I’ve been noticing our Rooster pecking at the hens lately. I guess he is showing his loving feelings by pecking the ladies. He has pecked me. Not because he has any loving feelings for me (like Calvin does) but probably to keep me away from his harem. It hurts. I’m glad I’m not a hen. […]
A Joyful Visit
My sister and my two nieces came down New Year’s Day to stay the night. When we lived in Milwaukie we were minutes from all of my family. I miss them so much. I thought I would be able to talk on the phone to make up for it but life is so busy especially […]
Fun Additions at the Barn
For Christmas we got the boys a bunch of goose decoys. They want to hunt everything but we have limited it to Canada Geese. We surprised them Christmas morning with a field of geese (decoys). It was pretty funny. They thought they were real and told us to all hide so we didn’t scare them […]
Death, The Ugly Side of Homesteading
I’m a softy. I didn’t grow up on a farm raising my own animals, naming them only to kill them and eat them. We have “lost” two geese in the past two weeks. First was papa goose. During the flooding of the lower acreage the geese would swim all over the place. Remember the neighbor’s […]
Very Funny Story
Happy 2015. I was looking up information on the internet about geese when I came across this hilarious story. It is from a website called Homestead.org and it is written by Diana Barker. Remember that old commercial, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature?” Well, as a young child of about 12, I found out […]
Doelings or Leprechauns?
On Saturday a new and already beloved friend named Raspberry came over to teach us to 1) give our goats vaccinations and 2) tattoo our new doelings. Raspberry is a long time goat owner. He started in his youth with 4-H. He is a wealth of knowledge and wisdom. For 20+ years he was a […]
December Happenings
Here is a little update of just a few things that have been going on so far in December. We found a great Christmas tree farm just ten minutes from our home. They had a lot of nice trees from which to choose. We wanted a smaller tree than we normally have. This being our […]
Delightful Doelings
Finally. We have been waiting for nine weeks to bring our doelings home. It is best to let them nurse for at least eight weeks. Our dear friend Bryn is giving us these precious girls. Two were born to her Nigerian Dwarf doe named Pippa and one was born to another doe named Peach (she […]
Moving Day for Fern
Well if you thought herding geese out of a neighbor’s wheat field in the rain on Tuesday morning was enough for one day….you were wrong. That afternoon Fern was leaving our barn to go live in another barn. Who is Fern you ask? She is our neighbors pig. She was here before we bought the […]
Our Wayward Geese
About mid-morning I heard someone shooting a gun. That isn’t uncommon in our neighborhood. It continued. Then the phone rang. It was Nick our neighbor. He called to inform me that our geese were in the field that bordered his property and the owner of that property was shooting at them. I told the boys […]
Animals, Antics and Analogies
I find it enjoyable to notice things on our farm. As the seasons change so does the landscape, birds and wildlife. During summer the the barn swallows reigned supreme. A doe and her spotted fawns could be seen in the lower acreage in the early morning hours. The bull frogs lulled us to sleep each […]
Frozen
For the past four days we have had some cold temperatures here on the farm. A lot of things are covered in ice. It sure is pretty. The pond started to freeze. Apparently the pond has frozen enough in the past that it was used for ice skating. The boys took ice off […]