We’ve currently got eight hens and a rooster. As mentioned in a previous post or two, we are not huge fans of roosters for a few pretty specific reasons. One is that they’re noisy. They rando...
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When I looked out the window the other morning, I was checking to see how much snow we’d gotten overnight. Huge snowstorms and power outages had been reported, but we’d only gotten about six ...
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Once upon a time, in the not-so-distant past, there was a beautiful burn pit. It was a bucolic collection of stones surrounded by wildflowers, with a small orchard in the background. The burn pit...
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Because I took so much time off from writing this, I need to catch you guys up on the Great Beehive Bear Attacks of ’23. I’m entering year nine of keeping bees and, to be fair, I feel only sl...
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The dogs and I were trying to get some work done this morning. We’d been reasonably productive thus far and were feeling good about the direction of the day. All of a sudden, a SCREAM (of sorts...
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It has been absolutely freakin’ freezing out for the past three days. Because we heat our house with firewood, and because we are collectively too lazy to actually stack enough wood for a few d...
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Sometimes, the dogs start barking for (what seems like) absolutely no reason. Obviously, there is SOMETHING out there in the woods that they can see/hear/smell/sense/envision/conjure that isn’t...
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It’s been a minute since I’ve written anything here, so if I’ve caught you off guard, I apologize. Things on the farm have been busy of late. Getting ready for winter always involves a Sisy...
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This post contains graphic violence and nudity and may not be suitable for all audiences. Reader discretion is advised. This is not a post about farming. This is a post about our fish tank. Ten y...
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Five or six years ago, Dave spent an awful lot of time digging out The Puddle. We don’t have any natural water sources on our land, but the water table is relatively high. Every time we got any...
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