About 4 weeks ago we got our new batch of pigs. Two Large Black male weaners whom we named Laurel and Hardy.
How lovely for me yesterday, Bevan got up and did all the morning chores, while I just lingered in bed and read a book. Can’t remember the last time that happened.
Later I had a [...]
As a new year is about to come upon us, it is time to take stock and see how close to our goals we have reached.
The garden is starting to crank up for the summer harvest, and we even got our first crop of beans for the year. We eat alot of beans, so this [...]
It has been waited for with alot of anticipation and worry. The birth of our first calf. Sweetie Pye was lent to us so that we could learn to milk and have our own dairy products. She arrived two months ago and it was believed that she was carring a half hereford calf.
Where she came [...]
Just as we were thinking that winter was going to bypass us, the cold weather has finally reached us.
We had our first and only frost so far about 2 weeks ago, followed by the wonderful tree pruning weather.
Guess what I have been doing, yes cleaning up the garden and starting to prune the fruit trees [...]
In October, as part of our grow our own system, we invested in a couple of weaner large black pigs. They were not very pretty or endearing at that time as they squealed and complained while they were carried from the trailer to the pen. I was not at all convinced that I would like [...]