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!
55 degrees on the farm this morning with overcast skies. Along the day we’ve gotten about 3/8 inch of rain. We were able to put in a couple of rows with radishes, lettuce, carrots, and more lettuce. Baby chicks are doing what they do. Big chicks are wet. And we have spring blossoms!
While MM and I were off visiting family, one of the chickens cut her foot. The kids have been taking care of her and doing a great job at it! They’ve cleaned, doctored and bandaged her up so that she is healing nicely. Love having the kids on the farm.
We started our journey with chickens and a garden. We still have both. The chicken flock is smaller now tho. We found that we don’t use a lot of eggs and we do not have the desire to process our own birds for food. We can if we have to but we’d just as soon…
March third. Already. Two thousand sixteen. How’d that happen? I may have blinked. Polly and her new baby are doing well. Peso’s eye is slowly beginning to look better. I’m thankful that no one else is having a problem. That indicates that she probably poked something in it. Rosie and Opal are so rotund. And….
I go through about a half gallon of tea each day by myself. This is better than the Pepsi I used to drink 2 liters of each day. Maybe by the time I’m grown up, I’ll get around to drinking more water than anything else. Maybe. I thought I had the best recipe for cold…
It’s a windy day on the farm! The moo girls have had their morning cubes and were happily munching on hay when I left the corral. The chickens are still working on scratching down the mountain of sheep poop. Frosty is their rooster this week. I’ve put the other two in “time-out”. I’m hoping that…