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.
Tuesday was the easiest day of putting up gutters I have ever experienced. This was true for three reasons: The weather was gorgeous, warm but not hot, with no wind. This side of the roof is low enough I can reach it from the ground. This makes moving back and forth much faster, since I… Continue reading Finishing the Gutters
Weather on Tuesday was what Koreans call 호랑이 장가가는 날. (Ho-rang-i chang-ga ga-nin nal, literally translated means "the day of going to the tiger's wedding" but is an idiom for a day with clouds, rain and sunshine all together). After a rainy morning the sun came out brilliantly at lunch time, so I decided to… Continue reading Guttering.
25 degrees out this morning. Time to bust out these bad boys. The hens haven’t figured out where the liquid water is yet, but they will eventually. They’re dumb, but they’re not stupid.
Miss Winnie is now two years old. As a newly minted two-year-old she feels that she should be directly involved in all the major tasks on the farm. Whatever Mommy or Daddy are doing, Winnie wants to help with it. She won't hear any of this nonsense about, "No, you're too little." What do you… Continue reading Me-Me do!
That should totally be a thing, by the way. I think it would be awesome. I got home from working out this morning to find a small man awake and ready to start the day. Actually, he was snuggling in my spot in Mommy and Daddy's bed, but as soon as he heard that I… Continue reading Man Work Monday
Thursday, the Feast of the Assumption, was a very busy day. We slaughtered two ganders, two roosters (for stew meat), five older hens (also for stew meat) and 27 Cornish cross meat birds. The work started the night before with setting up the kill station. We learned from last year it is good to have… Continue reading Chicken Dinner
Let this post stand as an explanation for why we have not posted anything since last week... Evie and Lydia (the bird) patiently waiting their turn for her Fitting and Showing. Ellie and Gemma. This is the first year Elli is ellie-gible for Fitting and Showing. She was a tag-along last year, but this year… Continue reading 4H – Pierce County Fair
Have you ever washed a chicken? Chickens need to be clean before they can be shown at the fair, but... This was the most offended looking chicken I have ever seen in my life.
About 10 days until they are ready! This year, when we butcher them, we are going to look carefully for the nuggets. The question is, does each chicken have a single nugget that is an individualized shape? Or does each chicken have the full menagerie pterodactyl, a Tyrannosaurus, a stegosaurus, and a brontosaurus?
Others… Not so much. At 96° today at the farm, pretty warm for this neck of the woods. Daddy insists that it is not that hot, compared to other places he has lived and worked, but for those unaccustomed, it’s pretty doggone warm. That’s why we got to the farm bright and early this morning,… Continue reading Some like it hot
Little Farm in the Big City 