Wow. Times flies. Since my last blog post, JJ and Farmer J are back in school (one student; one teacher) and Pickle has started pre-school. We have had two birthdays and one more next week. J has been helping out with a farm education program (with his trusty sidekick, Pickle) on the farm as well. We also had a farm to plate dinner on the land and hosted an antique sale. So these are my reasons for the lack of blog posts recently. Not great reasons... but I'm sticking with them nonetheless.
As most writers need to stick to deadlines... I am going to try something new. From hence forth...I will be posting one blog entry every Sunday (with some sprinklings of here and there postings at different times in the week as bonus material). For my readers that need a necessary break from the "Mondays", The Wary Farmwife blog's "got your back, dawg."
Until Sunday...here is a brief update on the animals-
Cheeks (a.k.a., "the hurt chicken") is doing great!
Beatrix and Aoife are great (the sheep).
Their new boyfriend ("Ace") will arrive tonight. He is our "loaner ram" who will be living with us for the next 5 weeks. Another mini-van animal transport!!!
Padraig and Ciaran have found a nice and warm place to sleep at night (on top of Beatrix and Aoife). No joke. Maybe the cutest thing ever.
The Rooster is gone; his last day on this Earth was yesterday. J "converted" or "harvested" (pick your favorite term) the rooster while the boys and I were at church. When I picked up the boys from Sunday School, it was obviously that they told their teacher all about their daddy's morning plans. That poor teacher. This morning, I slept til 7 with no pre-dawn wake up 'crow' coming through my window before the sun shone in. Ahhhhhh. Peace has once again been restored to the farm. I think we are good on hens, even for next summer, so there is no chance of a rooster back on the property for quite awhile!!!
The hens are doing fabulously well. The 'pullets' (or hens less than one year old) are now laying eggs as well. We are getting close to a dozen eggs a day.
Only one bat in the house this summer!!!! But, we seem to have some trouble keeping the bees (not the honeybees) outside and not inside the house, especially around one particular window upstairs by our bedrooms! Thankfully, the weather is getting cooler every day which means less and less bees. Did you know that playdough helps plug up nooks and crannies in windows to keep bees out??? A temporary fix but it does the job (and our window looks quite colorful). Thank you Pickle for sharing your birthday playdough!
The Japanese Beetles are back in the house and the random chipmunk sneaks through our mudroom door! Never a dull moment on the farm or in the farmhouse (picture me jumping on top of various mudroom furniture as I'm scared of a tiny, little chipmunk). Oh how I'm letting down all the previous pioneer woman who have lived in this home before me!
That's it until Sunday...Pick Pick just woke up from his nap!
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