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The Farm Gets A Facelift

The Farm Gets A Facelift

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*******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…

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Things To Do~~Places To Go

Things To Do~~Places To Go

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I’m Home From The Hospital!…Tra!…La!….. Okay…that’s the first step….. …..we’ll figure out what’s going on with me later….. But now…I’ve got things to do….. We’re approaching the summer heat quickly…(who am I kidding…it’s already here)….. Two days ago…Clover was suffering from the heat….. After the big oak trees blew over during Hurricane Milton…it left Clover’s pen in the sun…without shade….. …..and that was okay during the winter…but we hadn’t considered what would happen…

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Pigs And Pens

Pigs And Pens

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** You’d think by now…we’d be caught up with the Hurricane Milton repairs….. But…you’d be wrong….. MaMa Pig is still in “her” stall in the barn…she’s been there since Milton rolled over us….. …..(and she’s not a good house guest)….. The horse stalls in the barn were never intended to house pigs….. …..but in recent years…that’s all they seem to have been used for….. Originally…I sloped the stall floor with red clay…then covered it…

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…and these little piggies went to market…

…and these little piggies went to market…

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(The-Pig-Saga…..continues)….. *******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** When Will This Porcine Madness End!?!….. It’s Madness…..!!!….. Madness I Say…..!!!….. We probably had more pigs than I ever wanted to admit….. …..(I think about fifteen of them have recently left the property)….. We first found homes (with one of B.J.’s friends) for the five itty-bitty piglets (from the nasty/feral sow)….. Then my older daughter and I had to re-construct…

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***The Hog Hilton***

***The Hog Hilton***

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*******Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel******* Well…….Finally…..!!!….. The hogs finally have their newly finished pig pen….. ………………………….AND…………………………. …..the rainy season hasn’t even begun yet….. …..the first dusty splatter of rain hasn’t started….. …..the summer’s reliable muddy-quagmires haven’t begun puddling yet….. Ralph did all the necessary work….. ***Glossary—(Ralph Defined)*** …..he used our surplus telephone poles as super/secure posts….. …..he was able to make use of the surplus sheets of 5-V Crimp that have been laying around……..

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~~~The Pigs New Digs~~~

~~~The Pigs New Digs~~~

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*******Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel******* FINALLY! The pigs have new additions to their abode currently underway….. …..and the reconstruction is almost completed…..!!!….. Tra!  La! FINALLY! …..this is all because of our skilled friend, Ralph….. Last week Ralph chain-sawed some of our stored telephone poles….. He made them into some very sturdy/big/long-lasting posts for the new & improved pig sty….. The sty is larger now…..so the pigs can stretch out….. AND…..it’s drier!!! Next week Ralph…

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~The Bad Etiquette Of Hunters~

~The Bad Etiquette Of Hunters~

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Let me start out by saying…..I have nothing against hunting….. I’ll prepare and eat venison…pheasant…turkey…wild pig…quail…grouse…alligator….. …..I grew up on rabbit…and squirrel…..(yes, squirrel)…..(but the big northern ones not the southern/scrawny ones)…..(the southern squirrels are just glorified/mangy/Disney-rats)….. I have nothing against hunting….. …..I do have a list of complaints about hunters though….. A couple days ago…..my older daughter and I were wandering around the back property….. …..it’s the dry season…..so we could get back farther than we normally would have been…

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~~~The Saga-Of-The-Piggies…(cont.)~~~

~~~The Saga-Of-The-Piggies…(cont.)~~~

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And you thought my muddy-piggy-posts were over….. HA!….. Silly you….. One would think that a mother pig would have an applicable plan for the survive-ability of her children….. …..one would think that….. One would expect that a mother pig would seek out the safest/warmest environment for her porcine-pudgy-piglets….. …..one would think that….. …..but one would be….. …..wrong….. My older daughter kept going out and checking on the Mama and her babies….. …..around the clock….. …..(my daughter was more sleep-deprived than…

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…..again with the pigs!!!…..

…..again with the pigs!!!…..

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Apparently we are extremely slow learners….. Or maybe the pigs are just faster than we are….. It seems like so many of my recent posts are about our on-going-pig-saga….. …..if you ever want an easy (and quick) reproducible supply of meat…..or pets…..or bridge partners…..or…..that extra hand for a game of canasta….. …..then, I highly recommend keeping pigs….. We don’t seem to be able to get ahead of “that-pig-population-curve”….. …..what can I say…..we have very friendly pigs….. But we think we…

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*******Pony Rides*******

*******Pony Rides*******

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We have turned into the WORST petting zoo EVER…..!!!….. Now…..the big boar is out of his pen…..!!!….. You know the one….. …..the one with the huge/slavering tusks…..!!!….. Now…..whenever we go back into the goat pasture to feed the pigs and the goats….. …..we have to negotiate around a big mama pig…..(who jumped on me yesterday and almost knocked the wind out of me—–I slapped her on the snout and she ran off squealing)….. …..along with the four adolescent pigs….. …..and…

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