Posted in Our Animals, Learning, Trucking, Work, The Garden, Our Farm House, Chikkers, Life on Mar 9th, 2008
It’s funny how life can change in a blink of an eye. One minute your pushing soap at anyone and everyone who will look, listen, and sniff. The next your packing up a peterbilt with your name on the door and pulling out of the yard for destinations unknown.
OK, so I haven’t left yet. I […]
Posted in Farm Kitchen, Our Animals on Feb 4th, 2008
Every day without fail I have chores to do. With two horses, (one of which I sold yesterday) and 15 chickens I am up and going early because I have babes that are waiting for breakfast. My normal feed times are 7am and 4pm and usually by 6:30am & 3:30 respectively the horses are staring […]
Posted in Our Animals on Jan 12th, 2008
I dry bunches of catnip all summer long, so when the cold dark days of winter come rolling along we have something to keep us entertained….This is what we call cheap entertainment! Please excuse the snorting & laughing and enjoy the video!
The aftermath. Now I need to vacuum….
Posted in Our Animals, Our Farm House, Life on Nov 12th, 2007
Meet Squeaky Monroe. He has like the other 3 cats I have in the house- shown up on our property unannounced and taken my heart against my will. I try my hardest to ignore them and hope they will sleep in the barn happily, but for some reason they always pine for me on my door step […]
Posted in NaBloPoMo, Our Animals, Life on Nov 6th, 2007
Many people have dogs to watch their house, sheep, and cattle but how many can say they have a chicken guard dog? Dottie and the chickens were taking a sun bath today trying to take in as much warmth as the sun could muster on such a cool November day. I am down with a […]
Posted in Our Animals, Life on Oct 30th, 2007
I am still running short on time these days. Sunday we dug up the rest of our potatoes, my arugula, beets, and swiss chard and put the garden to bed with a ton of aged horse manure on top to mingle with the earth over the winter. I planted about 100 garlic cloves for next spring […]
Posted in Our Animals, Our Farm House, Life on Aug 14th, 2007
No it is not a mirage, it really is water folks!
So, we have been holding out, wondering, waiting, and looking at costs for a new well vs. pump.
The last few days of my life have went something like this; Take a shower, water horses,ducks, and chickens and wait. Cross your fingers, skip showers, water chickens […]
Posted in Our Animals, The Garden, Minnesota Weather, Life on Jul 10th, 2007
As you can see by the dust behind Kassy and the lack of grass on pasture we are in much need of rain. The lawn is getting crunchy(er) by the day and the garden in holding on for dear life. I keep walking out to the garden, whispering to them “hold on a little longer” but […]
Posted in Our Animals, The Garden, Ducks, Life on Jul 3rd, 2007
It rained today. Finally, after much thought and consideration by mother nature she let go of a small portion of moisture for our gardens, crunchy lawns, and duck pleasure- although I think they had to think about it for a few seconds since this is the first rain they have encountered in their short lives.
I decided to […]
Posted in Our Animals, Ducks, Chikkers, Our Farm House on Jul 2nd, 2007
I’m a little late in my blog reading, but the other day Karl over at the Pile of Omelays suggested an animal roll call- so I thought I would join in the fun.
2 Dogs- Harley Rose & Dottie (that’s her with the cool necklace on- she has really bad allergies that make her skin crawl- to the […]