25 Dec 2013 – Farm Report
It’s Christmas time! Merry Christmas from the farm to all our friends and family. Thanking God for all his provision especially the gift of his son – born, died, buried, and rose again! YAY!
Spring rains are here. The garden and pastures are excited. 🙂 The weeds and grass are soaking up the moisture and inching their way skyward. Sigh. It has been a busy start to this two thousand and sixteenth year. The goats basically exploded on us. What was I thinking? Oh, right. The asparagus is doing…
Watered the garden today. There’s bad weather forecast for this evening tho. Started working on the fence but then ended up putting a cattle panel up makeshift. I need an additional set of hands to work on the fence so it will have to wait until MM can help. Still not quite sure how the…
Happy New Year! Perhaps it is a tired old greeting used to identify the birth of a calendar year yet it still works. With the hanging of the new calendar came thoughts of what might lie ahead. Perhaps it will be new animals. Perhaps it will be new plant varieties. Perhaps it will be all…
Farm Report: One tray of peaches, one tray of strawberries, one tray of pineapple, and four trays of apples are dehydrating now! My smoker has been assembled but it’s too windy today to cook clean it. Harvested another bucket of lemon drop peppers and a few jalapenos. The jalapenos will be smoked to make chipotle peppers….
As a youngster, I grew up “in the country.” Grandma’s 40 acres was our playground. We had dogs and a few random cats along the way. Occasionally, there might be a flock of chickens around doing bug patrol. BUT, there were no goats, cows, ducks, geese, turkeys, hogs, horses, alpacas, or donkeys. So, who would…
I hate the time change each time it rolls around. Why can’t we leave well enough alone? Why are we trying to “fix” it by changing it twice a year? ugh. Autumn is in full swing around here. The trees by the house are in camouflage and it’s a cool 61 degrees this afternoon. Our…