Who knew that living on a hobby farm could be so exciting!
Yesterday I went to the pen to let Otis out as I do every morning. I opened up the little door to his pen which leads outside and was greeted by the bright eyes and upright ears of my outside bunny Sadie! She had [...]
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Well, Poppy is settling in nicely. He does have a new name now, too. I’ve decided to name him Otis. And (unfortunately) I’ve started calling him Otis the Goatis. I know, I know, it’s bad. But there it is, that’s what his name is! LOL!
I’m just waiting to hear back about some chickens too. The [...]
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It’s been a while since I added new photo’s so I thought today was a good time to do that. Actually, I’ve been using the main computer that is set up all the time, rather than my laptop where the photo’s are kept. So, really, it’s sheer laziness that I haven’t pulled this one out [...]
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I need help from those who read this blog and who know a thing or two about chickens.
Friends of ours will have some chicks for us in just a few weeks. I’m horribly excited, to tell the truth!
What I need to find out is, do I really need a rooster? I don’t have plans of [...]
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We moved here from a small town. It was the sort of place where everyone kept to themselves for the most part. You take care of your things, I’ll take care of mine and when people got together, they complained about how things should be, but no one really made a concious effort to change [...]
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It has been brought to my attention (thank you Roberta!) that I haven’t shared our plans for the store we want to open.
Of course we’re very much in the planning/wishing stage, but here are the basics.
The store will have eco-friendly produce and products. Handmade soap, candles, reusable shopping bags, all natural dishcloths (which I will knit and crochet) and [...]
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Farm fresh eggs. I can’t wait! We’re getting chickens, probably sometime next week. We just need to do a bit of work on the chicken coop and we’re good to go. All we need is a door to let them in and out and some nesting boxes and that’s it. A day’s work will have [...]
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Well, we’ve got a start on our new way of disposing our household and food waste.
Yesterday we got our composters dug out. They obviously hadn’t been used in a while. They were too overgrown with no path to them. But they’re cleared out now and are being fed regularly.
In our freezer we have a pail [...]
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Being out in the country now, there is no garbage pick up. We didn’t expect there to be, but it’s still something to get used to. We have recycling, but we have to take it to the landfill ourselves. Not a big deal, just one more thing to get used to.
However, garbage is expensive. We [...]
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