Blind Hog and Acorn

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...

Garden is booming, but then so is the grass all around the raised beds.  Acorn's ultimate solution?  MAKE MORE RAISED BEDS!

Blind Hog is finding he likes working with the new Kioti, or Lil' Monkey as Acorn calls it.  The "Kuboki..."  Little tractor has plenty of power, that's for sure!

Springfield house will be needing sewer lateral line replacement...  Getting bids on that.

Roses got planted., need to work th...

Phew!  Acorn has been a schwetty puddle lately... Chores are sporadic- out for an hour then back in to recover.  Driving up to the post office is a lovely way to cool down, according to Acorn...  Driving ANYWHERE has been better than melting.  Blind Hog and Acorn took the kiddos to Crystal Bridges to see the KAWS exhibit.  Was a good way to spend a very hot day.

Roses have been procured, marked down 50%.  JUST what a farm needs, lol...

Been a busy enough week...  Usual farm chores, some landscape work at the Springfield house...

Miss Massey Has a new home- guy who lives about 2 miles away as the crow flies needed a tractor and voila!  Blind Hog and Acorn had just the ticket.  The farmers followed the buyer home  as he had to go the long way around due to the bridge construction, so he got a good 45+ minute test drive.  Miss Massey did brilliantly up the paved seco...

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 ...