by admin | Oct 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
As our 2020 garden season ends, we thought we would give you a recap. This year, like others, we planted a colorful assortment of garden vegetables. Lettuces, spinach, kale, carrots, radishes, thyme, dill, chives, onions, garlic, tomatoes, peas, squash, pumpkins,...
by admin | Oct 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
About two months ago, we moved the turkeys from the poultry tractor to free-roaming in the pasture.When we did that, we just propped the door open to the poultry tractor so they could go in and out forfood and water. After we had the crazy wind that started a lot of...
by admin | Oct 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
Solar Panels are Finally Generating Power If you have read our blogs in the past, you may remember an intro-to-solar blog in January, then a solar update in May. Well, here is the final of the saga. Solar panels installed on barn To quickly bring you up to speed with...
by admin | Sep 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
As we clean up the ash from the nearby fires and get our lives back in order this week, we have made some shifts in animals (just like in life). Peyton finally started school this week, only about a month later than normal, which is actually very good considering how...
by admin | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
What a week Well, we have missed a couple weeks of blogs; not because we have wanted to, but just so much craziness going on. As most of you know, Oregon is riddled with wildfires right now. There are two fires near Molalla, one south and one East of town. They were...
by admin | Aug 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, we picked up out last shipment of poultry birds for the year. 50 laying ducks called Kaki Campbells. How ducks are shipped, through USPS Ducks typically begin laying eggs at 4 months. They roughly lay one egg a day during the spring and early...
by admin | Aug 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
It is very rare, but ‘sometimes’ we spend time working on projects ‘inside’ the house. We have wanted to replace the carpet in the bedrooms since we moved into the house but just never had the time or made it a priority. About two years ago we turned our main...
by admin | Aug 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Have you ever had a list of things you wanted to get done for the week, and at the end of the week nothing off it is done? Well that was kind of our week! In the front yard near the main water line into the house, we started seeing a puddle of water. We had this...
by admin | Jul 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
This morning I went to the post office and picked up 50 new Whiting True Blue laying chicks. These birds will lay blue eggs or what are often called “Easter Eggs.” 6AM post office pick up Due to the hot days over the last week, I was worried we would have...
by admin | Jul 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
This last Saturday was out yearly Cornish Cross meat chicken butcher party. We originally received 100 meat chickens. Through the course of the last nine weeks, we lost 42 birds. This is a huge loss when each bird initially costs $4, the effort to raise these birds is...
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