Work, work, work!!
It’s the time of year when the farm is on the way to being very busy, not only with cleaning up from winter and gardening a little but also for preparing for next winter. There’s filling the wood...
View ArticleWork, work, work. . . continued
Two weeks later the greenhouse is full of plants growing faster than I can repot. The asparagus is coming in really good now and we’ve planted our onions and cabbage with hopes of planting the...
View ArticleNew carpet
We had rain most of Saturday night and all day yesterday. The temps dropped from 70′s to 40″s and there is a definite nip in the air. I took some pictures to commemorate the season’s definite change...
View ArticleSaturday with Hubby
It’s been a good while since Hubby and I spent the day together in the woods. The weather was nice enough (40* and sunny) for me to get out with my fingers crossed that the bronchial problems wouldn’t...
View ArticleNo more blocks :(
It’s two weeks into the new year and I haven’t made anymore blocks for my sampler quilt. The weekends have been slam packed with other stuff and I haven’t sit foot in my quilt room. Shame on me!!...
View ArticleCleaning up the orchards
In June of this past summer, we had lots of tree and fence damage from the “duratio” that hit our farm. I’ve never seen such wind and we were very lucky that we had no more damage than we did. We...
View ArticleHeat
On Sunday morning we took off to the woods and started cutting for the 2014-15 heating season. We found two oak trees that had been dead from the gypsy moth invasion three years ago and put more than...
View ArticleWinter stockpile
We’re ready for a cold winter after this load is put in the woodhouse. I believe it’s a total of three pickup loads full. Hubby split it in three days while I was at work. Now we need to put it in the...
View ArticleChilling Weather and Orphaned chickens
It was still dark when I left for work last Thursday morning at -5* and Eddie said it would drop more as it became daylight. He had both stoves going when I got home that night, extra bedding in the...
View ArticleWhat A Day
I’m pooped and this is all you get today! All I have to do now is cover it all with plastic before the rain sets in tomorrow afternoon. I’m totally whipped this afternoon and we’ll probably have a...
View ArticleBaby, it’s cold outside!!!
Yes, it’s wintertime and it’s supposed to be cold but darn it we just got teased really bad with 50 and 60 degree weather and my body is just not liking this one bit! I can stand the cold if …...
View ArticleSeasoned Firewood
Although it’s been cold here this winter it’s been nothing like last year and the before. We only had a total of six inches of snow the entire winter. That being said we still have a woodhouse...
View ArticleA Taste of Frigid Weather
I don’t like being unprepared for much of anything but the last two weeks or so of frigid air gave me a real kick in the pants! We have been used to teens and single digit weather but not with …...
View ArticleFirewood For the Next Heating Season
Crazy isn’t it?? We’ve just about finished a heating season and now we start preparing for another one! It’s not a vicious circle, it’s life on the farm! We covered it up so it would continue to dry....
View ArticlePreparation
Today we are preparing for another snow event in our area of 4-8 inches of snow depending on what part of the county you live in. We like to prepare for the worst and hope for the least. Eddie...
View ArticleSNOW DAY COOKING
I promised a pictorial today of the what kept me busy during our snow event yesterday and here it is. The rest of the day was keeping the stove filled and the wood rack filled as well. The snow event...
View ArticleBEST FIREWOOD FOR A NIGHT LIKE TONIGHT
The temps are dropping fast this afternoon and the wind is gusting from 20 – 30 mph at the moment. Tonight is supposed to be much worse. We’ll have the stove cranked up and the teakettle full! The past...
View ArticleA Little Under The Weather
Where is summer??? I’m cold!!! Last week I only worked one day and on Thursday I came down with a killer head cold and a lot of congestion. On Wednesday last week hubby and I spent most of the day...
View ArticleWe Are Ready . . .
According to our local weatherman, our first snow of the season will roll in tonight with temps dropping to the 20’s, 40 mph wind gusts and snow starting as flurries. He even said we will see...
View ArticleThe Work That Never Ends
The pandemic that we are witnessing is a very real reason to stay home. We stay home most all the time anyway so it hasn’t hindered our life much at all. You see, there is ALWAYS something to do on the...
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