Building a solar farm on the homestead Winter of 2021 going into 2022 brought some of the usual winter weather issues, cold, snow, ice, freezing rain and sleet, along with some sunshine. The previous year brought freezing rain as well, with most of it going south of us. Problem with freezing rain is that it…
Milling some cedar We have been clearing some trees from the orchard area and also some from east of the house where we are converting some woods area into some silvopasture. The orchard area had a variety of hardwoods, oak, hickory, black walnut, wild cherry and some pine and cedar. We have been cutting those…
Goosey had gone broody a couple weeks ago. After she sat on her eggs for acouple days, I removed her eggs a couple at a time until she had no eggsleft. She sees the empty nest, and went about her normal routine. No more broody goose, until Lucy decides it’s her turn. She took overGoosey’s…
From mid August 2020 through the end of 2021, the homestead has been in something of a tizzy. While the virus pandemic has been the major focus for much of the world, not so much here. Kris became ill with what turned out to be a spinal infection which required surgery to clear. While the…