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Garden Harvest
I went to the garden yesterday morning and harvested this pan full of beautiful veggies. I’m afraid we are going to have to start watering the garden this week from our pond. The sun is bearing down...
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Summer storm to remember
We had a major wind storm with some hail behind arrive at our home last night around 8:30. We lost power for only four hours and most of the county is still without power. I’m including some photos...
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August/September Preparation for a bad winter
I can’t believe it’s the end of July! This year has flown by!! It’s time to start aggressively storing food for the winter, gathering wood, and winterizing all the animal sheds and the house. I’ll...
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Fall Color
I’m so looking forward to fall and the beautiful colors that come with it. To make my wait a little less painful I thought I would share these photos of past autumns at the farm. ENJOY God’s...
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Fall is here whether we are ready or not!!
We’ve been talking a lot , hubby and me, about the signs of a early winter. I remember as a child hearing my parents and grandparents talking about the signs of a early or bad winter. One such...
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Aroma of fall in my kitchen
Fall and cooler weather heighten the senses at my house. Cooking seems to peak when the seasons change at my house. The smell of bread rising and then baking was quite profound in my house on...
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Of cows and chickens
It’s amazing to me that anyone may be short on hay this winter since we had such a great season. But then I think about the drought the rest of the country had and still has and then I understand. We...
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Cleaning up the orchards
In June of this past summer, we had lots of tree and fence damage from the “duratio” that hit our farm. I’ve never seen such wind and we were very lucky that we had no more damage than we did. We...
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Computers & storms
In my neck of the woods it’s wise to not only turn your computer off when thunderstorms are predicted but you better unplug them and unhook your connection to the phone lines. In the eleven years that...
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Super Moon June 22, 2013
I wanted to show you the pictures I took of the “super moon” last night. The clouds moved in and it wasn’t as spectacular as I wanted to get. About an hour after dusk the clouds broke up some and I...
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Raining again
I left work this morning with it raining again. The weatherman says there a possibility of flash flooding again. We still have less than half of our hay put up but already have almost as much hay as...
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Yoohoo, spring, where are you?
Our little neck of the woods has been filled with major low temps for the last six weeks with minor warm ups and like everyone else I am SOOOOOOO ready for spring. Yes, this is another post about the...
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Spring rains
They came and went and now the cold will return. The skies are awesome to watch from the hill behind the house right before a storm brings in the cold spring rain! It left us with 2.5 inches of...
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Chilling Weather and Orphaned chickens
It was still dark when I left for work last Thursday morning at -5* and Eddie said it would drop more as it became daylight. He had both stoves going when I got home that night, extra bedding in the...
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Season changes and colder weather
The porch is covered with dried firewood. The yard is covered with leaves. The perennials are black, wilted and almost gone. The trees are getting bare. Fall colors on the farm before...
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Hummingbird Moth
This summer weather in December is making me crazy!!! I don’t care for the cold anymore but this is ridiculous!! We actually have a cherry tree on the mountain BLOOMING! This is just wrong, don’t ya...
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Cold weather warning preparation
According to the weather forecasters, colder weather is heading our way (but we’ll see what Mother Nature has to say about that). We’ve put fresh hay in the coon dog houses, put plastic covered mesh...
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What A Day
I’m pooped and this is all you get today! We starting splitting and haul around noon after the wood splitter warmed up enough to crank! Eddie did the hauling in with the tractor from the woods and the...
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Baby, it’s cold outside!!!
This is our outdoor weather station that I got hubby for his birthday. We named him Robin Reed after our local weather forecaster. Our pond had about a two inches of ice on it and now there’s patches...
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