Brave Pickle carrying the bees to dada!
Sunday, May 8, 2016
More bees arrived today...on Mother's Day
https://youtu.be/JgMSkXLEXLg
The queen bee!
Dumping the bees into our hive!
A beautiful day!
Happy Mother's Day!
Friday, May 6, 2016
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Beautiful day to be a farmer...
Future garden and compost pile. Farmers workout: mucking out the lambing barn! Straw gets heavy when it's saturated in pee and poo!
We found a old ice cream bucket and keep it in our freezer. Keeping it in the freezer keeps the flies and smells away until I'm ready to dump out the bucket into the compost bin!
The boys leftovers from last nights dinner
make a good afternoon snack for the hens!
The new chicken area! Farmer J trimmed their wings so they can still free range in the pasture but cannot fly over the fence and poo all over my car, garage and driveway. Wary Farmwife wins a small battle against the mess of farml life.
Yum. Vegetarian baked beans!
The secret passage between the chicken only area and the pasture! It's a tight squeeze for some of the gals!
The pasture is in full bloom...
Can you tell how high the ruminators can reach to get the yummy lilac leaves off the bush?
Do you see where the tricky hens are hiding their eggs?
They are not making it easy on this egg collector!
Enjoy the beautiful weather of spring!
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Almost ready for outdoor living!
The baby chicks love big sister, Norma!
Monday, May 2, 2016
Happy belated May Day!
May 2nd- 2016
Let me start off with an apology and….“I’ve missed you!”
Without going into the boring details, I’ve been having
problems with my blog. Adding to that,
the ongoing, “no high speed internet” with rural living situation, has made
access to my blog a little more challenging.
But… that is all boring stuff that I will not bore you with reading! My goal is to continue to keep this blog 95% positive/interesting/entertaining
and only 5% boring/sad/depressing or just uninteresting!
The exciting news is that there is lots of new life and
excitement going on at the farm!
Since we have last chatted with each other:
-bees have arrived to the farm
-baby chicks have arrived to the farm
-our turkey “Norma” is growing stronger (and more beautiful)
with every passing day
-Farmer J has planted a prairie garden between our home and
the highway
-Farmer J has started the garden
-Farmer J purchased electric fencing for the pigs and has it
all ready to go
-Farmer J has been burning lots and lots of brush (with a burn permit and informing the local authorities... of course!)
-Farmer J has been shearing sheep
-My...Farmer J has been busy!
-Our GOS pigs arrival has been pushed back to June… this is
another long and unexciting story that I will spare you from reading about…
-The hens are laying more eggs again! Thanks to all the extra sunlight!
I hope this quick catch up has brightened your day. I promise to do all I can to never have such a long break in my posts again!
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Manure is in the air
Spring has sprung! The manure is being spread on the farm fields all around us. The birds are chirping. The frogs are croaking. The little one is playing soccer and the big one is hitting baseballs. Farmer J is planting prairie plants in our front yard and I hear his "Weed Dragon" torching non-native plants and weeds, on and off throughout the day. Our first batch of chickens and our bees arrive this week. The pigs come in the beginning of May, just in time for Farmer J and my 20 year anniversary of being together! Nothing says, "I love you" like getting pigs and electric fencing!
This weekend, with all the beautiful, sunny, warm weather...we did some brush burning, prairie planting, started mucking out the chicken coop, started prep work on the pig pasture, collected eggs, moved the chickens to the new chicken area (where they can't escape and poop all over our driveway and garage) and threw in a few baseball and basketball games!
And while we did all this, the cats slept and our turkey, Norman/Norma chirped and followed us around!
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