Animals
- A Return To Normal
We are in the midst of a high pressure area, and the weather is spectacular. We've entered the dry part of summer and everyone is finally making hay.(Which is a big relief to me as I have so many mouths to feed!) It had been sunny and hot every day...
- Gathering Eggs The Hard Way
Every day during afternoon chores,I visit this henhouse... and this... gathering the eggs that the gals have laid that day.Then over the fence I go...into the goat yard, where I must check each and every one of these goat houses for rogue eggslaid by...
- Super Sunday
This past weekend was an "anything but quiet" weekend on the farm.We had lots and lots of visitors. It was Homecoming weekend for Amanda and Tim, who graduated from a local college...so several of their friends came to the farm for a camp-out. The...
- Transition
We rode into the weekend on Summer's coat tails....hot and muggy weather.Then, a monsoon blew through on Saturday afternoon (horizontal sheets of cat and dog rain with gale force winds)helping Summer on her way;and Autumn made his official...
- I Love Sundays
Around the farm, Sundays are all about family.It is the one day each week that we try to slow downand just enjoy the serenity that country life offers us. A peaceful start to the day, doing morning chores at sunrise.... This is one time of day that I...
Animals
Favorite Day of the Week
Do you have a favorite day of the week?
Mine...
is Sunday!
Hands down. Best day. Entire week.
We usually reserve Sunday as a family day.
We try to always stay home...and love when family comes for a farm visit.
But even on the quiet Sundays when we are home alone,
the day is perfect.
Yesterday was one such day.
We slept in (until 7 AM!) and then went out to do AM chores.
Egg cleaning, farm breakfast, and a few household chores rounded out the morning.
Our afternoon was productive.
I knitted by the fire,
and did the afternoon feeding.
Hubbs deconstructed our winter-damaged platform tent
and burned the splintered tent poles.
We will be ordering new poles, mending the tent, and rebuilding early this summer.
Amanda made homemade herbed Chèvre from local goats milk.
I love goat cheese if it's not too "goaty"...
and this was perfect!
We had it for late afternoon hors d'oeuvres with locally-made whole grain crackers
and a little red wine.
Splendid end of the day!
Our weather remains a little chilly and partly sunny.
The farm remains quite muddy.
The only visible sign of spring, thus far, is the emergence of new growth
on our Saffron crocus.
I can hardly wait to harvest our own saffron this year!
And in the greenhouse, seeds are popping up...
right...
and left...
We had a visit (at the house) from a couple of turkey dudes.
They rarely come to the house, but yesterday followed us home.
I was eager to see how our Roos would react to the turkeys,
but they acted as though they weren't even there.
Go figure.
Saturday afternoon was spent helping our Andy and his fiancé Ashley move into
their new house.
This is an exciting year for this couple...
with a new house and a wedding in June!
How about you...
what is your favorite day of the week,
and why???
- A Return To Normal
We are in the midst of a high pressure area, and the weather is spectacular. We've entered the dry part of summer and everyone is finally making hay.(Which is a big relief to me as I have so many mouths to feed!) It had been sunny and hot every day...
- Gathering Eggs The Hard Way
Every day during afternoon chores,I visit this henhouse... and this... gathering the eggs that the gals have laid that day.Then over the fence I go...into the goat yard, where I must check each and every one of these goat houses for rogue eggslaid by...
- Super Sunday
This past weekend was an "anything but quiet" weekend on the farm.We had lots and lots of visitors. It was Homecoming weekend for Amanda and Tim, who graduated from a local college...so several of their friends came to the farm for a camp-out. The...
- Transition
We rode into the weekend on Summer's coat tails....hot and muggy weather.Then, a monsoon blew through on Saturday afternoon (horizontal sheets of cat and dog rain with gale force winds)helping Summer on her way;and Autumn made his official...
- I Love Sundays
Around the farm, Sundays are all about family.It is the one day each week that we try to slow downand just enjoy the serenity that country life offers us. A peaceful start to the day, doing morning chores at sunrise.... This is one time of day that I...