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Blessedly, the heat wave has ended. For the last four days, we’ve had cloudy skies and cool breezes. It’s been wonderful, aside from the fact it’s rained all around us, but not here. The heat wave came with a price, … Continue reading
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Feed the horses. Feed the chickens. Muck the coop. Muck the round pen. Exercise Ophelia. Cut two bolted lettuce plants and toss them to the chickens in the coop. Notice they are having trouble with the new fencing set up. … Continue reading
Aside from all the haying hooha, there are a lot of other things going on at the farm. Somewhere last week, I found time to plant 50 sweet potato slips. I watered them in and watered them again the next … Continue reading
Last night, the dog and the cat spent the night outside. When I went out this morning, Mushu, the cat, was standing on the sidewalk in front of the house and staring intently at the grass. After licking me good … Continue reading
As it turned out, the demise of that entire batch of eggs to the vagaries of incubators was greatly exaggerated. I had so many things going on I just left the botched eggs in the hatcher. I was very, very … Continue reading
Tuesday update on Momma Orpington: One of her chicks died yesterday. One of those mysterious failure to thrive. She knew something was wrong with it and didn’t make an effort to keep him going. Karina tried. A little water. A … Continue reading
Yesterday morning, I went out on the back deck to have my morning fizzy drink. In very short order, I had company. The turkeys, having spent the night on the roof of the coop, came waddling over, chirping and asking … Continue reading
So, it’s Friday. It’s beautiful, though a bit windy. I just couldn’t concentrate on much of anything. After moving and feeding the chickens and feeding and working the horses, I looked around my farm trying to pick one thing. That’s … Continue reading
Bobby the Bee Whisperer came by today to show me how to start prepping the bees for winter. Both my hives were on their best behavior. No one got stung. The hives are well populated with active queens but their … Continue reading