Blind Hog and Acorn

Busy enough week on the farm- got those bucklings sold and doelings listed for sale.  Garden is kicking in, Blind Hog has been doing yard and driveway work and even supervised and fetched so Acorn could change the shocks on the old F350.

Acorn canned up some baked beans, brat buns, and pickled slaw.  Pretty darn tasty!

Blind Hog wants sun canopies for the tractors so Acorn looked online, then thought "I wonder if people do these...

Blind Hog and Acorn have been at it, busy enough for sure.  Biggest  accomplishment was getting the bucklings all gathered up and taken to market.  Phew!   Done and Done!

Acorn had a couple physical therapy appointments, one with dry needling.  Is just awesome.  Will continue PT once a week now for the next four weeks.

Garden is growing, produce harvested and canned.  Meg's pumpkins threaten to take over the garden.  Had the fir...

Between fence repairs, Sam's misadventures (killing a cat and then a few days later getting stung and swelling up), working in the hot/humid weather, the farmers decided to get a new small tractor and sell Miss Massey.  A small tractor WITH front end loader is most clever and no doubt will work just fine on the farm.

Now to sell the Massey Ferguson to its next good home.

Mom sent along a counter top ice machine- the Icy Pebbles ...

After a fun filled week on the farm, nothing says "let's take it easy" better than attending a "No Kings" protest in a strongly Republican town. Blind Hog and Acorn were flipped the bird several times, several pro-Trump drivers kept coming back, honking their horns, letting loose with air horns.  Not sure if they knew that their behavior was exactly what the other folks were doing while driving to support t...

All 60 nannies and kids were run through the working station- tagged, vaccinated, dewormed, castrated, weighed and feet trimmed.  Took 8 hrs and several liters of water, including four breaks.  Blind Hog and Acorn almost fell out.  Good news is that the job is DONE!  The scales however gave crazy readings.  Will have to work on that some more...

The last goose eggs hatched.  One buyer is taking every gosling that hatches and luckily...

Blind Hog is clipping the fields, already "that time" again...  Early blast of summer temps at the farm, upper 80's!  he has the first three paddocks done, a couple more on the west side then he can do the two in the east.

Acorn has been wrangling black snakes from around the geese and chickens... The snakes do love eggs...

Garden is coming along nicely- strawberries ripening. Almost time to plant pole beans.  Sweet po...

Acorn was complaining about lagging internet speeds and dropped cell signal, so she and Blind Hog raided up the cell phone amplifier antenna higher on the roof- moving it to the peak as well as puttin git on a 10' mast.  Already speeds have increased from -114 dB to -102 dB and sometimes even faster!  it is the little things...

Garden doing well, had its first irrigation today.  Sam has been enjoying almost daily walkies for 2....

Rain is back and well needed- that last deluge all ran off.  Still no morels found but Acorn did see asparagus in the garden today!

5 lil' honkers off to their new home, more eggs in the incubator and some still under an actual goose.  Acorn rescued an egg from a black snake, may think about bringing in the other eggs for artificial incubation if the gooses don't settle down on them.

House is getting cleaned, screens up in ...

Three goslings hatched so far, another has pipped.  Two males, one female.  They are just so stinkin' cute.

Blind Hog sold all his pottery equipment, tools and materials to a newbie from northern Missouri.  She and her husband delivered Highland heifers 2 hrs from us, then swung over and we loaded them up.  Swedish Death Cleaning continues!!!

Weather has been mostly nice, no more rains since the weekend and yes, the county DID c...

Finally got the rain, and as of this writing, Acorn reports 5.38" which is in the 5-7" rain in the forecast.  During the first round, Acorn noticed flapping sheet metal on the old goat barn rood- during a "window of opportunity" Blind Hog fetched the Mahindra and Acorn clambered up the roof, screwing down the loose panels.  All fixed!

Between roof repairs, working in the garden, baking bread and scone Acorn manag...

Weeklong wildfires to the south of the farm- Acorn's throat is none too happy.  Smoke haze thick at times, hills looking right blue.

Purple martins beginning to hang around- will need to get the gourds up soon.  

Watercress spring is providing fresh greens for the geese- Acorn spotted minnows for the first time there.

Blind Hog aggravated a shoulder as he cut then loaded up dead trees and limbs after the big windstorm.  Good thin...

Wellll, Acorn has Blind Hog's sinus crud...  Started as viral, is now bacterial.  Ugh...  No rest for the midwife, and the last big rush of kidding got completed.  Just a few stragglers now to go over the next few weeks.

Geese are a-laying, which is a great harbinger of Spring.  Counting the ganders, there are "six geese a laying..."

Rhubarb is sending its knuckles up, starter trays being prepped for seeds.

Little pig-n...

Blind Hog has a cold...  Or the flu...  Not sure, but it ain't Covid.  Had a low temp of 100.2°F today, coughing, drainage, overall malaise...  Acorn has a scratchy throat but thinks it is elm pollen...

Five nannies kidded, seven more to go.  Had a set of triplets along with a pair of twins yesterday- one of the twins having a malformed snout.  Most peculiar.  Is it a genetic issue, or teratogen issue from the toxin in poi...