Wellcome to the World Frodo & Sam!

Robin hood's ewe, Alaska, had twins yesterday morning. Robin hood named them after Lord of the rings characters. We thought Alaska wasn't having any this year. But she happened to have two healthy white boys. Frodo and Sam are our first white lambs. The rest of our sheep are basically brown or spotted except their mother. This concerned ewe is not their mother, but their devoted Auntie Arabia, who will have at least three of her own soon.

Tasty

Many people have told me that Crappie taste good. It really does, but for all us to get a good taste we had to cut him in pieces ( he is a pretty small one after being flayed). Also I finally figured out an easier way to flay any type of fish. In short, cut along the dorsal fins and the skin just behind the head and gills and pull the skin off without descaling, (Which is the worst part of gutting a fish for me). Then cut the head and tail off wipe out the innards and fry it. Yum yum!

Fishing again

We went fishing to Discovery pond again, but only for a few minutes so we didn't catch very much. But I caught the first Crappie ever caught at our house, too bad he's not bigger. look at the size of his wee little mouth!

SUPER early fishing

This week has been sort of warm, with little bits of spring showers every now and then. One day was especially warm so my sister bunny suggested we go fishing. So even though we didn't have any real chance catching anything, we finished our chores, packed our things and headed to the pond we call discovery pond. It is the closest one to our house, so we didn't have any trouble walking there on foot. We have three fishing ponds near us. This is our 2nd favorite one. Our absolute favorite is featured in the post: September fishing.

When we stuck our poles in the water; fish started nibbling on our bait. My sister Bunny broke the record for the most fish caught in a day at our house, with the number of 9 Blue gills, Ducky came second with 6, and last me, with 4. Unfortunately, they were all small except one of mine so we took it and Ducky's biggest home to eat. But Discovery pond will not last much longer unless somebody who has the money fixes it. Silt, (dirt) is seeping in because of the cows that have been stomping around it.

Spring polliwogs

Ducky took her younger sister and brother hunting for polliwogs,(tadpoles) in our pond today. They caught many quarter sized polliwogs and salamanders. Our baby sister likes holding them until their smooth wet bodies wiggle in her little hands.
I didn't think they would come out till May, But since they did, maybe the fish will be out pretty soon too.