After papa goose disappeared Michael thought it was best to replace the field fencing that was around the pond. It was old and had places that the geese were able to get through. The Saturday after Christmas Michael and the boys took down the old fence and some of the useless posts. They bought new […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Refreshing Start to My Tuesday
I opened the barn and coop today. It was nice that it wasn’t raining. All the animals were happy to see me. Everything went like clockwork. Until the end. Since things are muddy and wet all the time now, we hose our boots off before we get to the house. It is an effort to […]
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 […]
Building a Barn Door
Well finally, after many months I built the final door to close in the barn. Our barn is a great little barn, it has multiple stalls which allows us plenty of room for animals, storage and we even have a feed-room. There are 3 door openings that exit out the side of the barn from […]
There He Goes Again
Check another project off of the list for Michael. We have a laundry room in our new home. I love it. I didn’t have one in our last home. But there wasn’t any place to store stuff in the laundry room. So, for nearly six months this is what it looked like. […]