Stafford’s on the Farm?

That’s right a farm!  We bought a farm in North Carolina, we’ve been here a year this Thanksgiving.  Here’s our little farm house.  A small 3/2 that fits us just right!

Here’s where the crops should be grown, but I can’t get Jane to plow it. :)  

Here’s what we have now, it’s the end of the growing season so it’s a little overgrown, right.  We have some Red Romaine lettuce, rutabagas, Brussels sprouts and broccoli going. The weather has turned colder than normal, in the 20’s at night, so the garden is taking a beating.

We still have our trailer and made a little campsite so we don’t lose our camping edge!  We’ve found some nice state parks here in North Carolina, we’ll post some updates on them soon. 

This is a view headed out the back of our property into the woods.  We have our “Pro Hunt Club” shack out here. 

This is our shooting range.

This is our little red barn and chicken coop.

Here are some of our Buff Orpington chickens, Link our rooster/guard chicken.  Robbie’s holding sqweep our youngest chick.  Yes, most of their names came from Monsters VS Aliens. 



Link our rooster!



We plan on updating our blog more often now that we have settled in.  In our next updates Jane and Jordyn will make an appearance along with the Chubs the Guinea Pig.  Maybe I’ll even let you see our John Deere tractor! Oh yeah!

Running away….

From hurricane Irene! We decided it would be better to leave than ride out the hurricane. We moved to an Army Corp of Engineers Park at Kerr Dam about a 100 miles west of here. Nice place to hide out till the storm passed. We camped right on the reservoir in a large site!

It was a good thing we decided to leave, when we returned trees on both side of our site had fallen, one totaled our neighbor’s trailer! A little clean up and we were back to normal, at least for us!

Robbie’s started playing football in a Pop-Warner league, he loves football! He plays left guard.

I’ve been working at the Newport News Shipyard as an electrician for the last few months on the USS Theodore Roosevelt Nimitz-class supercarrier. This ship is huge! Here are a couple pictures of the ship from our company’s website.

Our new Trailerhood and The fishing trip

Guess ya’ll have been wondering where we’ve been. Well, we didn’t disappear!! We’ve setup house (trailer) in Suffolk Virginia at Davis Lakes Campground. Nice place out in the country, 3 lakes for swimming and fishing, a cabana for cook outs and karaoke!

This is our little slice of the park

Here is our garden, we have some Jalapenos, Radishes, Carrots, Chives, Sweet Peppers and Tomatoes that the squirrels eat before we can!

Here is the the swimming lake and beach!

Now the fishing trip! We've been hitting the lakes for a couple days now, with not even a bite!


Waiting and waiting...


Finally Jordyn lands an elusive tree fish!

Robbie hooks a big one, only to come off the hook at the end! You can kind of see it in this video.

Virginia Zoo, Norfolk VA

Jane met up with her friend Donna and headed to the Virginia Zoo.

They saw a couple of turkeys!

The peacocks are really cool, they were strutting their stuff

A new species of cotton candy energized animals!