I am looking for anyone who has some good karma to lend… I feel like I have been cast in an alternate reality: the animal hospital planet! I am so glad that it’s the summer and I am not rushing off to work every morning. Not only does the ram Kyra’s Boy have a leg [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Alternate Reality, Anyone?
Posted in Family, Pets, tagged dogs on July 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Sheep Doctoring Update
Posted in Farming, Sheep, tagged rams on July 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It’s 6 days since we had Kyra’s Boy at the vet for his leg ailment. He seems to be coming along; the leg is less swollen and it’s draining a lot less. He’s on the heavy-duty meds, eating well, and is taking it easy, but calling for his meals from his sickbed! [...]
Lobster and Shrimp to the Rescue!
Posted in Cheese, Farming, Maine, Pemaquid Peninsula, chickens, tagged chicken crates, lobster, shrimp, traps on July 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We have been scrimping on everything these days as, like everyone else, we are trying to make ends meet and make do with less. We try to think creatively, and recently we feel we really got onto something good! When we take our chickens to the butcher we need to put them into [...]
Sheep Doctoring. In the Rain (what a surprise).
Posted in Farming, Sheep, Weather, tagged rain, rams, vets on July 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I feel like Nurse Nina this week. Our beloved ram, Kyra’s Boy, has been ailing. Late last week he was down in the pasture with his alter-ego, Mr. Big, when we found that he had a swollen and lame back leg. Usually we see a lame front leg if one of the sheep or goats [...]
HyperTufa Fun
Posted in 1, tagged hypertufa, planter on July 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday a group of us had an opportunity to join Dan and Ali of Henbogle and Signs of Maine at their lovely home and got dirty! They taught us how to create HyperTufa objects (a mixture of things that allow you to form planters and outdoor containers). It was one of the few really beautiful [...]
Out to Pasture
Posted in Farming, Maine, Sheep, Weather on July 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is the back of John’s truck awhile ago when we actually had a break in the rain. We had had to dig our rolls of electric fence out of the field where they had been rolled and stacked last fall, and then snowed upon before we got them home. If it looks [...]
Piggies In, Chickens Out
Posted in Farm, Farming, Food, Pigs, chickens, tagged Large Black pigs, Tamworth pigs, Cornish X chickens on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love it when we find balance on the farm. Our daily life is very routine-oriented and when anything changes that routine, it takes me almost a week to fine-tune how my chore times look. Maybe I am slow to adapt, I don’t know!
As our farm goes, we try not to have too many different [...]
Finally! All Kids have joined the party :*)
Posted in Farming, LaMancha Goats, goats, tagged kidding on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think that I can finally get to bed at my usual earlier hour again! Yesterday morning I got out to chores a little on the later side (as I am totally dragging, having to stay up until 11 or 11:30 to check on our expectant mom) and couldn’t see Snow Pea’s face through [...]
