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Showing posts with label my hunky farmguy 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label my hunky farmguy 2. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 27
Wednesday, July 24
Wednesday, April 24
Wednesday, April 10
Wordless Wednesday Late Night Dose of Chicken Cute
More photos below (hover over each image for a description). . .
Sunday, December 2
Sunday Farm Photo: Hello, December.
We're getting ready for you.
The calendar may say December, but the thermometer here in Missouri says it's a balmy 70 degrees. Two days ago I was watering the kitchen garden. It's a little disconcerting. But those 20-degree nights will be back soon, so on Friday afternoon my hunky farmguy Joe set out with his chainsaw to start turning the huge oak tree that fell during a storm back in July into a nice big stack of firewood.
Yesterday we went to town and bought 500 pounds of sheep feed, 30 pounds of flour, several bags of chocolate chips and toffee bits (I'm making these scrumptious baby shortbread cookies for gifts), and an extra five-gallon gas can. Tomorrow we'll head out in another direction to have some work done on our 'new' (2002) main truck, then pick up some other parts for it and the '81 flat bed ton truck, along with 100 pounds of dog food, a case of Irish malt for brewing beer, and a new stack of books and audio books from the library.
When bad weather hits, we'll be ready.
If you'd rather hunker down at home than face the holiday crowds, check out my Holiday Gift Ideas for Bakers and Cooks: 15 Favorite Kitchen Essentials, Most Under $25. These are the kitchen tools that I love and use all the time. Whether you're buying for yourself or someone else, they're sure to be appreciated for many years to come.
And if you're looking for a useful gift or stocking stuffer that's under $10, how about with these handy dandy Fiskars Take-Apart Softgrip Garden Shears ($8.35). I have two pairs and have used them nearly every day for the past year and a half. I rave more about them here.
Thanks so much to all of you who have been starting your amazon shopping trips at a Farmgirl Fare amazon.com link. We receive a small commission no matter what you end up buying, and I can't tell you how much we appreciate your kind support.
© FarmgirlFare.com, the cold weather loving foodie farm blog where the two three tubs packed with polar fleece are ready and waiting. Bring it on!
Wednesday, August 15
Wednesday, July 25
Wordless Wednesday Dose of Cute: Farm Version of the Pied Piper
Thursday, December 15
Thursday Dose of Cute: Heading Out to Graze
Working the sheep always works up an appetite—for everybody involved.
More sheep? Here.
More hunky farmguy? Here.
More of the front field? Here.
© FarmgirlFare.com, where everybody's happy we still have a little fresh grass in the fields. The season of eating all hay, all day will be here soon enough!
Wednesday, October 19
Monday, October 3
Monday Dose of Cute: No Dumb Clucks Here
"I'm surprised Cheeky and Mr. Fancy Pants can even still walk," my hunky farmguy Joe said one evening as we were finishing up chores and tucking in the chickens for the night.
"Why?"
"Because they spent the whole afternoon following me around while I mowed the grass, feasting on all the bugs I scared up. They've been eating non-stop for hours."
"That's pretty cute—and smart."
"Oh, those two know where the good stuff is alright."
A few days later I was able to see them in action myself—and couldn't stop laughing at the whole scene.
Lots more photos below. . .
Saturday, August 20
Saturday, June 25
Saturday Farm Photo: Done!
At least for now.
Three weeks, five cuttings, several gallons of ice water, 695 bales of hay neatly stacked in the pole barn. It's definitely a record.
The entire hayfield has been cut, except for the sloped section you can see above where the grass was too thin to bother. During several of the past years we weren't, for various reasons, even able to get the whole hayfield cut. In better years we would have ended up with a lot more than 695 bales, but at least these all look pretty good.
We're still 205 bales shy of our 900 bale goal, so the plan—weather and everything else permitting—is to re-cut some of the hayfield in three or four weeks, once the summer grass is taller but before it starts to go to seed and/or burn up. We don't usually do this, but we're hopeful it'll work out.
More about haying below. . .
Saturday, June 18
Saturday Farm Photo: Slowly but Surely
We're bringing in the hay
We added another 105 bales of hay to our ever growing stack in the barn, which, after five cuttings (including one small test cutting back in May where we only got two dozen bales instead of the expected 50 to 60) brings us to a total of 550. Good, but still quite a ways from our goal of 900.
We had hoped to take a few days off from the hayfield before cutting again, but the weather forecast says hot, hot, hot, now, now, now, followed by rain (yay) and then, finally, a break in the relentless heat (double yay), so it's now or quite possibly never. If all goes well, Joe will be cutting the last big section of the hayfield tomorrow, and on Monday we'll be back out picking up bales.
That won't get us to 900, so the plan is to re-cut some of the hayfield later in the summer, once the warm weather grass gets thick and tall enough. Our climate and grasses don't normally lend themselves to double cuttings, but everything about this haying season has been a little different than usual, so we're hopeful that it will all work out.
Just joining us for haying season? Put on your work gloves and catch up:
6/6/11: New Hay Inspectors
6/11/11: Jump Down, Turn Around. . .
6/13/11: It's Filling Up
The Daily Donkey 129: You Can Lean on Me, Little Brother
© FarmgirlFare.com, where you know it was going to happen eventually. Turns out today's Daily Donkey is suspiciously similar to a photo some of you may remember from back in December 2009 (though it isn't actually the same one). I'm blaming my heat melted brain—but still love it the second time around.
Sunday, June 12
Saturday, May 14
Saturday Dose of Cute: Sometimes It's Safer. . .
If you keep a gate between you and the donkeys at treat time.
More photos below. . .
Sunday, May 1
Sunday Dose of Cute and Farm Life: It Was Sheep Working Weekend!
One sneaky little lamb tried to escape, but my hunky farmguy hopped the fence and saved the day.
Now that lambing season—which lasted less than a month!—seems to be over (it doesn't look like that last ewe is pregnant), it's time to focus on other things, like keeping the sheep in tiptop condition. This means working them, which is always so much fun! Not.
More below. . .
Saturday, April 23
Saturday Night Dose of Cute: I'm Not the Only One. . .
Who loves my hunky farmguy.
The Daily Donkey 77: Gnat Gnaws on the Mineral Feeder
© FarmgirlFare.com, where hunky farmguys need to maintain their manly image, so don't tell Joe I posted these cuddly photos of him!
Friday, January 14
Friday Dose of Cute: This Moment
A single photo capturing a moment from the week I want to pause, savor, and remember. Inspired by SouleMama.
Another moment:
9/17/10: Daisy and Gus
Thursday, November 11
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