina. I say no thanks!

Anyway, let's open a few gifts and see what we get. I even put a few of the new "mystery gifts" under the tree, too. When we're done, would you mind helping me move some pigs over here? Some of the Durian fruit has fallen off the tree and they love the stuff. Thanks!

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These things are so big they'd make a nice home for some of my cats! When I saw how big they were getting I really started to worry that my regular harvester wouldn't be able to handle them. It did, though, but not without some major damage. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have to buy a new one once we harvest the last of these monsters.

One good thing that came out of all these gigantic pumpkins is the world record for the largest pumpkin pie. We donated some to a farm in Ohio and they made a pie that was almost TWO TONS! 2,020 pounds, to be exact. Good for them!

I just wish we woulda had these pumpkins around during Halloween last year. Just think how much fun we coulda had trying to carve 'em!

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I was so happy about where I was gonna put my new grill when we got back home that I almost didn't notice something was missing. Our HOME! What happened to our cottage? I aksed Marie about it and she said not to worry. She said it was still there but just invisible. Invisible?!?!

"Yep!", she said, and then she opened the invisible door and disappeared inside. Boy, I wish the man that sold me the cottage in the first place woulda told me. I followed Marie into the invisible cottage and asked her two questions. 1, why this was no big deal to her, and 2, if it was ever going to reappear again? She said that it did this a couple of times while I was away and at first it startled her but she was used to it by now, and yes, it would reappear again.

So now this has me wondering if that is the same thing that happened to my garden shed last month. Remember when it went missing and I had no idea what happened to it? Well, it never occured to me to just try to touch it to see if it was actually there but just invisible. When it reappeared again I didn't give it a second though.

What a strange, but wonderful farm we live on. Full of a LOT of stuff you can always see and a few things you sometimes can't. I wonder what will disappear next?

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Well, since she works so hard tending to the farm every day, how could I say no? So we jumped in the pickup and headed to the restaurant.

I have to say it was a pretty nice place. There was a big lunch crowd and I really liked the cool modern fish tank that was sitting on the craziest dance floor I'd ever seen when we first walked in. There wasn't anyone dancing in the middle of the day, but Marie said it gets pretty hoppin' at night. We were lucky because Nick himself was there and greated us when we sat down. Nice fella'. VERY Italian. But not the scary kind. :-) Marie and I wondered if he was from New York but were afraid to ask.

He recommended seafood so Marie had lobster and I had the King Crab Bisque. Both meals were top notch. When we finished, we thanked Nick for a wonderful experience and went on our way. We're definitely going back one evening soon to try out one of his famous pasta dishes.

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Yep, that's right folks. What you see here are some wilted crops. Ghost Chili to be exact. I guess you could say this was some ghost chili that vanished. I'm not sure what I was thinking when I planted these crops but apparently I wasn't thinking at all because I went and let some of 'em go to waste. Even that groovy scarecrow there is a little embarrased for me. And he don't embarrass too easy in that hat, believe me.

I think this should be a good lesson to all of us, though. And that is that nobody is perfect. As much as we aim for perfection every day, sometimes we just get a little lackadaisical. It's okay, though. If we go around beating ourselves up all the time for every small mistake we make just because we're human, what kind of life is that? As long as we recognize our mistakes and try to do better next time, that's all we can do.

In that spirit, guess what I planted in place of that wilted ghost chili? That's right. More ghost chili. How much ya wanna bet me any a that chili wilts this time? Partner, save your money.

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So recently we've been having big troubles with the crows on our farm. As much as y'all shew 'em off, they keep coming back. I was really starting to get desperate the other day when a local shamen came 'a callin'. For those of you who don't know, a "shamen" is a medicine man. They come around now and then from the local Indian tribes in the area sellin' all kinds of funny potions and trinkets sayin' that whatever they're sellin' will help in different ways with the overall "health" of the farm. This time the man had these big, magnificent totem poles and he claimed they'd work ten times better than any old scarecrow I could conjur up. I thought to myself "well, what could it hurt?"

