Well finally, after many months I built the final door to close in the barn. Our barn is a great little barn, it has multiple stalls which allows us plenty of room for animals, storage and we even have a feed-room. There are 3 door openings that exit out the side of the barn from […]
There He Goes Again
Check another project off of the list for Michael. We have a laundry room in our new home. I love it. I didn’t have one in our last home. But there wasn’t any place to store stuff in the laundry room. So, for nearly six months this is what it looked like. […]
Frozen
For the past four days we have had some cold temperatures here on the farm. A lot of things are covered in ice. It sure is pretty. The pond started to freeze. Apparently the pond has frozen enough in the past that it was used for ice skating. The boys took ice off […]
Our Affectionate Animals
Michael has been taking care of opening the barn in the mornings. It helps me to not have to rush getting everything done before I wake the boys up at 7:30. I miss seeing the animals each morning though. I went out in the afternoon to visit the chicks and the goats. Apparently Brown Sugar […]
My Handy Hubby
Michael has been hard at work checking projects off of his list. He is quite the renaissance man. First it was plumbing….. Now it is electrical. One of the things we thought would be good to have is a light on the barn that is triggered by motion. If any critters (coyotes mainly) were to sneak […]
Babysitting
On Friday night we babysat our neighbor’s son Bexon. He came over in the afternoon and visited with the animals, watched the airplanes that flew overhead, and poked around the chicken coop. He went home for a little bit to get his things and then came back. He ate dinner with us (Pork chops, mashed […]
Just Stuff
Hi there. I thought I might share a few pictures. Just fun stuff being out here in the country. This is a fort the boys have been building. The positioning of the three trees made a great spot for the fort. It is at the edge of the upper pasture and overlooks the lower acreage. […]
Creating Dry Lots for the Goats
The goats live in the barn. Both the girl’s stall and the boy’s stall have doors to outside pens. It allows them to go out and get some sunshine and have a little room to move around. Now that the rain is here we decided to “dry lot” those outside pens. What that means is […]
The End of the Harvest– Winter Squash
It is quite the learning experience to grow something new. Especially when the “readiness” is hard to judge. All of the things I read tell you to harvest winter squash before the first frost. They also tell you to wait for the vines to die back plus a couple of weeks for “curing” (the skin […]
A New Experience (AKA: Wow, I Never Real...
Let’s just back up a bit. I feel I need to remind all of you that we have DAIRY goats. Meaning we want them to produce milk. Well, in order to make milk they need to have at least one baby. With goats (maybe other animals too) we call it “freshening”. In order to have […]
The Boys Attend an IEW Class
Friday morning the boys and I were out the door by 7:15. Eating our breakfast in the car,we drove an hour south to Albany where the boys would attend an Institute of Excellence in Writing class. The topic was Story Writing. We are at the beginning of our third year using the IEW curriculum. It is […]
New Culinary Successes
This summer has brought a few new tricks to my culinary tool belt. I thought I would share them with you in case you might benefit from them. The first time I met my neighbor Jen she was cutting up watermelon. I was so intrigued by the technique that I immediately started doing it. She […]