March Farm Update

I know, it’s been a while since my last post.  We’ve had some nasty cold weather, nice warm weather (I actually turned off the heated seat in my car a couple of times!), and a bunch of snow a few times since then.  Currently we are back to warmish temps- during the day anyway and the snow is melting and it’s messy and muddy around the farm during the day.  It's pretty darn cold at night still.

We took off for a while in February for a warm weather vacation – our first.  I am going to put just a couple of photos here from our trip to San Diego.  Thanks so much to Russ and Margaret for their over-the-top hospitality!!!

 Yes, I am wearing a down jacket in that photo above - it was only in the 50's that day and windy!

 Our favorite animal at the zoo was the Red Panda - he didn't think much of us though!

Back here on the farm, the longer days are inspiring the hens to lay more eggs and the tom turkeys to strut all the more.  The pigs are all gone now – Kevin hardly has anything to do…. Right!

I finally achieved my goal of getting all 8 turkeys into one picture - just barely but they all there!  The hens just don't seem all that impressed with the toms do they?

We are about 2 ½ weeks away from the earliest kid due date… Vinca is very wide.  Echo is … well rounded – you may recall that she did not have a kid last year.  I am optimistic for her; time will tell I guess.

Rollie gutted one of our bathrooms while we were gone, starting a remodel project that is LONG overdue.  This bathroom is in the old part of the house – I am really excited that the ceiling will be higher than 6 ½ feet high when he is done!  It is going to take some time but will be worth it when it’s done.

These are the original floor boards - Tamarack I guess.  Interesting how it is put together.

 

When he’s not working on our bathroom and projects at his own place, Rollie has been working in the woods.  Kevin joins him on the weekends and I took a picture just this afternoon of all the trees that are pulled out into a clearing. 

We also saw this interesting thing when out in the woods today.  It is common to see these upright root balls in the woods from trees that have gone over.  This one had this almost perfect circular opening.  Pretty cool I think.

 

 

Is this post long enough now?  I think so – the posts will be more frequent now that spring is coming and the farm will be getting busier and for you readers, more interesting.  Until next time, be well folks.