Ruffled Feathers and Spilled Milk

Farming with ducks and dairy goats, chickens and children.

Truth in Tomatoes.

The various tomato seeds I bought in February in a fit of winter doldrums (well played, seed catalog, well played) have shown themselves.  This summer the tomatoes exploded and, in an amazing triumph, the plant labels were still intact.  So I actually knew which variety was which and how it performed.  Oh, there were struggles […]

Winner! Winner! Peppers for Dinner!

The peppers were getting out of hand.  We had to switch from roasting them over the burner to putting entire cookie sheets of peppers under the broiler. After they were scorched on top, we sealed them up in the tin foil and let them steam for 10-15 minutes until we could easily peel off the […]

Peppers for Dummies.

The peppers got a new raised bed this year and it didn’t go well.  About 1/3 of the bell pepper plants got green and glossy and then wilted. Generally, wilted peppers are a sign of fungal disease.  But since my peppers started out as lush plants, I suspected excessive nitrogen.  The raised bed was layers […]

Throw Back Thursday: Wings.

I tasted it for the first time last summer.  It had been a long time since I traveled up north with the kids.  The last time I loaded them up in the car and drove them to see my aunts and uncles and their great-grandmother, we all looked like this: You might notice that 1 […]

Patience and Hope.

Several years ago we bought some pathetic root-bound peach and pear trees from a nursery closing down for the approaching winter.  They were only $5 each and came without any guarantees.  Which was fine because we lacked any open sunny places to plant them.  $5 was all we wanted to spend for trees that we […]

Throw Back Thursday: Wedding Blues.

Most of my writing-time was replaced with kid-time over the summer.  Also, weeding-the-garden-time.  And the always enjoyable mowing-the-yard-again-time.  But I did take some pictures and I did have some thoughts.  They were random thoughts then and are mostly irrelevant thoughts now, but isn’t the entire point of a blog to force other people to read […]

Appreciation Days.

This is how we are, people.  It’s true.  We want, but we don’t appreciate.  We waste, and then act surprised when it’s gone.   The first squash of the season was a delectable thrill.  The blinding yellow of the crookneck and sunburst, the pure white scallop, the endless shades of green and grey.  The first […]

Pictures? Really?

I was going to make a post about how I am still alive.  Because people have been asking.  But the kids were out of school, which meant I spent my time alternating between dragging kids off their laptops, iPads, and Kindles and forcing them outside and driving them to their jobs, activities, and friends’ houses.  […]

Field Day.

For years we’ve had a “pasture” that ran under the telephone lines and beside the driveway.  It was only loosely called a pasture because it didn’t grow any grass.  Mostly it was leaf debris, weeds, scrub, and large bare patches. But it was useful in a pinch as a breeding pen or quarantine area for […]

Two-fer Garden.

Everybody loves a two-for-one deal.  Sometimes it’s uses are questionable….. but it’s perfect for the garden chores.  With summer in full swing, the garden takes up the bulk of my outside time.  And whenever I can knock out two jobs with the effort of only one, it makes me happy.  The whole process starts with […]

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