Archive for 'Cats'
Posted: July 4th, 2007 by
Lisa
Walter at Sugar Mountain Farm suggested an animal roll call, which sounds like the kind of update I am capable of doing at the moment. We’ve got Egil, our Icelandic rooster, currently lording it over his four hens, two of whom are broody, and around 30 three month old chickens. I can’t tell the
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Posted under Bjarki, Chickens, Honey Bees, Horses, Llama, Pigs, Princess, Sheep.
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Posted: April 11th, 2007 by
Lisa
I’m a bit tired of this prolonged winter. The snow was almost gone when we got this recent coldsnap and accompanying snow. The puppy loves it, of course, and I should be used to it, but we have so much to do that needs good weather that I’m getting frustrated. My to-do list just
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Posted under Bjarki, Chickens, Farm Life, Garden Shed, Gardenporn, Greenhouse, Hatching, Horses, Reviews, Sheep, Sheep Sheds, Snow, Window Boxes, Yoda.
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Posted: February 28th, 2007 by
Lisa
The coop is done. Not perfect, but awfully cute, actually, and it will be fine. Once we could get going on it, I think it took us probably three days to build, all told. It still needs the metal roofing, and I bought some dark stain for the outside, but it can’t be applied until
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Posted under Building, Chicken Coop, Farm Life, Princess, Sheep, Spinning.
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Posted: February 10th, 2007 by
Lisa
Minxy, Minxy. Somehow I seem to say that a lot these days, my girl. Mid-morning today, we had yet another sheepie breakout, and like I’d feared the last time, what I did was tell Minx exactly where the pellets were stored. That time, she’d gone around behind the house where they were stored last year,
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Posted under Farm Life, Princess, Sheep, Valerie.
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Posted: January 31st, 2007 by
Lisa
Llama fiber spun into yarn Another set on Flickr, uploaded by LisaNH. For my second attempt at spinning fiber, Princess and I tried the llama fleece from their first and only shearing, in the spring of 2006. I found it spun differently than the Icelandic roving, which is interesting,
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Posted under Carding, Fiber, Llama, Plying, Princess, Spinning.
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Posted: November 20th, 2004 by
Lisa
Dear Sheep: Kaytla, you are a bitch of the first degree. And yeah, we think we’ve gotten all the holes patched so you can’t get out anymore. Thanks for waking us up so bright and early this morning. Getting out three times is really more than is required, don’t you think? And um, you really
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Posted under Farm Life, Fencing, Princess, Sheep.
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Posted: April 17th, 2004 by
Lisa
I started this year right in the front of the house. The hosta I’d gotten so cheaply from Walmart and potted up were doing so well that I wanted to get them into the ground. I think they could handle even a hard freeze if we get another one, so in they’ll go. I put
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Posted under Compost, Marmalade, Shady garden, hosta, pansy.
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Posted: March 28th, 2004 by
Frank
I’m deciding that keeping bees is part of gardening, so I’m going to track them here in this journal, rather than trying to figure out some place else to do it. We are taking a beekeeping class this spring offered by a local co-op farm, and we each ordered a hive kit as part
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Posted under Building, Honey Bees, Princess.
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Posted: November 1st, 2003 by
Lisa
I’ve been gone all week in DC, so coming home to a serious day of gardening was just what the doctor ordered, and the weather cooperated nicely. There wasn’t really much blue sky, but it was warm and it wasn’t raining, and I’ll take that after the cold and wet fall we’ve been having
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Posted under Compost, Firewood, Marmalade, Mulch, Pond scoop, Princess, Soil, Worm Castings, tree peony.
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Posted: October 26th, 2003 by
Lisa
Okay, we got that one bed, the primary one for the spring flowers, put to bed for the year. It turned out to be a huge amount of work, but I’m hoping to not have to repeat it in the spring. We covered it all with a couple of inches of beautiful black compost and
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Posted under Bulbs/Corm/Rhizomes/Tubers, Deadheading, Marmalade, Mulch, Planting, Princess, Pruning.
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