We have a lot more going on here than usual right now, and in spite of the heat, though I do have to take it easy in the midday sun. We have started piling up hay for winter, finally. I have the firewood coming along, and we are bottle feeding four calves that will be…
Dispatches From The Farm
Today’s Calf Report
The Holstiens did great today. Both feedings went well. They were eager to eat, and all of them got through their bottles fairly quickly. I dropped in a bit of hay to see how they might take to it. But as I recall, I need to feed them out on the bottles till the six-week…
A Cow Update & Etc…
The first two evenings we fed the cows, there was one during each feed that gave us troubles and did not eat. Aside from those two evenings, they have all eaten just fine. I don’t know if it was the stress of the move, but we have had the last two feedings, and indeed all…
Masks: A Cautionary Tale
I have always been the one who has not masked up for a bit of sanding, cleaning with bleach, or running the leaf blower. Who can be bothered? Besides, it does not bother me that much. But now, I actually do own a decent quality mask, and when I went to clean out the chicken…
Beef Cows
Yesterday I went just up the canyon and bought off a guy four Holstien beef steers that he had listed on the local online classifieds. They turned out to be on average three weeks old, so they should wean around the first day of autumn. We have fed them once now, and I think it…
Sharpen The Saw
The wasp was just minding its own business while getting a drink from the wood in the log I had on the log-splitter. I put my hand on top of it, so it had me dead to rights. It had not gone looking for trouble. Neither had I, to be fair, but I was the…
Gathering Firewood & Back Pain
I went to get firewood today. Our oldest could not come with because she had a lot of schoolwork do catch up on, already, and she does not want to get behind. Well, I cannot argue with her on that. So, I left her behind, and our youngest came along with. I was hooking the…
The Season’s Change
Nothing marks the end of summer for the children quite like the start of the school year. The school year starts in the morning though, and we have got to get things going for the home education program. Our oldest is going to be taught via teachers online, and our youngest will have a school…
Summer Scything
I was awake at 5AM this morning, and it only took one YouTube video about medieval scything to get me up and send me out the door chasing g the tall grass along the side of the road before the sun rose. I only cut one tenth of an acre before the sun peaked up…
Summer Stuff
My daughters and I went down to the city dump yesterday to pick up some firewood for winter. We got a pretty good amount already cut down to length, and I cut some more to size also, so it’s out of trailer and right onto the log splitter. There were some birch pieces at the…