This week we had a couple of snow days. It was enough to cancel school for a couple of days. This month has been pretty chilly as well, with only one day in the 50’s, which is pretty unusual for us. We got nice pictures of the snow, even though it didn’t stick around much, […]
Our field and flooding
So every winter the creek floods and a few times a year is turns our lower field into a giant lake. Here are some pictures of the field before it flooded. And here are a few pictures of the field as the water was rising. This flooding was very minor compared to some of the […]
A New Water Supply Room
So a few weeks ago I posted about our new water supply room and as I was looking at the pictures I had taken it gave me to motivation to actually finish the room. You know how it is, there are often too many things to get done, sometimes you just want to get done what […]
In Loving Memory
Karren passed away in her Gresham home of more than 30 years on September 20th. Born in Portland to Don and Gladys Marshall March 7, 1944, she attended Santiam High School in Mill City, and then graduated from Oregon State University with a business degree. She soon married Danny Espalin whom she met in college, […]
Playin’ Catchup up on Salt Creek
Well, it has been quite some time since our last post. Sometimes life just throws a curve ball at you and things get shuffled around. That happened to us , and unfortunately our little blog, our “scrapbook” of our farm adventures, got put on the back burner. In the next few weeks we will provide […]
Mowing the field
So the other night, Joshua and I teamed up to mow the upper pasture. We mow each field after we rotate the goats off them in an effort to reduce any parasites and allow the grass to grow back evenly. I used the John Deere 790 with the 5 foot brush cutter blade and Joshua […]
Blueberries, finally!
Ever since we moved here, we have missed having blueberries. In our last house we had a couple of bushes and really enjoyed them, but hadn’t added them to our little farm here yet. Well, I can say that after almost 4 years, we have blueberries! Well, blueberry bushes that is. We bought 30 plants, […]
Busy bees
Last year we had two bee hives. One was very strong, the other seemed to barely make it through the winter, and at times we really weren’t sure it would last at all. Well I am happy to report that we now have three hives! Below is the original strong hive, it swarmed last year […]
Bouncing Baby Goats
If you are like us, you cannot get enough of these little guys jumping around, exploring the new world around them, and learning how to bounce. Here is a video of our 15 baby goats just having fun. Cheers from the farm! Michael
♪Hello, it’s me ♪
♪ I’ve thought about us for a long, long time but never did get around to writing a post. ♪ Michael is in remission and is doing well except for dry skin on his face. He will see a Dermatologist about. He is back at work and loving it. He is not a guy […]
Long Time No Blog Post
Gosh. It has been over two months since I last posted. I finally finished up with my twice a week physical therapy for “frozen shoulder” at the beginning of June. A little more than a week went by before Michael informed me he had gone to see our family doctor for a problem he had […]
Unhappy Geese
Our geese are pretty unhappy. They want to float in the pond. They go down multiple times a day and every time, instead of floating in the water, they are slipping and sliding on the ice. We try to distract them with grain. Hopefully, we only have a day or two left of freezing weather. […]