Last night’s storm tore a chunk of wall off our shop, much to our surprise: And back to normal after Darren nailed the missing pieces back on:
Just looked out the window, and caught sight of Davin in the yard. It seems he has taken yesterday’s metal cage we used to transport the sheep, turned it on its side, put a plastic bin in there to hide behind, and one of the lawn chairs. He is now currently sitting in his little [...]
Continue reading about A Developing Hunter or at least a Sheep Stake-out
We have 4 new additions to the farm and more coming in the next weeks! We’ve acquired 3 sheep (destined for my freezer and dinner table) and a goat as of yesterday. It was an adventure getting them home since we don’t have a stock trailer, but one trip to the junkyard did the trick. [...]
Well, it’s been a few months since I posted and as life always gives you the unexpected, we’ve had a wild ride this summer into fall. Typically my family will “reboot itself” every September in some fashion and this year has been no exception, but with the addition of being extremely intense! We gambled our [...]
Continue reading about Settled in to the new farm, looking ahead for next season
The storm that spawned this red rainbow also spawned grape-sized hail near Busby Alberta. Watching the clouds roll over our house was fascinating yet somewhat alarming since they were some pretty nasty clouds! It’s tornado season here, so whenever the storm warnings pop onto my cell phone, I have a look at the radar if [...]
Continue reading about Red Rainbow from last weekend’s storm
Well, our move to the new farm is finally complete! All of the plants I had growing outside our old place in town are really loving the new digs and flourishing. We are getting regular occurrences of rain to keep things watered and our rain barrel is always overfull. One of our many things on [...]
Continue reading about Getting Settled In & New Addition to the Family
Well, things have been silent on the blog for good reason! All this past month we have been in the throws of moving to…..A FARM!!! W00-HOO!! After many years of dreaming then planning for it, we got the chance of a lifetime to jumpstart our plans 5-10 years ahead of when we’d planned to be [...]
Continue reading about Big News! The garden has been "upgraded" for next year!
It’s been really cold this month so far with only 1 decent week to be had over 20C. There are tons and tons of green tomatoes maturing in all 3 gardens, and only a few starting to change to their mature colours. I’d’ve expected by now that I’d be swimming in ripe tomatoes but that [...]
Continue reading about Dog days of August…or should I say FOG days?
So the weeds came with a vengeance this week. This will not be fun to pick since while on vacation I nearly had to go into Emergency with some really bad intestinal pain. It’s taken days for it to go away and is only a bit sore now unless I move the wrong way. I [...]
Continue reading about Back from Vacation and wow lots of weeds!
I’m on vacation all this week and have left Darren in charge of weeding and watering! It’ll be nice to have a brief time off before everything starts producing. This last week I planted out in a pot in the front yard, another gourd seedling since Not as many germinated that I had hoped. It’ll [...]
