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A while (a long while) back I was asked how the bees are doing — I’ve been pretty silent about them since I got them in April. This was largely motivated by despair. It turned out that the startup costs of keeping hives were too much for me this year, and I didn’t get [...] Some hay piled up and it looks like some critters have moved in. Any thoughts on how to get rid of them? We’ve been quiet for a while because we’ve been busy (as usual, I know) with lots of things. Many of our blog readers have probably met Garth’s good old dog Oscar, who trotted around happily and healthily until he suddenly didn’t, and couldn’t, because he’d stopped eating. After several visits to the vet, [...] I have all these tabs open so I don’t lose track of the recipes, but my browser is starting to drag … so that I can close them, here is what we have been making, in no particular order: Portuguese-ish clams and sausage, except I basically barely followed the recipe. I used soft, [...] We’re still here, just swamped with chickens1, turkeys2, goats3, the garden such at it is4, Grandma5, and Oscar6. — 1. Yes there will be broilers, process date June 18. Order form coming … eventually. Another batch will be arriving on the 8th, so ready mid-August. 2. More hatchery drama this year — the [...] Here’s what’s up in Spring 2011. Hmm, why on earth would there be a mouth-shaped chunk taken out of my Small-Scale Goatkeeping book? The culprit Her accomplice aka baby Upcoming new newses: bees tomorrow. One more goatlet on Sunday, a yearling who we’ll breed as soon as she’s [...] G: Prefer garlic scapes to turkey ‘scapes. Less hurty. L: Yikes!! G: But they got a size on them and hella vigor. Should store h2o2 in the truck I reckon. (On edit) Lauren suggests that I clarify that h2o2 is hydrogen peroxide and that I include the photo I took [...] It’s our third year with poultry, and the raccoons have finally found us. We are down to one laying duck (from four) — they took one on Sunday, one on Monday, and one on Tuesday. So the hens and remaining survivor duck are all staying inside the coop until we can figure out [...] The fridge was full and I was overwhelmed with options … How to divide up one serving of fried chicken, one serving of pot roast, four leftover egg whites, and 2+ servings of potato parsnip gratin? I was just starting to try to figure out how to decide who gets the pot roast sandwich [...] So, we really dropped the ball on keeping everyone updated on the broiler chickens via the website. We really intended to, but it turned out that 150 chickens took up kind of a lot of time. So, here’s a retrospective of their lives … The chickens (affectionately known as nuggets) moved to pasture [...] Every day I think “Oh I’ll blog about this interesting thing tonight,” or I take a picture and fully intend to post it, and every day I do not manage to do so. Tons is going on here and even though I am now taking vacation from work on Fridays to stay home and [...] … but we got to stretch two days’ worth of work out over three days, and a good thing too — it was too hot to work outside between 12 and 4ish every day this weekend, so we got to take breaks and drink gins and tonic and read our books. But all the [...] |
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