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Littles!!!

30 Wednesday Aug 2017

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Yes indeed. Little chickens arrived today. Our first batch anyway. Because they are Bantams, they are extra small! Therefore, extra cute. You know I’m biased because I grew up with these little, cute, feisty chickens, but it’s difficult for people to get excited about extra small eggs! However, they are exceedingly great foragers and bug getters. We need some bug getters, let me tell you! The Hatchery sent us 21 babies! We were only supposed to get 16, I’m wondering if they thought we were going to lose some in transit. So far, they all seem quite hale and hearty. They don’t walk anywhere- they run! Then they stop wherever they get too tired and take a nap… sometimes that’s right in the middle of the food dish. 🙂 I took a short video of them that I’ll put at the bottom of the post, just to share the cuteness.

IMG_1580As I write this, I’m outside watering some of the trees because it’s been a number of days since we’ve had helpful rain. Although it takes some time, watering is one of my favorite things to do in the evening. I get to outside, focusing on something further away than the computer screen ( unless I’m bogging), and – in the quiet – I notice things that maybe I wouldn’t otherwise. Today I noticed that an army of ants had beat a path from their nest – in the center of the cleared area of the photo – to the other side of the fence. It’s a perfectly cleared highway and it was bustling with workers. I think most of them were hauling seeds, some had filched chicken feed. It’s a little hard to see, but it starts center photo and goes up, just to the left of the little tree. If ants can work together to make highways… what can we accomplish as a species? We’d just like to feed some people. And we’ll keep you posted on how that works out. Until then, as always~ thanks for reading!

Oh! I forgot! Here’s your video.


Today’s Weather: it was warm again today with slight winds off and on. I’m hoping for more rain!

Egg Report: ok- somehow we ended up with four duck eggs (one was NOT a goose egg) and 17 chicken eggs.

The Little Bantums Arrive Tomorrow

29 Tuesday Aug 2017

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img_1575.jpgA lot went on here while I was out in California for my Dad’s birthday. You know, Sue just never stops! She’s been working on adding some improvements to the brooding table and doing last minute clean ups, etc. When ever we’ve had chickens in quarantine – regardless of the reason – when they’re out (or gone) we like to make sure everything is cleaned really well, with a bleach solution, just in case. Especially if we’re going to using some of it for littles that should be arriving tomorrow! This is the batch of stuff that Sue cleaned up on Monday, while I was driving back. Continue reading →

Moving on up!

26 Saturday Aug 2017

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This weekend I’m in California for my Dad’s birthday. Seems that I’ve been gone quite a bit lately. That leaves Sue taking care of these projects that are coming up- that we’ve talked about on these blogs lately. Continue reading →

Here’s what happens when I’m gone…

23 Wednesday Aug 2017

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You probably know I was gone on a business trip Monday and Tuesday. When I finally came home Tuesday afternoon, Sue had sent me photos of the work she did while I was gone. Here’s the low down. Continue reading →

Quick Weekend Shorts

21 Monday Aug 2017

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IMG_1487When I think about our weekend, it seems like we did so much, but as I’m sitting here wanting to share it, I’m having trouble remembering what all we did. I remember that I blogged on Saturday and wrote about the littles and getting ready for those guys’ arrival. I posted on Saturday because Friday night we had some folks stop by to tour the farm, see what was new since they’d been there last, and stay for dinner. It was a great evening. We had individual Beef Wellingtons. I’m including the photo, because I don’t have very many visual aids tonight! I was pleased that they turned out well and everyone seemed to enjoy them. One of our guests has some great ideas to share with us about generating income and helping to share the adventure with others in a more hands on manner. I’m excited to talk with him about this, so I hope to have something to share with you all in the near future. Continue reading →

Getting ready for new littles

19 Saturday Aug 2017

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A couple of days ago, I mentioned that we ordered some little Cochin chicks. They’ll be here towards the end of August, and we’re hoping that Maeve will want to mother them a bit. Since then, we’ve decided to beef (ha!) up our egg laying population as well. If last year was any indication, winter will be hard on the chickens. We want to make sure that we’ll have a good number of layers come the spring. So this is what Sue ordered… Continue reading →

