Archive for 'Truck'
Posted: May 24th, 2007 by
Lisa
We took the truck into town yesterday, so we could visit Wellscroft Farm to pick up some electrical tape and portable fencing to use for the horses, for a hopeless search for heirloom tomato plants, and to visit the new Cheshire Horse store. Dave showed me how to stop the puppy from barking while he
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Posted under Chickens, Eggs, Farm Life, Fencing, Jeremy, Lambs, Llama, Pigs, Red Scoop of Joy, Sheep, Truck, Valerie.
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Posted: May 21st, 2007 by
Frank
My work machine was in the shop last week, so Friday, Lisa and I went to pick up our pigs. We got them from Kingbird Farm over near Ithaca New York. We now have two registered Tamworth gilts, three barrows (that’s a castrated boar) and an unregistered gilt that the seller warned us not
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Posted under Farm Life, Pigs, Trailer, Truck, electronet.
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Posted: May 8th, 2007 by
Lisa
It’s really hard, right now. We lost a llama yesterday, so suddenly that I can hardly believe it happened. It’s hard to even write about it, but I guess I want to document it in case someone else has something similar happen. On Saturday, Vinnie had a lamb, the first one in the pen with
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Posted under Bjarki, Blackflies, Chickens, Death, Ewes, Farm Life, First Date Out, Horse Housing, Lambs, Llama, Mosquitos, Sawmill, Sunny, Tractor, Truck, Window Boxes, mega-catch.
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Posted: April 30th, 2007 by
Lisa
Kaytla, the ewe who had triplets, one still born, looks like she is developing mastitis. I noticed that one teat was twice the size of the other, and that both lambs were nursing on the other side. I asked on the ISBONA list to make sure I should intervene, and milked her out by hand
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Posted under Chicken Coop, Chickens, Ewes, Farm Life, Horse Housing, Horses, Lambs, Pasture, Rain, Reviews, Truck, mastitis, mega-catch.
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Posted: April 22nd, 2007 by
Lisa
What a day we had yesterday. Even this morning, we are still exhausted, and that’s with Valerie coming over to help. We are just absolutely wiped out. We started the day with the first lamb of the season. We went out in the morning to let the chickens out, and Frank came back
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Posted under Building, Farm Life, Firewood, Horse Housing, Horses, Lambs, Llama, Shearing, Sheep, Truck.
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Posted: October 31st, 2004 by
Lisa
We’ve been playing a lot with the tractor and sawmill and are using the truck to haul more logs. I’m getting really good at backing the truck into really tricky spots. I mean, it’s a real valuable skill of mine, and somehow I’m far betting backing up than pulling forward out of the same spot.
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Posted under Addition, Clearing, Garden Shed, Iris, Pasture, Sawmill, Sheep, Tractor, Truck.
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Posted: September 24th, 2003 by
Lisa
You can tell it is fall and we are far behind on the firewood, because we went out after work again to pick at it. But we were sitting in the gazebo with a glass of wine, and started to feel guilty, so what the heck. Frank might as well use at least one tank
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Posted under Asters, Blaze, Chainsaw, Clematis, Coneflowers, Firewood, Mums, Obedient Plant, Roses, Sedum, Truck.
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Posted: September 1st, 2003 by
Lisa
It’s sort of fitting how hard we worked today, with it being Labor Day, and all. We worked ourselves really hard, though, even though it wasn’t very pleasant weather wise, either. With the chipper broken from yesterday, it seemed logical to spend the day running the sawmill instead, and we really hoped that we wouldn’t
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Posted under Chainsaw, Firewood, Princess, Pry bar, Sawmill, Truck, peavey.
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Posted: August 31st, 2003 by
Lisa
We spent all of today working on getting that downed tree out of the driveway, and it hasn’t been a good day for equipment, making it all more difficult. Frank’s Stihl chainsaw was broken yesterday by having the tree fall on it, and he bought a spare at Home Depot last night, but he really
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Posted under Chainsaw, Chipper, Design Ideas, Firewood, Japanese beetles, Lawn tractor, Lily beetles, Tractor, Truck, Window Boxes, Wine, gazebo.
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Posted: July 27th, 2003 by
Lisa
Today we mostly cut lumber from the trees that we’ve previously dropped. In particular, there was a huge oak log that Frank had dropped some time before the fire. We backed the truck up to it, pulled it out, and found that half of it had rotted away. Frank was convinced there was still some
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Posted under Chainsaw, Chipper, Clearing, Hornets, Lawn tractor, Sawmill, Tractor, Truck.
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