Animals
- It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like.....winter!
Winter arrived this weekend, and we plunged headlong into the holiday season. Despite the calendar claiming it still to be Autumn,our world was a frosty wonderland Sunday morning. Nighttime fog had enveloped every bare surface and frozen there by morning......
- Baaaaa, Baa Brown Lamb...why's Your Wool So Wet?
A day of showers ushered in a cold front yesterday.Almost 3 inches of rain fell on the farm...giving me a day to catch up on errands. Luckily, the clouds held the bulk of their moisture during the hours that choresneeded to be done.Sometimes Mother Nature...
- A Chicken In Pajamas?
With the additional 2 ½ inches of rain the past two days, our total rainfall since Saturday is 5 ½ inches. We are soggy...so soggy that the ducks don't feel the need to be in the pond. Honestly, we have all enjoyed the break from the sun and...
- Sundays
Sundays are such special days on the farm... usually reserved for time with family. The days are much the same... morning chores followed by a huge farm breakfast.This weeks menu included Greek (duck egg) omelets, local bacon, fresh blueberries...
- Rainy Day Projects
Warm weather arrived suddenly this week. Several days of warm, dry, sunny days made watering necessary. By the end of the week, our four rain barrels were completely empty. Finally, today it is raining....a good steady soft rain. The kind of rain that...
Animals
Rainy Weekend Fun
A gift of 3 inches of rain this weekend gave me the opportunity to
tackle some indoor activities that are on my "to do" list.
We will be having 50+ young adults camping on the farm after the wedding,
so I decided that homemade pecan sticky buns would be a fun breakfast
to serve everyone the next morning.
So, Saturday the flour was flying as we finished 6 delicious pans of
pecan sticky buns (the goo and the nuts are beneath the cinnamon rolls.)
I have concocted a recipe that is a combination of three different recipes.
It is a sweet yeast dough that is spread with a butter/cinnamon/nut mix
then rolled into a log, cut into pinwheels, and baked atop a gooey caramelized nutty mixture.
(These are over-the-top delicious!)
I have three more pans to make.
We also made 40 pizza crusts and have another 40 to go.
Rain is a wonderful thing...it cuts the outdoor work in half...not having the watering to do!
And although it makes the grass and the weeds grow...
it also plumps up the fruit, helping to make an excellent fruit harvest!
And although it makes the grass and the weeds grow...
it also plumps up the fruit, helping to make an excellent fruit harvest!
There are two little gals on the farm who don't know enough to get in out of the rain,
and spent quite a bit of the weekend with soggy coats!
Perhaps we need some rain gear for the lambs...
after all, we don't want their wool to shrink!
Sunday we enjoyed a baby shower for our expectant parents Andy and Ashley...
(granddaughter due in August).
In between showers we harvested a load of lettuce from the garden...
and got a little silly....
- It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like.....winter!
Winter arrived this weekend, and we plunged headlong into the holiday season. Despite the calendar claiming it still to be Autumn,our world was a frosty wonderland Sunday morning. Nighttime fog had enveloped every bare surface and frozen there by morning......
- Baaaaa, Baa Brown Lamb...why's Your Wool So Wet?
A day of showers ushered in a cold front yesterday.Almost 3 inches of rain fell on the farm...giving me a day to catch up on errands. Luckily, the clouds held the bulk of their moisture during the hours that choresneeded to be done.Sometimes Mother Nature...
- A Chicken In Pajamas?
With the additional 2 ½ inches of rain the past two days, our total rainfall since Saturday is 5 ½ inches. We are soggy...so soggy that the ducks don't feel the need to be in the pond. Honestly, we have all enjoyed the break from the sun and...
- Sundays
Sundays are such special days on the farm... usually reserved for time with family. The days are much the same... morning chores followed by a huge farm breakfast.This weeks menu included Greek (duck egg) omelets, local bacon, fresh blueberries...
- Rainy Day Projects
Warm weather arrived suddenly this week. Several days of warm, dry, sunny days made watering necessary. By the end of the week, our four rain barrels were completely empty. Finally, today it is raining....a good steady soft rain. The kind of rain that...