The ducklings hatched one week ago, and their rate of growth is impressive. Here are photos from yesterday, when Midnight took them for their first field trip to the dandelion patch just outside the barn. Does this spark any early memories of your own field trips or vacations? If so, please leave a comment – [...]
Posts Tagged ‘farm’
1 Mar
In Like a Lion…
It’s been pretty crazy-busy here at the Flying T (and at our other activities, including the professions that support them), and looking back I can see it’s been nearly three weeks since our last post. It’s not that we didn’t have anything about which to write – we actually have a ton of material, especially [...]
16 Feb
Unsung Heroes
We’ve lived all over the United States and a bit of time outside the country as well, and we’ve met a lot of great people from all walks of life in the process. However, one group of wonderful folks we really didn’t get to know before we moved out to our farm. Boy, have we [...]
12 Feb
The Versatile Blogger Award
Thank you, Granny, for nominating us for the Versatile Blogger Award. As many of you know, Granny’s Parlour is a blog written from Vermont about many of the simpler and wonderful things in country life. On a given day, her posts might include a recipe, a look at a holiday tradition, gardening tips, or thoughts [...]
24 Dec
An Agrarian Christmas
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. – Luke 2:8 Though we grew up hearing this verse that starts the story of the first visitors to Christ’s birth, the only concept we had about what shepherds were in that time were idealized images of pastel-robed [...]
14 Dec
The Flying T Spa
Upon reflection, and after unloading and stacking ~240 bales this afternoon with the assistance of my oldest daughter and Kevin from 3D Farm Products, I have come to the realization that there are few things more redundant than owning both a farm and a gym membership. That got me thinking more. People are shelling out [...]
4 Dec
Night Pics
My daughter and I snuck in after bedtime to take some pics of the barn at night. What’s your favorite thing about being outdoors at night? Any great memories?
30 Nov
Farmcycling Project – Chicken Water Heater
Though the winter is setting in reluctantly, we have had a few cold nights where the chicken’s water iced up. A quick check at the feed store, Tractor Supply, and Amazon found chicken waterers like this: Unfortunately, the cost of one of these babies is between $40 and $50. That’s a lot of chicken feed! [...]
18 Nov
Another Rock in the Wall
With the unseasonably warm days we had in the beginning of November, we put some of our other work (including some of the kids’ studies) aside and got to work improving our rear pasture. The rear pasture is about 1.25 acres and “rough” to say the least. Based on the size of the poisonous pin cherries [...]
11 Nov
Changing Seasons at The Flying T
This is the first cut of a video I’m putting together of the change of seasons at our ranch. This is approximately .5 seconds per day fom Sep to Nov. I plan to put the whole year on the final version.
A Joyful Birth
