• Bees & Pollinators,  Grow

    So much hope!

    I was very worried after the little snow storm we got on April Fools Day, but hope remains 🙂 Now, there are still many nights between now and our guaranteed last frost date, but for now the bees are buzzing, the butterflies are fluttering, and the fruit trees are holding on. Maybe…just maybe…we’ll have a good fruit year this year.…

  • Grow,  Harvest

    Greens & Things

    As you may know about me by now, I always have such great intentions about growing a magnificent fall garden that will (naturally) evolve into a productive winter garden which will set us up for an incredibly bountiful spring… And then I become exhausted by summer’s hectic schedule and distracted by fall’s fall and enveloped by winter’s hibernation… And then…

  • Goats

    Goat Pregnancy Watch! Day 111

    As you might recall, on Day 86 I wrote about our wonderings as to whether or not Mama was actually pregnant and finally deciding that yes, in fact, she must have at least two kids in there! Well, now that we’re about a month out from her estimated/official Kidding Day (May 7th at 145 days), she’s really starting to pop!…

  • If we were having coffee...

    If we were having coffee…

    If we were having coffee, I’d greet you with a big hug and a warm smile!  It’s been too long since we last caught up, I apologize for my absence and I am so very happy to see you! If we were having coffee, we’d get ourselves comfortable with mugs in hand and I would ask you how you’re doing?…

  • Grow

    Let the planting season officially begin!

    We didn’t know for sure when they might open up the flood gates…we were told sometime between “Holy weekend” and April 1st…and so yesterday afternoon, with the dogs barking anxiously and a strange truck stopped down by one end of our property line, we were happy to realize that it was the Mayordomo checking the line as all the debris…

  • Poultry

    I’d like to formally introduce you to…

    Red & Kitty 🙂 Since we’ve officially decided to keep our two Muscovy ducks as a mating pair into the foreseeable future, we have decided to give them names! (You know, unlike all of our other poultry that don’t get names because they have a greater potential to become dinner either by intention or necessity.) And, so, in keeping with the…