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Raccoon

June 21, 2010

While I was washing dishes this evening  I happened to look out the window and what should I see lumbering across the yard? A raccoon!  Now, it was 5 o’clock and certainly not the hour any raccoon should be out – I think it must be sick.  The chickens were all scratching around the yard – [...]

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Use for Old Wood

June 21, 2010

We re-did our deck this spring.   The deck was painted and peeling when we moved in 6 years ago (advise: DO NOT paint a wood deck). Brian scraped and re-painted 2 years ago, however, it was once again peeling, and just darn nasty.   Due to our increase in 4-H animals this year we (Brian and the boys) were going to need [...]

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Life Among the Chickens

June 9, 2010

We have over 40 birds right now, this may sound like a lot – but the majority are “meat birds” known as broilers and will be gone by fair time (3-4 weeks).  Broilers  are not pretty birds by any stretch of the imagination.  Sure, they are cute and cuddly the week you get them – [...]

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Yard Chotcheke’s

June 8, 2010

Add some color, whimsy and fun to your garden/yard with decorations.  Throughout my yard I have frogs, chickens, snails, ants, roosters, birdhouses and more.  Some of these things were in my house at one time and I decided to move them outdoors, other items were picked up with the intention of putting them outdoors.  I have [...]

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Barn Swallows

June 3, 2010

We had a mother barn swallow who decided to build her nest above one of our windows on the front porch.   This went unnoticed until last weekend – and today I saw some birds up there, not sure if the babies have hatched yet – I think this is a male and female.  Unfortunately they made quite a muddy [...]

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Decorating With Metal Signs

June 1, 2010

I love those metal signs made to look like old advertisements. I have several and they were hanging on the side of an old out building.  Last fall we tore down the building  leaving all of the signs homeless.  This spring after we put up a new farm fence, I hung them onto part of the fence.     I simply attached them with pieces of wire [...]

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Pigs

May 31, 2010

I think they thought they were getting out today – no such luck fellas…it is much too hot today to be running around the yard again!

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Storing Yard Tools

May 31, 2010

Shovels and rakes are used all of the time.  As I have mentioned in the past, I am NOT the most diligant at putting things back where they go (outside that is – inside complete opposite!).  To help with this we put a series of nails on the side of a small old out building in our [...]

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Pig Update

May 25, 2010

I will start out with a quote from a friend when referring to my family ”they are city people and have no business having large farm animals”   Last Saturday started like all others, kids getting up and eating breakfast much later than my husband, Brian, would like.  A never ending list of things to do today.  A [...]

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Flower Pots

May 25, 2010

I started planting our flower pots this last weekend.  I like to use something other than the plastic/terra cotta pots if I can, although I do use some of these too.  My favorite are  old galvanized buckets.  You can usually pick these up at sales during the summer for 2-5 bucks.  This year I planted [...]

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