Last year we put in a small garden near our barn and ended up putting in too many plants and it got very crowded as everything grew. We’ve got 20 acres here so this year we decided to spread the garden out a bit and we put in a new garden area in our field [...]
This picture is just so funny. If Alva could talk I’m sure he’d say, “I’m just looking at her, I’m not going to touch her at all.”
If Alva could talk I’m sure he’d now say “Okay she’s taunting me, can I get her now, can I?”
If Sydney could talk I’m sure she would say “I [...]
Or more accurately, a hot tub in the rocks.
When we got this hot tub last year near the end of summer we never had a chance to really finish the landscaping around it so all winter there a pile of dirt and a pile of rocks next to it. Today we finally finished the landscaping [...]
The chickens are about 11 weeks old now. They are quite funny when it comes to being outside of their coop. As soon as we open the door for them to go outside some of them run right down the ramp and run over to see me. I talk to them and they listen, well as [...]
Here is an up close look at a couple apples. The trees seem to have quite a few small apples started on them, depsite the deer taking a liking to the trees shortly after they were planted. Once we noticed that some of the braches were being eaten, we put netting over the trees to [...]
We have a bunch of daisies growing in our field. This is just an upclose photo of one. Not sure if it will show but there is a spider web around the petals of the flower.
Chris was on his way back into the house this evening from locking the chickens in their coop for the night and as he was walking a little baby deer walked right up to him. He came running into the house and told me to come outside with him to see the baby deer. I [...]
No family farm or homestead could possibly be complete without a small fruit orchard, so putting in some fruit trees has been on our wishlist since we moved here. For my recent birthday my mom gave us some money to put toward buying some apple trees.
We decided that if we were going to put the [...]