New To Farm Life

A couple moves from the big city to the countryside and starts a small farm...wait, you've heard this premise before? What? Trite? Hackneyed? But, I have goats. Really cute pictures of tiny baby goats. And cheesemaking recipes. We slaughter our own pigs and cure our own bacon! Well, that's in the master plan, anyway. Just read it, you'll see.

Sunday, April 23, 2017

Haku and the Baby Goats ("Shepherd" Indeed)

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Haku is in love with Bunny, the bottle baby. In this photo, he is clearly saying "mine." After several days of close supe...
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Beat Up by a Sheep (For the LAST time)

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Sometime this past winter, my sister gave us a sheep. A ram, actually. She and her husband raise  Jacob's sheep , a heritage breed tha...
Saturday, April 15, 2017

Happy Easter/Ostara

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Easter is my favorite holiday of the year. Perhaps because my family always made a big deal out it, or perhaps because I live in a part of t...
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Sunday, April 9, 2017

Bottle Babies (Happy and Sad)

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Bunny, the house goat Last week, the younger girls and I went to Tucson to visit my dad. While we were gone, two of the does decided ...
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Thursday, March 30, 2017

At Last (Spring has Sprung)

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The longest, coldest, wettest spring ever is finally happening. Last year, I saw a honeybee six weeks before this date. This year I  haven...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

Farmhand Frustration

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My oldest daughter, Rowan, moved out last December. She was twenty-two at the time, so I can't really blame her, but we miss her aroun...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

Rerun (Spring Work List)

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I've been re-reading the blog, something I haven't done in several years, and this evening I was amused to read the following list...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Meat Math 2017

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This year's horrible pigs (all pigs are horrible but this year's were worse than most) have been converted into meat, and the meat...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Spring Cleaning, Part One

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A beautiful day in earliest spring, notwithstanding a stiff, cold breeze and two inches of new snow on the ground when we woke up. Now, in...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Snowpocalypse 2017

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This is the west side of my house. See the snow up to the ROOF? Admittedly, this is a drift. But anytime there is snow up to the roof, ...
Monday, February 6, 2017

Doing Chores in Winter Wonderland (Too Old for this Shit)

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It is snowing. It is snowing sideways. It has been snowing sideways for the better part of four days. There is a foot and a half of snow on...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

Peace and Birdwatching

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There was controversy surrounding our christmas tree this year ( O (Dead) Christmas Tree ); a controversy that resulted in us having ...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

O (Dead) Christmas Tree

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Christmas, the 800 pound gorilla of holidays,   is once again upon us. Every year, I envy my childless brother, who insouciantly flaunts on...
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Monday, December 5, 2016

Winter Stores (First World Problems)

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I feel pretty good about the state of the larder going into winter this year. I had a very successful canning season and as you can see...
Monday, November 21, 2016

A Short Hiatus

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Forgive me that I haven't written a new blog post in a couple of weeks. I've been too busy reeling around in horror and exploring th...
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