I need to get back to taking pictures!
I need to get back to taking pictures – if only of just the farm animals. I get to enjoy them every day. I’ll bet other people would like to enjoy them too. This is a doe kid from 2015 – a
Month: February 2017
Soil Blocks are my Friends
I was able to leave work early yesterday, came home, changed, left my cell phone in the house and went out and made up six trays of soil blocks and planted seeds. I’ve probably got three more trays of soil block soil
I look like Rudolph
Rudolph the red-nosed-reindeer that is. I have a cold, again – at least I think it’s a cold, it may be allergies. I don’t know but this crazy weather isn’t helping. The temperature differences from day to day are crazy. I feel better
I love the rain!
As I write this, I can hear the rain coming down. It sounds wonderful! I just got in from feeding the animals – quickly – before it started raining hard. I hope the goats finished their feed before it started raining hard.
Rabbits in the freezer and more compost to turn
It was a busy weekend. Wally and I took advantage of the warm weather and got some much needed work done. On Saturday – while I floated in and out of the regional wrestling tournament and went back to get pictures that
Rollercoasters are fun aren’t they?
It seems that’s what the weather is going to be like this year. This weekend it’s going to be 70 on Saturday and Sunday it will be 77 – yes – 77 in February. Then it goes back down into the 50’s
Wind!
The wind is blowing what seems like 100 mph here – of course it isn’t – which is a good thing. May we never see 100 mph wind here. I went out early and closed up the greenhouse because I could hear
Seedlings
“To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.” ~Wendell Berry
No till and a barn is coming
Wally and I had a tractor for a while but we sold that a few years ago. We had a push tiller too but that goes, hopefully today. We will not be completely no-till – raising vegetables in what will be 20
Two steps forward, five steps back
That seems to be the reality of my life – I take two steps forward – yee ha! Moving forward only to have to take five steps back. At least I keep taking those two steps forward. Thought we were going to