Blind Hog and Acorn

The weather is just CRAZY!  Farmers are not really complaining about the 30-40+ temps above the usual average for this time of year, but 82F going to 30F for highs?  That is just not fair.

A very merry Christmas was held at the farm and what follows is Acorn's birthday a couple days later.  Feasting on herring and pumpkin  pie, and a wonderful Bundt cake, both made by Savi.

Goats kids are doing well, all is swell at the farm...

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Blind Hog and Acorn have been getting all the chores done, and even took a day off to go to KC to shop at REI and IKEA.  How else was Blind Hog going to get Acorn to sit down for 7 hrs except to drive?  

Farm chores are pretty much caught up now, Blind Hog should have little to worry about, save for goats kidding on his watch.  Acorn figures she will be able to get up and about in three solid weeks.

Happy Thanksgiving from us on the ...

Lots getting done- barns scraped and dirt floors limed, garden just about ready to say goodnight for the winter, and the Subaru got new tires and an oil change.  A 2 hr long oil change...  Acorn says never, ever again...

Blind Hog is moving old firewood so new firewood an cage, with the oldest to be used first.

Soups, cakes, cookies, breads, casseroles, meats, etc all being whipped up and frozen in preparation for Acorn's "...

Blind Hog and Acorn went to a guy not too far away who had a plethora of bamboo that he lets folks dig in the Fall,  FOR FREE!!!  Seven three-gallon nursery containers got loaded up with bamboo plants ranging from 12" to 48".  Acorn is quite pleased.

House plants and the last of the squash ere brought in and not a minute too soon.  The next morning was a real freeze.  The last of the tomatoes are ripening on their own in t...

A week of wood splitting, cooking, and treating a goat with hind leg paralysis.  Acorn gave the goat 30% chance of recovery at first, and danged if the nanny did not pull through.  Is almost 80% better now and for a goat whose rear right leg was totally free of tone and only a little muscle strength in her left rear leg, she is now standing and walking about.  Treated for goat polio one day then meningeal worm for 6 days.  Acorn do...

Blind Hog and Acorn attended not one but TWO No Kings protests.  It was amazing and so refreshing to see so many smiling, happy people.  First in the local small town with an attendance of 78, then to a much larger rally in Springfield. Downpours were taken in stride as the rain was most welcomed and it literally and figuratively did not dampen the mood.

Farm chores for winter begun.  Acorn will be "out of service" from Th...

German Extra Hardy is the variety of garlic and this was the second harvest year for heads purchased in 2023.  Obviously the variety agrees with the Ozarks' soil.

Blind Hog and Acorn been doin' the usual farm chores.  Firewood getting brought in and cut, put away.  Acorn surprised Blind Hog with a fire in the woodstove- a most peculiar day when it looked like the highs might be under 60F.  Did not last long once the clouds...

After ten months of planning, Blind Hog and Acorn had a great two weeks away.   Helsinki, Tallinn, Oslo and Aurland were awesome. Lots of museums, sites, friends made new and old.  Farm-sitters reported no issues and also had a relaxing time away from the city.

Now it is time for fall chores:  goat breeding, garlic planting, bean shelling, wood stacking.

Dorothy said "there's no place like home" but that does not mean ...

Still no rain at the farm...  Talk about dusty dry...  Ugh...  A few odd nannies were taken to the sale barn this morning- leaves Acorn with four dairy girls and the rest of the herd is either 50%-75% Savanna, just as was planned.  Kidding will bring the 88% and it is all uphill from there...

New dishwasher installed.  All should be good and fingers crossed will stay that way.  Blind Hog and Acorn will be on a 14-day holiday to the ...

It has been a hot week of home repairs and late nights....  Hot water heater, pantry sink faucet, kitchen faucet, dishwasher...  Some things were fixed, others had to be replaced...  

Other than that, the house is getting a good deep cleaning, Blind hog has been doing "dozer work" with the Mahindra, and Sam got himself joyfully skunked.  He was so proud.

Blind hog also had to clean out varmint nests in the Tracker's en...

The week started hot and ended hotter...

Bling Hog and Acorn ditched work for riding around in the air conditioned car, some shopping was done...

Springfield house had another sewer clog, 17 days after the cleanout was put in due to a clog.  Acorn called a company that gave a good bid for sewer lateral replacement, and it was started the next day!

Goat mineral has been reformulated now that the cows are all gone.  Mineral feeders gett...