Now normally I don't fall for their schemes, but this time I was a little desperate and he wasn't asking too much for the thing, so I went ahead and bought one and planted it smack dab in the very center of the farm. He said it would be most effective if I put some nice flowers around it, so I had Marie go find some of our prettiest ones in the garden shed and we surrounded the pole with 'em. We'll see if it helps.

No sooner had he left than some hippies wandered onto the farm in their funny "peace van" that looked like it came right out of the 70's. They where selling peace flags and what they called a "groovy scarecrow". I guess they must've caught me on a day I was feelin' generous because I bought two or three of their flags and one scarecrow.

Those crows don't have a chance now with my new totem pole and groovy scarecrow. Heck, they even got ME a little scared and I ain't scared a nothin'. Just to be safe, though, I think I'll make sure I'm not out workin' in the fields after dark any more.

Y'all have a great weekend and we'll talk again on Monday!

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Well, you know I couldn't pass that up so I threw on my overalls and headed down there faster than you can say James Dean. This white corn boon we've been seein' lately made it easy to justify the purchase, so I bought me the nicest one I could find, and rode it on back to the farm.

Marie got a little irritated by where I decided to park it, right next to the new outhouse. I told her that was the PERFECT place, because I planned on working on it a lot, soupin' her up and whatnot, and if she was right next to the outhouse, it would be easy when I needed to go. She was already a little irritated because I decided to put the outhouse right in front of the garden shed and fruit stand. She said "Nicholas, people don't want to have to be so close to that smelly ole' outhouse when they're trying to pick out some nice bouquets or some delicious fruit!" I didn't really have an argument for that, other than the fact that the placement is temporary. I told her we just need it there until this white corn frenzie is over. I promised her we'll rearrange things over the weekend more to her liking and I think she's okay with that.

In other news, I got me a BRAND NEW HOT ROD TRACTOR! YEE HAW!!!

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While I was down at the market today I heard one ole' boy say they raised close to a million dollars sellin' those seeds! Now I can't hardly believe they could raise that much, and to be honest with you, he sometimes tells a tall tale or two, but even if he's close to right, that's a great thing they did for those Haitian people sufferin' from that earthquake.

Well, it looks like I've got me even more sweet corn to go harvest, so I better hollar at Marie to get the harvester started up and get to work. Hehe! Oh, don't worry, I'll help her out!

They said they'd just been tryin' to get rid of it, and I was welcome to haul it over to my place if I liked it so much. I thanked 'em a hundred times and moved it on over. It wasn't too big of a deal doin' without an outhouse for a while there when we weren't plantin' and harvestin' so much, but with all this white corn duty, both Me and Marie have been havin' some trouble gettin' back and forth to the cottage when nature called.

Now if y'all don't mind, I've got a little light readin' to do... in my brand new outhouse!

So what I decided to do was plow up a little extra ground behind the new barns and perform a little "sweet corn test", if you will. I planted some out there just to see if I might have some of the same success my neighbors have been having. And sure as I'm standin' here, it worked! That corn came up fast and tasted great! We had us a bushel full at supper last night.

So after that I was convinced. Once we harvested the rest of our non-sweet corn crops, I ordered sweet corn seeds be planted in every plot across the entire farm. Boy, lemme tell ya, it's a good thing we stocked up on fuel the past couple of weeks too, because we've been runnin' our tractors, harvesters and seeders to death with this sweet corn frenzie.

We just got done with another entire farm seeding so I'll try to get a shot of the entire farm of ready-to-harvest sweet corn later today. (I told ya it came up quick!) Look for that pic in tomorrow's post.

An interesting factoid about cows you may not know is that in April of last year, they were the first livestock animal to have its genome mapped. Now that's a pretty fancy scientific term but when I talked to some other farmer friends about what it means, we all came to the agreement that it will just help us all to breed our cows in ways that should increase the quality of the milk, meat and leather that they produce. A few of the more well-to-do farmers I talked to said they're going to hire some scientists to come out to their farms and advise them on how to breed their cows better so that they can make more money. I don't know if I'm gonna go to that length, but I will try to use my good nature and likeability to pick their brains once they figure out the changes they're going to make in breeding.

