Another Great Day With A Pocket Full of Hay
2019 Spring Edition This week was another week where I have been behind. My mother in law was still in hospital and so extras are only getting caught up on now. Short and sweet is the way to go. In Animal News This week our sheep got a hair cut, just in time for the …
2019 Spring Edition The sun is shining and the days are warm. I plan on keeping this brief so I can bask in the sun and get stuff done. I also had a family member go to hospital making the blog slow to get moving but I’m here and this post has been worked on …
2019 Spring Edition This week went from freezing and yuck to sunshine and glorious. The weekend (a long one in New Zealand and traditionally time to put the tomatoes in the garden) was so beautiful the sun shone and I felt hot. I loved it so much that when the weekend was over and the …
Project pig is in full swing, six spring piglets arrived on the farm and they could not be cuter. I am so excited to have them here and even more excited to put them to work clearing the forest but first they need to get a little bigger. The piglets have been slowly warming to …
2019 Spring edition In Animal News Exciting times for the pigs this week. They all officially have names You can go here to read them all). I am not sure what everyone’s stance is when it comes to naming animals that are for the plate. I kind of feel that even if you do not …
2019 Spring edition What can I say about this week in general except that the mood swings of spring are hard. If the sun is out I want to be out. If the sun us behind clouds then I want to be inside. That makes things difficult with only one or two days of sun… …
Farming is hard sometimes things die or snails eat your seedlings, sometimes things do not germinate or the grass is slower to grow than you hope. But then magic happens on the farm and all that badness is forgotten and elation sets in. One of the things that makes farming worth while is chicks. These …
There is a time at the precipice of spring when the world is muddy and soggy. You cant walk anywhere without becoming covered in mud. Saturation point has been reached and everywhere is pools of water —Toe deep in puddles —This is when, for a moment, one might think, will spring really come? Will the …
2019 Spring Edition What a week, I had a hard time getting myself motivated this week. The whole daylight savings thing threw me. Then the kids had a whirlwind sickness that came and went within a few days but left me behind on sleep. Since I was feeling so sluggish I went through my records …
2019 edition Today I am going to share what happened last week on the farm. Spring is really here the temperatures while chilly are not freezing and a fair bit of rain still making it hard to want to get outside. Daylight savings happened, funny thing is my animals didn’t get the memo and I …
