They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
Thursday is usually a fairly short day of work. Thanks to some recent changes in Daddy's work schedule, it should soon be a day off for both Mommy and Daddy! Then we will have a family day every week (until we fill it to the brim with errands and extra-curricular activities and such...) But for… Continue reading Thursday Afternoon
For one, we actually managed to make plans and bring them to fruition to get Mommy the mother’s day present she really wanted this year. Although Winnie thinks the cows were a Winnie day present. When is Winnie Day, you ask? Every day is Winnie Day.
It's amazing what we can accomplish with a few hours of work and some motivated helpers. Miss Winnie fits Seppi's old cowboy boots. Man work! Not quite big enough for Daddy's sunglasses. Ellie was sent to go get a roll of wire from the barn. Apparently she needed Seppi and a wheelbarrow to bring it… Continue reading The Sheep Shelter
Well, the water collection system survived its first rain storm... Mostly. We got a little over an inch of rain from Friday morning to Sunday night. The gutter downspout simply didn't work, it just ran out the fitting around the pipe. So Uncle Adam took the top off the manway on the tank and jammed… Continue reading Water Catchment System, Damage Report
It rained all day yesterday so we spent most of the day indoors. Getting over to the farm to do chores yesterday about 2:45 in the afternoon. About the time we got there so did a torrential downpour and as we pulled in the driveway, the rain turned into hail. Didn’t last very long, but… Continue reading Lovely weather
Our rainwater catchment system has three parts, in the simplest analysis. Collection, storage, and retrieval. Phase one, and by far the most expensive part, was setting the the storage system, that is, the big 5,000 gallon tank. Phase two we knock out last weekend, setting up the collection portion of the system. This is the… Continue reading Rainwater Catchment System, Phase II
Right now the process is too time consuming. We are going at look at ways to improve the process so it only takes a few minutes. At the beginning of the week last week we found that the sheep were beginning to test the fence. Their side of the fence was eaten down pretty low,… Continue reading Setting up a new paddock
Well, it's not pretty, but it will do. Two 8-foot gates closing a 16 foot gap at the end of the laneway. They are only fastened by two relatively light chains with extremely light clips, but there is a pile of rocks (yes, I know, but I was in a hurry) behind the middle section… Continue reading Opening up the lane… by closing it off!
Last Saturday, after the bull calves casually walked through our (somewhat) electrified netting for no apparent reason, Mommy and Daddy went on a date. I record that here because we made a resolution at the beginning of the year that we were going to do one date per month, and so far so good! Of… Continue reading It never goes smoothly…
A week ago I did a bit of "fancy" fencing to get a gap closed. However, despite how fancy the chiseled notches looked (not that fancy), at the end of the day it was only tied in place with one bail twine and one wire tie. So yesterday we ended up having to go to… Continue reading Fancy Fencing, Part 2
Little Farm in the Big City 