Prepping of many kinds at SteelMeadow Farm… Cooking, baking, cleaning. Getting all the little fiddly bits done. Fruitcakes… Cinnamon rolls… Turkey… Blind Hog’s firewood is no longer growing oyster mushrooms, those logs went into the woodstove. Those logs were also very light, weight-wise, for their size. Guess the fungi have been taking care of that. Goats areContinue reading “Season 3, Episode #40~ Pre-Thanksgiving P(r)ep Talk”
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Season 3, Episode #39~ Blind Hog has his Cake!
Busy enough week for Blind Hog and Acorn- cutting down dead trees for firewood, cleaning up the sewing room and culling through boxes and boxes of “stuffs…” A carload of recycling and thrift store drop offs… And the wall of boxes and shelves is so neat and tidy… Blind Hog had a great 81st birthday,Continue reading “Season 3, Episode #39~ Blind Hog has his Cake!”
Season 3, Episode #38~ Lull in Activities, Sorta…
Not a very exciting week… Garden chores, woodpile chores… Blah blah blah… Goats DID get vaccinated, with the help of the Badger. That was a might task that needed doing. Tail hairs sent off on four doelings to get them registered as 50%’ers… Acorn got all excited about a new coffee grinder but after recording theContinue reading “Season 3, Episode #38~ Lull in Activities, Sorta…”
Season 3, Episode #37~ Preparing for Winter
Apologies for any repeated material from week to week, but when everyday is the same, it is easy to get days mixed up! Blind Hog and Acorn have been busy with farm chores, food preparation, canning, woodsplitting. Today’s pasture walk revealed the winter forecast via persimmon seeds (spoiler, it was a spoon = snow). Sam’sContinue reading “Season 3, Episode #37~ Preparing for Winter”
Season 3, Episode #36~ Hurrah for Cell Phone Signal Improvements!
Has been a week of home electronic installation as Blind Hog and Acorn received and installed the new cell phone booster kit and yes, the big test of improved signal reception is apparent- the podcast episode loaded up before this first paragraph was completed! BOOM! Just like that! Besides putting up a new 6′ mastContinue reading “Season 3, Episode #36~ Hurrah for Cell Phone Signal Improvements!”
Season 3, Episode #35~ Oh, Nuts!
Busy week on the farm- both goats barns cleaned out and dusted with lime and diatomaceous earth, dead trees cut and brought down from the upper 40 for firewood, walnuts a-plenty in the yard for picking up, goji berries in the dehydrator. PHEW! Blind Hog and Acorn will take Sunday afternoon off at least, footballContinue reading “Season 3, Episode #35~ Oh, Nuts!”
Season 3, Episode #34~ Honey, I’m Hooooome!
Acorn left for a fun weekend trip to Houston, only to be diverted on her way home to Fort Myers. Talk about a mess down there! Thankfully, the house in the Trust was pretty much unscathed and the closing of the sale, scheduled on the 29th, was NOT cancelled but only postponed a week. BuyersContinue reading “Season 3, Episode #34~ Honey, I’m Hooooome!”
Season 3, Episode #33~ Road to Recovery and a Letter from Afar…
Blind Hog and Acorn are slogging along, one better than the other. Farm chores wait for no one and things just chug chug chug. Happily, there is light at the end of the Covid Tunnel and both have been taking walks again in the morning, not like they are totally laid out flat… Canning upContinue reading “Season 3, Episode #33~ Road to Recovery and a Letter from Afar…”
Season 3, Episode #32~ Went on Vacation and All I got was this Lousy ‘Rona…
No- seriously, the week in the Rockies was FABULOUS! Blind Hog and Acorn both lost like 5-6 lbs, crazy good hiking days and wonderful lodgings. Airports were “interesting” to say the least. Missed one connecting flight by minutes, but truly that only set the holiday back by 4 hours- big whoop. At least the luggageContinue reading “Season 3, Episode #32~ Went on Vacation and All I got was this Lousy ‘Rona…”
Season 3, Episode #31~Prepping for Holiday
10,000+ steps on Acorn’s Fitbit and she has not really left the house- all that spinning around in circles! Blind Hog did the pasture walks, mowed the grass, refilled mineral feeders, moved the goats, tended the laying hens. Geese are watching over the pullets. Chores winding down for the day- beans to snap and thenContinue reading “Season 3, Episode #31~Prepping for Holiday”
