Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

First Babies of 2022 (Bitsy Babies)

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Bitsy surprised us today by quietly popping out twins with no fanfare this evening. We had just finished trimming all the hooves - a horribl...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Forest Foraging (Spring Greens)

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This afternoon the sun made an appearance, interrupting several days of chilly rain. I was so happy to see it that I was moved to actually ...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

Yard work (Before and After)

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This past week, the first week in April, has had typically schizophrenic weather. Bright sunny days alternate with gloomy, freezing days - a...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

Notes from the Year of the Pandemic (Spring Equinox, 2021)

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  So far, spring this year is cold. There was a week of warm sun sometime in early March - there usually is - that tempted me to start shove...
Friday, June 5, 2020

Just Cute Goat Pictures

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Paloma and Flopsy’s baby boy. I can’t decide who is cuter.  My goat-totin’ man, totin’ Bitsy and Bootsy, Christmas’ two doelings.  Hope bei...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020

DQ- OH WAIT ITS OVER!!

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On Friday, the governor announced that Washington state was ending the stay-home order as of Monday morning. All that really means is that ...
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Saturday, May 23, 2020

DQ67 am- More Baby Goats

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Polly finally gave birth today. I’ve been expecting her to do so for about a week, ever since I saw her kneeling with a long string of ambe...
Friday, May 22, 2020

State of the Farm - DQ66

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Thursday, May 7, 2020

DQ51 - State of the Farm

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The pink dogwood in bloom.  It’s an absolutely unbelievably gorgeous day. It just could not be more perfect. I think it’s about 72 degrees,...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

DQ6 - Visit From Rowan

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Our oldest daughter Rowan came by today. She’s been in isolation for ten days already, because she had a cough and a sore throat. No fever t...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

QD5 - Spring Sting (Nettle Soup)

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Stayed at home today - as we are all supposed to do - and having not much to do, decided to harvest some nettles and make avgolemeno soup w...
Friday, March 20, 2020

DQ4 - Garden Notes

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I haven’t bothered with a garden in years - beyond my perennials; rhubarb, raspberries, fruit trees - because I can get unlimited free prod...
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

State of the Farm: Pandemic Edition

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The girls amuse themselves at home with Henna freckles  DQ2 - day two of “quarantine.” We aren’t officially quarantined, of course, and not ...
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Saturday, May 18, 2019

The Fermentation Files, Spring 2019

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Spring finally sprang, and we’ve had a few weeks of beautiful weather. The grass grew all at once, the trees blossomed, and the rhubarb plan...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Haku Loves Baby Goats

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....... or maybe he’s just checking to see if this baby is as tasty as he looks. 
Sunday, March 24, 2019

Four is Too Many

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Christmas gave birth this morning, unaided, to quadruplets. They are all up and nursing, appear to be full term and healthy, and of course ...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

Scary Birds, Scary Eggs

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The turkeys have finally started laying. I guess it took them a long time to settle down, after their repeated escapes and the traumatic pro...
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Wednesday, June 6, 2018

The Annual Opening of the Blackberry Blossoms

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Monday, April 9, 2018

Baby Goats Make Grey Days Okay

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Bunny needs to be beaten off the fruit trees.  The babies are learning what’s good to eat (blackberries! Yum!).  Paloma, being gently attack...
Friday, February 2, 2018

Imbolc 2018

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Seen on a walk today: