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Outsmarting Travis
Travis is sometimes smarter than we give him credit for. He’s always been very respectful of all the electric fencing (Whiskey is too) and treated the white electric tape we use for cross-fencing like...
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The dirty little secret of country chicken keeping
I’ve been hiding a dirty little secret from you for a couple of months now. The kind that makes me both laugh and feel slightly ashamed. So, to tell you, I’m going to whisper it. Are you ready? We’ve...
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Ringing in the New Year with Hot Water
I am (we are) a bad housekeeper(s), but even so, this mess is unusual for us. It’s really not what I was hoping to be surrounded by on New Year’s Eve. Unfortunately, when the weather report looks like...
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In like a lion?
It’s been a week of wild weather around here. We went from sunny and beautiful to snowy and cold and now that it’s done snowing (hopefully) it’s getting crazy cold again. I get a daily weather...
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It must be spring
You know how I know that it’s spring? Oh, let me count the ways… 1) I have a very very nasty cold. The kind that makes you crabby and irritable and hungry. Oh so hungry. I get one every year, right...
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Spring has been a shy tease this year, days upon days of rain are followed by just one or two days of sun and then it goes back to dreary and wet. The pastures are weeks behind where they should be, we...
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Daily Photos: Farm Life
I’m trying to get back into the photography/blog groove. To make that easier I think I’m going to lower my post requirements bar – so be prepared for some short, sweet and infrequently funny posts in...
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Garden Plan 2012
Daylight savings time has kicked me into garden high gear, after months of hemming and hawing about what the plan was going to be. I hit the farm store on Sunday for my seeds at 40% off, plus potato...
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Our Fifth Spring
We’ve just entered our fifth year here on the farmette and spring is on it’s way, or so I keep telling myself. A lot has changed in the past 4 years, and a lot has stayed the same. The frogs still sing...
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Gardening on Time and other thoughts
There are weekends which feel like they were wasted, or spent simply recharging the batteries. And there are weekends that are spent getting shit done. This was the latter (in combination with one 2...
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