Ruffled Feathers and Spilled Milk

Farming with ducks and dairy goats, chickens and children.

If the kids come down in the morning…

….while you are sipping coffee and watching the morning news, they will want to watch cartoons.  When you tell them no and make them watch the news, they’ll see the weather report.  If they see the weather is going to be 94 degrees with high humidity, they’ll want to do something inside in the air […]

Pruning.

Well, I’m sure this comes as a big surprise, but the garden chores got away from me a little bit.  Not through any fault on my part, of course.  Mainly it happened because we have been doing this: Helping to shear Ramses, the UNC mascot.

It is Done.

Today was Papa Pig’s last day with us. Since he began going through 50lb bags of feed every 4 or 5 days, his time with us started coming to a close.  According to my sewing tape (and some odd calculations I found on the internet) he measured out at 243.34 lbs a couple weeks ago.  […]

Beach Day.

Is there anything better than a day at the beach…. when the water is crystal clear (so you can see the sharks before they see you)….

They’re Here! They’re Here!

Tomatoes and cukes in the garden today! Can I get an “Hallelujah”?

What’s it worth to you?

Everything has a value.  Which isn’t necessarily what something costs in the store.  After all, the seeds for these newly sprouted annuals and perennials were only $1 per pack. But by the time I used the hoe to remove all the weeds from the new flower bed, Middle carried over buckets of compost to amend […]

Which is better….

…when you write a post for your blog…or when your friends simply hand you the material to write a post for your blog? I think we all know the answer to that one. The following text was written by me.  But the photos were provided by Lisa and Brook.  Because I don’t get off the […]

Out With The Old And In With The New.

The time is finally here. The spring crops, like the lettuce and snap peas, have slowed to being harvested a handful at a time.  And the summer crops, like  zucchini and squash, need a basket to be carried up. The pansies are drooping next to the wild abandon of the petunias…. ….and cowering at the […]

Lawn Mowers.

Well, I cannot tell a lie.  The potatoes did it.  The potatoes broke Cheap and Reliable.  Two years ago we purchased Cheap and Reliable when I had several (meaning multiple, many, perhaps weekly) fits about the lawn tractor always breaking down, resulting in the lawn never getting mowed, and insisted on a lawn mower.  I […]

Mother’s Day.

Well, some of us put in the hours on Mother’s Day.  Not me.  But some of us. Cookie Dough hatched out her ducklings. Which is a good thing.  Because we were almost out of hay.  And we couldn’t bring in new hay until somebody got her nest out of the last remaining hay roll.  Which […]

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