October 2, 2012 pigs Pigz Eat Farmer! (not me) I couldn't pass up this headline - especially since a bunch of my pals sent it to me last nite. Consider yourselves warned! "70-yea...
October 1, 2012 pigs The Real Battle... I mean.. Butcher Day We had such a great weekend! Finally we found time to butcher the first of our four hogs. It was a great day and we learned alot about the g...
September 29, 2012 The Battle Season Begins Commander Zander FoeHamer was covered up to his shoulders in the blood of his enemy. His massive head barely fit inside the dead animal'...
September 27, 2012 farm life garden Tech Troubles and MEN Unfortunately both my camera and my laptop are giving me fits lately. So apologies to everyone who has been kind enough to leave comments - ...
September 25, 2012 pigs rant World Wide Bacon Shortage? A Porkocalypse?!? Oh friends I knew it was coming..... Have you seen the shocking headlines? Porkocalypse: Next Year May Bring a Worldwide Bacon Shortage Baco...
September 24, 2012 goats Drying Out Dahlia At this writing the temperature is hovering at 33* - looks like not only will we have our first frost...but looks like we went straight to a...
September 23, 2012 kitchen Canning Green Beans Is everyone canning green beans? I got a great deal on a beautiful bushel of green beans from an Amish neighbor. They were stunning.... I go...
September 19, 2012 farm life Working on the alfalfa field One of the projects we want to get going is our own source of hay. This was a bad hay year - it was so dry that most farmers could not get e...
September 18, 2012 farm life pigs Taking Down the Big Sunflowers I couldn't wait any longer and spent yesterday taking down the big sunflower garden. I hated doing it because it was my favorite garden....
September 17, 2012 kitchen Putting Up Peppers and Corn I'm still digging my way out from under all those baskets of peppers I scored last week . Luckily I'm down to the last 2 or 3 pepper...