Spellcast Farm and Photography
Farm, Food, Photography and Stories
Coming off a weekend of spending over $700 on animal feed. First – $412 in a whole grain mixture that I feed to the goats, rabbits and sheep (formulated differently for each species) along with six bags of duck food (mixed by
It’s almost 8 a.m. and I should have been writing a story for work but instead I was updating the Spellcast Farm web site. I’ll pay for that soon. Here’s hoping the severe cold is now over and things can be a
Just wrote four paragraphs of meaningless crap and deleted it. Yesterday was a crazy day and I’m glad I don’t have too many crazy days. It’s been almost a year since I put my foot down and made the resolution that I
Two more mornings of this horrible cold and maybe we will be done with it for a few months. I found a new sport I enjoy photographing – but would rather do it on a warmer day! Was only outside for about
In between writing stories Sunday morning I made a batch of sausage soup and buttermilk biscuits. I didn’t get to eat any of it until I got home from photographing an opera competition but it hit the spot then. Ate more of
Not that I want to skip any second that I’m alive but to think about dealing with losing an hour’s sleep and dealing with temperatures in the low twenties. Not liking it. Glad the goats aren’t due to kid for another week
The best laid plans don’t always work out. We intended to work on the siding of our new barn on Saturday but it was cold and Wally’s hands were hurting so we elected instead to clean out the ShelterLogic so the goats
Okay – yesterday’s high was in the 70s but now the bottom drops out. There are forecast lows in the low twenties over the next few days and a few inches of snow is forecast. Lovely. This is what I think about
We put the greenhouse in not too long after we moved to Vale but, embarrassed to say, I didn’t use it a lot. I am this year! I’ve got perhaps 10 trays of soil blocks, all but two planted and growing. It
I got my onion sets on Monday and I thought about putting them in yesterday. I saw the Sweet Potato Man in Maiden putting his out yesterday morning. Changed my mind when I looked at the weather for the weekend and saw a