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Wildfires & Evacuations

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...

New Ducks

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...

Vinyl Flooring

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...

What a Week

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...

Whiting True Blue Chicks

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...

Chicken & Emu Butcher

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...