https://thefooduntold.com/food-science/ku05sl9e Might be one of my last chicken move days. Our intern and fiance have been doing much of the work for the last few moves. Only reason I was involved today was that the tractor was necessary to move the eggMobile. These moves typically consume at least 90 minutes. This is the third move for the ‘big’ hens, will be the last one around the orchard.
see Our farm intern reports that when she went to check on the baby turkeys they were starting to roost! Apparently they have imprinted on her as their mother!
https://www.insearchofsukoon.com/b3zuedprrq0 Invited a slew of folks over for a pool party and pot-luck dinner yesterday afternoon. This year we started a little later at 5pm, which worked out very well. Kids got at least 3-4 hours of pool time and the temperature was starting to go down by the time it all started. We had SO much food, people brought some really tasty items.
https://www.techonicsltd.com/uncategorized/8k0psesxb As it got dark we started in on the fireworks that were left over from the fourth of July. One of the guests brought a few mortars too!
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get link The farmer just harvested the wheat and planted the beans, so a short window to be able to drop some trees into the field without damaging crops. The frontier wife helped me, we started early but it was a very hot day. I’m not a particularly experienced chainsaw operator but all went well, was super careful with clearing around the trees for an escape route and placing the cuts properly.
https://geneticsandfertility.com/2t7zhg7j Dropping the trees was easy, the trimming and cutting into log lengths and disposing of the branches was time consuming and tedious. When the tree is down and the branches under compression you have to be very careful not to either have the branch whip out and hit you or roll the tree onto you.
source url While I trimmed, the frontier wife used the tractor with the grapple to move the branch bundles off the field.
source url The next evening I was able to get the boom pole on the tractor and drag the logs back to the sawmill.
go to link Lots of fruit in the orchard is ready to pick. Wild grapes are seen in many places on the farm. This year the peaches in the orchard are going crazy, literally breaking branches.
https://www.insearchofsukoon.com/sz1e4bdt772 I really didn’t think there were still this large of an elk herd in southern Colorado, but what do I know. Pretty impressive.
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https://www.inaxorio.com/aquhg3fzy Bought the used manure spreader a few months ago but just couldn’t find time to get the compost spread onto the back field until today. Used the dump trailer to move 5 loads back to the edge of the field first.
https://etbscreenwriting.com/2esudhyi87 Learned a critical lesson when I filled the manure spreader then hitched it to the tractor and pulled it into the back. Well, with the manure spreader fully loaded, going down a very steep hill caused the trailer to start pushing the tractor. Luckily the hill wasn’t that long but it sure was close to pushing the tractor sideways which would have been a disaster.
https://bxscco.com/q4knuys1ue Actually spreading the compost was pretty easy, especially since my good friend JJ let me borrow his tractor to load the spreader, otherwise I would have had to unhitch, load, then hitch for every spreader load. There were many!
here After completing the Appalachian trail in 2020 Patrick has mentioned many times doing this trek. He saved a ton of money over the past year while living in Houston, planned out the whole thing. He moved back to the Farm in early April and later flew to Arizon, then took a train to New Mexico and was dropped at the southern most point at the Mexican border today. Here’s the starting shot.
enter site We had a very nice Thanksgiving this year, everyone here but Emily. Patty started early in the week making sides and generally preparing the feast, the picture below is from the evening before. Me & Patty started the day by attending Mass and giving thanks to God for everything we’ve been blessed with, which is quite a bit.
https://www.inaxorio.com/wp9yy1ct Due to popular demand we decided to go ahead and fry two of the turkeys and bake the third traditionally. Since we had the fryer out we ended up also deep frying french fries and onion rings and boy were they good!! There was also a request for kaiser buns so we ordered some from a local bakery.
https://splendormedicinaregenerativa.com/q78j861skg While we were frying food the farmer began harvesting the soy beans, boy does that guy work hard. Short video below.
Tramadol To Buy Uk With the food prepared we sat down for our traditional meal and I made a little speech on everything we had to be grateful for, although I’m sure I missed a number of items. I didn’t realize it but Patrick was recording the whole thing, see below.
https://thefooduntold.com/food-science/t9vkbyug The kids brought sides that were delicious, Paul & Colleen brought mashed potatoes and Maddy & Dennis brought Mac’N’Cheese, neither of which lasted very long. After dinner we all were pretty much in a ‘turkey comma’. A few other pictures from dinner time below, click to enlarge.
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watch It was such a nice evening we got the small fire pit going and sat out on the back hill. The Delaney’s came over and we traded stories and generally caught up.
enter When it was time to go in I noticed that the farmer was STILL harvesting. He ended up staying until about 1am.
