Animals
collected eggs,
"How can anyone learn anything, when you are all talking at the same time?"
Daphne: "I think pink might clash with my red hair!"
If you missed yesterday's post...
please go back and read it!
We are having a fun contest!
Winner to be chosen (by a team of turkeys) on Saturday!
- Birds' Eye Views
One of my every-afternoon chores is to gather eggs from the henhouses.And every afternoon when I open this henhouse door... it becomes a scene from the movie The Birds!A flock of starlings escapes the cold each day...eating the chicken feed in this house...
- This Might Be The Rainiest Summer Ever!
This might be the rainiest summer I have ever experienced.I am not complaining...it's great to not have to water the garden.But the weeds......yikes!......I wouldn't turn away a little weeding help! Scattered showers made yesterday a rather lazy...
- Farm Livin' Is The Life For Me....
It's hard to believe that all of Summer's excitement is behind us now.And yet in a way, it's kind of nice to have life slow down a bit. Waking up with no required activities, other than the long list of farm choresthat need attending to,...
- Harvest Time
I remain in disbelief of the incredible stretch of temperate weather we are experiencing!Every day is just as beautiful as the one before and the one after. It's as if Pennsylvania has become the new San Diego. Although I know it is just a temporary...
- Berry Good For Everyone!
What are the Dwarf Nigerians so interested in? Perhaps it is the fact that there are some visitors in their yard....some really BIG visitors! If you have read this blog for a while you may remember me talking about goats and parasites. Basically,...
Animals
It's All In A Day!
Just to give you an idea of the reality of having a farm...
(I wrote today's post yesterday afternoon.)
It is 4:30 in the afternoon, Monday.
I have been up since 5:15 AM, and went out to start chores at 5:45 AM.
Since that time I have (twice each) fed, watered and cleaned up poop for 100+ chickens, 2 turkeys,
19 ducks, 18 guineas (ok, I didn't clean up any duck or guinea poop!)
2 pigs, 2 donkeys, 5 horses, 18 goats (no, I didn't pick up goat poop...it's too small!) ....
fed 4 barn cats (twice) (yes, they are completely spoiled...canned food!)
fed 4 barn cats (twice) (yes, they are completely spoiled...canned food!)
watered the garden and weeded a bit,
harvested bok choy, and the last of the sugar peas and planted carrots in their place,
harvested bok choy, and the last of the sugar peas and planted carrots in their place,
raked 1 goat yard,
mowed 3 goat yards,
mowed our blueberry field,
picked 106 blueberry bushes,
canned 16 jars of blueberry lime jam,
washed, dried, and folded 2 loads of wash,
read and answered my email,
and I am about to get dinner started and take a shower,
(as soon as I finish this post.)
The way I figure it...
this lifestyle will either keep me young or kill me.
I am hoping for the first.
The thermometer on the back porch in the afternoon sun reads 120+.
Out front in the shade it reads 91.
From the looks of my clothes after finishing chores, I would say it is
somewhere in the mid 90's.
I can't complain, though, it is a beautiful day!
I have to tell you,
I was overwhelmed by the wonderful comments and responses I received for my contest idea.
Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
I only wish I could send the prize to each and every one of you!
Please know that when I write of "lurkers"... I am one, myself!
It is hard to read everything you want to, and leave comments on all blogs...
so, worry not, I get it!
But thanks for coming out this one time and letting me know you are there!
Farm life is solitary most days...at least from a human standpoint.
Although, truly, as you can see...
I am never alone!
There are always enthusiastic helpers to be found.
I will leave you, today, with just a few cute scenes from a typical day....
Maddie: (while sitting in on class at the Birdbrain Academy)...
"How can anyone learn anything, when you are all talking at the same time?"
Daphne: "I think pink might clash with my red hair!"
Chloe: "Well, purple is my color, so I'm not trading!"
Daphne: "Why is Mom making us wear these ridiculous masks?
Are we going to a party?"
Chloe: "If you think these are ridiculous, you should see the ones the horses are wearing!"
If you missed yesterday's post...
please go back and read it!
We are having a fun contest!
Winner to be chosen (by a team of turkeys) on Saturday!
- Birds' Eye Views
One of my every-afternoon chores is to gather eggs from the henhouses.And every afternoon when I open this henhouse door... it becomes a scene from the movie The Birds!A flock of starlings escapes the cold each day...eating the chicken feed in this house...
- This Might Be The Rainiest Summer Ever!
This might be the rainiest summer I have ever experienced.I am not complaining...it's great to not have to water the garden.But the weeds......yikes!......I wouldn't turn away a little weeding help! Scattered showers made yesterday a rather lazy...
- Farm Livin' Is The Life For Me....
It's hard to believe that all of Summer's excitement is behind us now.And yet in a way, it's kind of nice to have life slow down a bit. Waking up with no required activities, other than the long list of farm choresthat need attending to,...
- Harvest Time
I remain in disbelief of the incredible stretch of temperate weather we are experiencing!Every day is just as beautiful as the one before and the one after. It's as if Pennsylvania has become the new San Diego. Although I know it is just a temporary...
- Berry Good For Everyone!
What are the Dwarf Nigerians so interested in? Perhaps it is the fact that there are some visitors in their yard....some really BIG visitors! If you have read this blog for a while you may remember me talking about goats and parasites. Basically,...