Musings of our Colorful Collection of Farm Animals and Homesteading Pursuits on a Swamp in Central Florida
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We’re coming up to some really hot weather in the next few weeks….. Most of our pigs have their own shaded areas…where they can repose out of the sun…literally with palm fond fans….. But recently all of the dead trees have been taken down…and it’s looking extra sunny out there….. My older daughter and I are doing research on what vegetation can take the place of the old removed trees….. …..and offer both…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I’ve ordered more chickens…(to be specific…recently hatched baby chicks)….. They’re all different named breeds….. …..(and they all have pretty colored egg shells)….. I’ve probably ordered more than I should have………….I’m quite sure I did….. …..(you’d be surprised how much baby chicks cost these days)….. But like I’ve said before…I don’t do designer clothes or Prada shoes….. I do land….. And apparently…I buy chickens too….. I’ve bought chicks from this hatchery for many years……..
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Here it is…the first of May…and this is traditionally Florida’s “dry season”….. But this year it’s exceptionally & exceedingly dry….. We are in the middle of a dramatic drought….. I friend just told me that this is the worst drought in a Really Really long time (1890?)….. Everything is crispy and crunchy and dry….. And to state the obvious…there’s a strict “No Burn Ban” in place….. Everyone is taking it seriously…(except for some…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps****** We got the “Hee Hee’s”……………now we have to start working on the “Haw’s”….. Bartholomew is growing up….. We don’t really know how old he is….. …..we’re estimating about nine months old….. We have no idea how old his mother is….. I think Doctor Stevie Wonder will be able to estimate their ages by their teeth the next time he comes out….. Donkey’s are very gregarious…they are farmyard yentas too….. If you want to…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Hurricane Season is just around the corner…(again………….sigh)….. We counted a lot of accumulated dead trees all around our farm….. …..a lot of limbs hanging over the house….. …..a lot of dead wood just waiting to fall on the gates…or the barn…or our house….. We try to learn going forward…which meant…take down the dead trees…before they take down themselves….. We had the Super-D-Dooper split double trunk of the Live Oak tree in our front…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I know it’s a boring subject for a post….. It’s a boring chore….. It’s a forever chore….. But it’s gotta be done….. And somebody’s gotta do it………….and I’m that somebody….. We need to have the pasture’s electric fencing up to snuff before the mares come home….. They will immediately test it….. …..we need it to “get their attention”…(and unwittingly…ours too)….. We also have to clear out all…or at least most…(or maybe we’ll just…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* The local University’s botanical society just hosted their Annual Spring Plant Sale….. My daughters both went….. They took our “State Fair wagon” with them….. …..that’s kind of scary…because when you have the capacity to drag a wagon around with you….. …..you also have the ability to fill it….. And that’s exactly what happened….. My daughters bought lots of young fruit bearing trees and bushes….. A few years ago…I dutifully bought and planted and…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Gatsby’s getting old….. He didn’t have an easy life as a kitten or as a young cat….. At that time…my older daughter worked at a nearby pet shop….. This shop worked with a local cat rescue…which had recently found a litter of kittens…left in an abandoned rental house….. The renters had left….. When the landlords came to clean the house for the next tenants (six+ weeks later)…they found an empty bag of cat…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Easter was this last Sunday….. We watched some good movies and documentaries…took it easy…and ate as much refined sugar as was humanly possible….. There was definitely an over indulgence in Easter candy….. It was really a good thing that the List the Easter Bunny gave me had all of my favorite candies on it….. Yummy….. Wasn’t that so fortunately circumstantial?…that the List had all of my favorites(?)….. I may have overly procured the…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Yep…the chicken ladies have definitely cranked up their egg production….. They stand in lines outside the laying boxes…every day now….. The other day I picked up forty-three eggs…(43)…(!)….. My younger daughter swore that she had picked them all up the day before…(but I really don’t think so)….. By my count…we are averaging between eighteen and twenty-ish eggs a day….. We give eggs to our neighbors and friends….. The only thing we have a…