I’m sad to say we (my husband) had to put down one of my hens. She was one of my 3 year olds, a Black Australorp that did a fine job of entertaining us, eating bugs on our farm and she provided us with many fresh eggs over the years. She will be missed much. I gave her […]
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About a month ago although it seems like only last week, I took a journey up to my parents house in north eastern Minnesota. I have been having a lot go on in my head and life lately so needed to just veg out for a couple of days. It was a crappy few days with […]
Chicken Guard
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 […]
Harley Rose & Dottie enjoying the sunshine
OK so I’m going to start off NaBloPoMo nice and easy by telling you about me as a warmer up. If you would like to join in, please feel free to give it a whirl. Just let me know if ya did it or not.
01. My husband is 14 […]
So! In an effort to get my butt back in the saddle so to speak- I have joined NaBloPoMo ‘07 to try and get some writing done on this here web page. I am member 2786 and if your interested you can go here to join in on the fun! Today is the first day so […]
Short Short
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 […]
Fall Song
Posted in Work, Learning, Farm Kitchen, The Garden, Ducks, Our Farm House, Chikkers, Life on Oct 6th, 2007
Hopefully the next post will catch you up on what has been going on with farm life. When my ducks flew the coop and how my chickens are happy to be only chickens, how many tomatoes & peaches I canned, beans dried, watermelon picked, corn, beans, and beets frozen along with everything else that has been […]
Hi ya! I’m back- well sort of. Life has been so busy as of late I just haven’t had a chance to sit down and write a darn thing or visit many of my favorite bloggers. Right now it is harvest time so I have been helping our neighbors out by driving truck, in between […]
Garden Pictures
Posted in Farm Kitchen, The Garden, Life on Aug 26th, 2007
Water Wake Up
Posted in Meme, Learning, Our Farm House, Life on Aug 17th, 2007
When you go without water for even a short while, it makes you think. It makes you look at your movements throughout the day. It first dawned on me when I knew we didn’t have water, yet I walked into the kitchen to wash my hands before preparing supper. You just assume it should be […]