Moving and Shaking

16 Wednesday Aug 2017

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For the past month or so, we’ve had ADOT working on the corner of road right by our place. We are on the corner of Prince Placer and South Stone Ridge. They have been upgrading the road where the water washes over it during the monsoons. It seems that a few years ago, after the fire, they had some real trouble with flash flooding. So far this year that has not happened, but now we are completely prepared, just in case. They have been using some extra heavy equipment that actually shakes our house as they are performing some of their grading exploits. The dogs and cats really hate it. Yesterday, one of the men working on the site asked Sue if he could grade a portion of our property – outside our fence- that runs along Prince Placer Road. We thought that it belonged to the county, that’s what Sue was told when she moved in. They even stopped us from using the driveway entrance off of Prince Placer. Continue reading →

It’s been a few days…

14 Monday Aug 2017

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…let’s catch up! I’ve been AWOL, I know; everyone deserves a break now an then. But now we’re back, trying to stick with the regular schedule of blog posts. We’ll catch you up in no time! Continue reading →

It’s Been a Crazy Week…

08 Tuesday Aug 2017

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Sue’s Mowing Trails

…and it’s only Tuesday! We had a good weekend – tackling some projects in the morning, like mowing the front “lawn”. In the photo on the right, you can see how high the grasses were getting. The short parts are where Sue had passed before I got out there to take the “before” photo. To the left is the “after” photo. Everything is looking so golf course like. We even have rough areas. Come play the links! While Sue was mowing, I started mucking out the french drain for the gray water. The last hard rain we had really washed the dirt into it and I needed to clean it out and

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“After”

reorganize the rocks, start a wall around it, etc. I had maybe half of it mucked out and got called in to work. When I got back and hour or so later, it was getting too hot for us to be working outside, so we took some time in the middle of the day to see Wonder Woman; that was pretty fun.

 

We take Sunday as a Sabbath day, so we had a nice pot roast dinner with Alexis, Dustin and Irie, shared the buttermilk biscuits and some brownies with our good friend Holly (she bought some eggs!) and pawned some veggies off on her, then went to Tractor Supply for feed and straw. All in all, a pretty low key day. Continue reading →

Trees! and other interesting offerings

02 Wednesday Aug 2017

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In case you were wondering— we’ve been experiencing some technical difficulties around here. Monday night we had an amazing thunder and lightening storm and it took out our wifi router. It’s taken me this long to get things back up and running – with a lot of help from Wi-Power Tech support. So here’s the update for the week~Read on!

Yay! Tuesday we were finally able to get together with Mr. Gary Foss, owner of Oaks of the Wild West, and picked out 20 wonderful trees for the property. We went out around 3:00 p.m. to meet him. I could not believe the property when we drove down the tree lined entrance. It was the nearest thing to a forest as I’ve ever seen here. And what I could see was only the tip of the iceberg! Mr. Foss has been planting trees on his property for the last 20 years or so. Many of the trees that he sells are grown from the seeds of the trees on his property. He has so many varieties of Oaks, Pines, Cypress, and junipers. Plus he has quite a variety of nuts and fruit trees. Many people from around our neighborhood have also been able to pick out trees for their property as well. In a few years it’ll be a veritable forest down ol’ South Stone Ridge Road and Prince Placer! Continue reading →

Hereford in Photos

When morning guilds the skies
When morning guilds the skies
Bits of Fall
Bits of Fall
Blues, Greys, Greens, and Browns
Blues, Greys, Greens, and Browns
Getting ready for fall
Getting ready for fall
Horizons
Horizons
Creek Action
Creek Action
Weather is made in Sonoita
Weather is made in Sonoita
Fallen Foliage
Fallen Foliage
Fall Water
Fall Water
Rain clouds held off by the cross
Rain clouds held off by the cross

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