I’m always writing about how fascinating it is watching our farm birds – chickens and guinea hens - doing their things around the yard. It’s like a little soap opera at times in how they interact with each other. I thought it would be fun to tell some of the little stories of things that go on. One funny thing we’ve watched all summer is one of our Rhode Island Red chickens … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2019
Colorful Nature & Farm Friday
While we are starting to see some autumn colors here, it's not just the changing leaves that are colorful on the farm. One of my favorite fall colors is the purples we see in the asters that grow around the yard, as you can see along the driveway above. They are seemingly everywhere, and the bees are very happy about it! I just think they are pretty. Along with … [Read more...]
Book Review: “Hear Them Speak” by Babette De Jongh
Oftentimes when walking our woods trails with Luke, we’ll come to a junction in the trail. I’m usually thinking ahead to which way we’ll go on that day, and without giving him any direction, Luke will go the way I was thinking. Of course, hubby picks on me saying he always has a 50-50 shot of guessing right, but I came back with “Yes, but he’s right 90% of the time!”. I’m not … [Read more...]
Mother Nature Gives Back
After our rough week last week, losing our guinea hen Whitey, Mother Nature must have been feeling guilty, so she decided to give us some gifts to cheer us up. The day I was working on that post, still refining things in my head while digging potatoes in the garden, she sent us the visitors that Luke has been waiting for. The kind of funny thing was that Luke was in the house … [Read more...]
Accepting Losses on the Farm
The warmth of the late summer sun felt good on my arms and back as I harvested what I could from the garden. Our first frost was expected that night, and while I would cover some things to protect them, I couldn’t cover everything. Many of the plants had slowed way down due to cooler nights and shortening daylight anyway. It was easy to know the still prolific tomato plants … [Read more...]
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