Sometimes it's not what you know, but who you know that makes all the difference in life. Y'all have a great week, ya hear!

From the NickSilly farm we'd like to encourage everyone to do the same and we'd like to extend a special thank you to the good people that run the market for putting this program together so quickly and for their continued dedication to philanthropic efforts that are second to none.

Y'all have a great Saturday!

It took a lot of convincin', but she finally came around to the idea and we bought some land and got our little farm started. Boy, what an eye-opening we had when we really started finding out the true spirit of all our new farming neighbors. Not only were they everything I was told they would be, they were more! From helping out when we needed to build and expand the storage of our barns to sending us all kinds of gifts from flowers to carnival tents, our unbelievably generous neighbors seem to know no bounds with their giving. Of course we try as best we can to return the favors, but I tell ya, it's hard to keep up.

Why just last week one of our nicest and most generous neighbors, the Williamson's, sent us some Starfruit tree jam they had jarred up during the fall. Cheryl has been one of our nicest and sweetest neighbors since the beginning and said it was no problem because she gets it from her other friends down Florida way. All I said to her was that I might like tryin' that sometime and she sent some to us lickity split! Whatta ya know about that?

Great neighbors like them and the Covington's, with all of Ruth's constant compliments about how well we're doing and how nice and cordial we are is making every day a new and enriching experience.

Other farmers that help to make every day fun are Edward, Steffen, Haley, Misty, Vicky, Oliver, Dylan, the Indigo girls, Leticia, Sabine, James, Debra, Lindsey, Tony, Dulcimary, Gin, Jill, Ben, Joy, Margo, Julie, Tuty, Jarred, Sam, Victoria, Ivana, Dinah, and all the rest! Haha, I feel like I'm at the Academy Awards and afeered to leave anyone out. If I did, I'm sorry, but please know I appreciate everyone and all the kindness they've bestowed upon our farm.

This location worked out nicely for us because Marie can't live without getting up and checking on all her precious chickens every day. She loves gatherin' up all the eggs, feedin' 'em, pettin' 'em and all that. I swear that woman has an unhealthy affection for that poultry! I don't know how Misty the Cat feels about the move because you can tell she don't like those chickens one bit. I guess we'll have to try to keep her inside more.

Personally, I like where we're living now because we're right near my new favorite place on the farm, the Starfruit tree field. We've been working pretty hard recently to acquaint ourselves with as many new surrounding farms as possible and this, coupled with the fact that Starfruit trees are all the rage, has manifested itself in a huge collection of trees on our farm. All told, I think we have around 30 of them now. It's a job taking care of them since they have to be watered more often but it's worth it if you ask me. Starfruit is like no other fruit you've ever tasted and they have the added benefit of not having to be peeled. You just pick 'em off the tree, wash 'em off, and eat the whole thing! How great is that?

Speaking of trees, I better get back at it. Y'all have a great day and we'll talk again tomorrow!

So here's a late night fist pump in your general direction, Mr. Wilkens, for all you do for the farm.

In other news, we had a blackout on the farm Sunday night. We're still having some trouble with the electicity in one of the new barns we just built and unfortunately it's the one where we have our computers. Computers are very necessary to run modern day farms, so we've been sufferin' somethin' awful these past couple of days. I had to go up north and borrow my brother's Internet until I can get the electician out here to get it fixed Wednesday. It's okay, though, because I always love visiting my brother and his wife and new son. They're city folk but I don't hold that against 'em. They're always very cordial and accomodating and Amy always cooks up the best dinners.

Okay, well, Marie just called from the farm and said we got some corn that needs harvestin'. So I need to get on the horn and have old man up and tell her what to do. Y'all take it easy and I'll see ya tomorrow.

I was worried about 'em at first, but we kept at it and don't ya know our efforts paid off. They're looking as beautiful as the man promised. I'm pretty excited about presenting some of the first fruits of this kind at the market today and I know I'll sell a bunch because everyone is so happy about the Cowboys playoff win yesterday.

