When you want to have a date night every month, but you have a refrigerator full of leeks that are going to go bad... Watch "The Chosen" and pressure can leek and potato soup (45 minute processing time, 45 minute episodes.) You're welcome!
Month: February 2024
Let’s play a game…
Mommy has strep throat, so Daddy took the older three kids to the farm to give her time to recuperate. While there we worked on burying the first run of PEX pipe. Now, the trick to burying pipe for longevity is to make sure that there are no rocks next to the pipe. With movement… Continue reading Let’s play a game…
Mother Goose
They puff up and hiss through the fence,Their favorite form of defence.Thank your stars, Mama Goose,That the dog can't get loose,Or this rhyme would get way too intense! That's right. Our one remaining female goose has (apparently) choses a mate and is now trying to sit on a clutch of eggs. She does still seem… Continue reading Mother Goose
Three Hearts
Our friends Alex and Emma gave us these. Beautiful additions to the farm kitchen.
Phase 1 complete: The Digging is Dug
You know, some cultures believe that a child will grow up to take on the qualities of the name that he has been given. In my Dad's case this was eminently true. I don't know very many people who have... Dug.. More dirt than he has? ;-D There's a reason no one ever called him… Continue reading Phase 1 complete: The Digging is Dug
Orchard work
Monday and Tuesday of this week we only got about an hour each day to do any farm work, between weather and school, inside chores and runny noses. We used that brief time to get caught up on some tasks that needed doing in the orchard. The orchard, by the way, is not a separate… Continue reading Orchard work
Mama said…
You can put your boots in the oven, but that don’t make ‘em biscuits.
More Digging
Saturday Morning, Ryan and Adam got about two hours of digging in on the trench. We dug about until sunrise before taking a fast break for breakfast. Adam had busted out the pick ax which definitely made a quicker job of breaking through the hardpan and dislodging stubborn rocks. Once the pack was loosened, then… Continue reading More Digging
Diggy Diggy Trench
Ryan and Adam have really been pushing hard to get the water line in for the past year. Whatthis involves right now is mainly a lot of digging. The trench has to be extended to at least 18 inches deep, which means that it needs to be wide enough to stand in, and in most… Continue reading Diggy Diggy Trench
Pruning time
It is February, time to get the fruit trees pruned. This is a time consuming job every year, but it is also a fun job, once you get the hang of it (and when I say "get the hang of it" I mean, develop a hermeneutic of pruning that allows you to move through each… Continue reading Pruning time
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