Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Rain Dance time




it's desperately dry here ...grass fires all around and no rain in sight



trees have dropped their leaves and the ground is cracking ...


garden is way ahead of schedule but we are worried about the well running dry ...


the pond has a tiny bit of water still but considering it's still July it's hard to imagine what August may look like

Monday, July 9, 2012

Splitting Rails ...










Big T is learning a new, and useful, skill.

Monday, July 2, 2012

July Already?

What a busy month June was... blink and it was done

the garden continues to grow like mad (sadly the weeds too)

we have tomatoes already - not ripe but huge ... such weird weather ...








Monday, June 4, 2012

Chick, chick, chick ....

Silkie chickens arrived Friday





CUTE is about the only word that works ...

Buff, blue, black, red, and white babies - all growing like stink already!

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Here come the cows ... and a haiku!






The girls and their kids moved in this week. They'll be with us for five months.

the promised Haiku:

Wild Strawberries. A
Delicious Taste in my hand.
Heaven on our farm. 

Sunday, May 13, 2012

That planting time of year

Big T and I are working hard getting veggie beds ready for planting. We have a mantis tiller for new or really heavy projects but we like our earth worm friends so try to turn the settled beds by hand.  Good for  soul, even if hard on the back.

Peas, beets and carrots are planted. Potatoes are curing ready for planting. The plan is ready
Peas, carrots, beets, potatoes, garlic, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, corn, asparagus, rhubarb, strawberries, peppers, tomatoes, beans, onions, hopefully some fennel (for Mum), sunchokes, pumpkins, honeydew melon, watermelon, squash, zucchini and a whole lot of herbs are the plan as it stands now. We'll see. It seems every year we come up with a great plan that ends up changing a bit!

Friday, May 4, 2012

Heartbreak can have 4 feet ...

Meet this lovely fellow today, 


Cute as a button, 


Friendly (a little head shy but we just met)


his willingness to please shone through our interaction


a heartbreaker in a very cute package!



Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Planting and exploring...

A lovely weekend ...



Flowers in the woods - what a pretty time of year in the woods - Trilliums, trout lilies, these little woodland flowers and more...

The pond is very full ... 2 ducks have taken up occupancy


A pretty spot down in the cattle pens (looks like we may have cattle on some of the land this summer!)


The planted flowers are looking good too- also planted the first row of peas and carrots this weekend.


We all had a lovely, heart filling, tiring weekend!

Sunday, April 22, 2012

April Farm Flowers and Happy Dogs ...

Rainy damp weekend meant not a lot of work got done but we went for a decent walk anyhow!








Didn't get a picture of the tulips at the entrance to the farm - they are very pretty! So glad they "took"!

Friday, April 20, 2012

is it really April?

the garden is confused too







much more like May around here ... or maybe even June if you ask the garlic