Y'all have a great Sunday and a prosperous week!

This year we all talked about it at the regional farmer's meetin' and a few other farmers had the idea of everybody helpin' everybody else out with some barn expansions. I thought it was a great idea because one of main reasons I'd been so reluctant to build even one barn on my property was the fact that we never seem to have much room in them to store things. Apparently many farmers are "expansion experts" and know a lot more about storing winter decorations more efficiently than I do. Plus they said that any farmer that participated in the overall expansion of barns and even tool sheds on other farms besides his own would be paid a fare share. That was all I needed to hear to be on board with the plan.

So far this year, the expansion has worked out really well here at the ole' NickSilly farm. I was a little relunctant at first and only invested in one barn, but I made so much working at other farms that I had enough to not only buy 2 more barns, but two more tool sheds as well. We went from being able to store a very small amount of our holiday stuff to all of it with room left over!

Well, I hope y'all had as much success with this new barn expansion as we've had and we'll see ya around. I gotta go prepare for my big Cowboys playoff watchin' party in new barn #3. Go Cowboys! Beat those dirty birds!

Mr. Wilkens is our new donkey! We've been so needin' a jack (or male donkey) and Marie saw him late last night at the market and would not let me leave without him. She said "we could always use more help on the farm, right?" in that way she has. I had to admit she's right because we've really been working hard and you wouldn't believe how much just one donkey can help out. Of course Marie didn't care about all that. She said she it was because she loved his "long, sweet eyelashes". So now we have Mr. Wilkens, our first ass.

I'm just hoping our new burro doesn't bray too loudly because we already have enough noise on the farm these days with all the new animals and poultry running amok. We literally have 50 chickens with still no coop in which to hang out. That's a lot of "free range chickens!" (by the way, I woulda traded Mr. Wilkens to get a new coop down at the market yesterday, but don't tell that to the Mrs.)

Problem is, they've been having trouble finding places to stay cold around the farm, mainly gathering near a snowbank or two. We don't have all that many of those, though, so I could tell they were starting to get a little restless.

To solve the problem, I had Pete and a few farmhands help me move the picnic table and our harvest table we used around Thanksgiving to another part of the farm. Then Marie and I sprinkled some special magic pond-making dust in their place. And don't you know that dust did the trick and transformed the dry land into a shiney new frozen pond for the penguins to enjoy. They're having so much fun diving in and out and frolicking around their new pond, keeping just as cold as they want.

Well, so long now and thanks for dropping in to see our happy penguins! Have a great and prosperous rest of the week!

Thanks and have a great week!

Late yesteday she was all excited after returning home from her farm, because she started what the women are calling the "Pink Tractor Club". She brought me a picture of her with her new second pink tractor. I asked her what she was going to use another tractor for when she barely uses her first one and she said she didn't know and didn't care. She just wanted another one. Boy, I don't know what I'm gonna do with that woman!

Well, there's no time to worry about her and her whimsicle little girl clubs today. I've got coffee to harvest. Y'all have a great Tuesday, ya hear!

But while the holidays were great, there was not a lot of activity on the old farm this past weekend. We harvested our last poinsettias of the season but other than that we just kinda took it easy and recovered from all the excitement. The holidays are a very fun time for us on the farm, but they're also a lot of work. We were really fortunate this year to meet a ton of new people who came out for our innaugural winter farm tour and we're really thankful for all the kindness and support people have shown during the entire holiday season.

Our holiday tree is still loaded up with presents and words can't express how excited the kids are to keep being able to open present after present. They must think it's going to be Christmas day all year long around here, but pretty soon we'll have to start taking all the decorations down and preparing for spring. I'm just a big kid at heart, though, so I'm not going to rush it.

Y'all have a great week, ya hear!

I'm taking a break from journaling and just relaxing this weekend. But I'll be back at it Monday. See y'all then!

Yee Haw! Hook 'em, horns!

Fun Fact: It takes 15 Bevos to make the University of Texas "T". That's 37,500 pounds or roughly 18 tons of UT pride!