Phew!  Acorn has been a schwetty puddle lately... Chores are sporadic- out for an hour then back in to recover.  Driving up to the post office is a lovely way to cool down, according to Acorn...  Driving ANYWHERE has been better ...

Hot weather is upon Steelmeadow.  The farmers are doing what work they can, early and later in the day.Golf cart "lids" working out as tractor sunshades.  The one on the Mahindra is about done. Looks pretty good.Beans, z...

Been a busy enough week...  Usual farm chores, some landscape work at the Springfield house...Miss Massey Has a new home- guy who lives about 2 miles away as the crow flies needed a tractor and voila!  Blind Hog and Acorn had j...

Busy enough week on the farm- got those bucklings sold and doelings listed for sale.  Garden is kicking in, Blind Hog has been doing yard and driveway work and even supervised and fetched so Acorn could change the shocks on the old F350.

Blind Hog and Acorn have been at it, busy enough for sure.  Biggest  accomplishment was getting the bucklings all gathered up and taken to market.  Phew!   Done and Done!Acorn had a couple physical therapy appointment...

Between fence repairs, Sam's misadventures (killing a cat and then a few days later getting stung and swelling up), working in the hot/humid weather, the farmers decided to get a new small tractor and sell Miss Massey.  A small tractor WIT...

After a fun filled week on the farm, nothing says "let's take it easy" better than attending a "No Kings" protest in a strongly Republican town. Blind Hog and Acorn were flipped the bird several times, several pro-Trump drivers kept coming back...

All 60 nannies and kids were run through the working station- tagged, vaccinated, dewormed, castrated, weighed and feet trimmed.  Took 8 hrs and several liters of water, including four breaks.  Blind Hog and Acorn almost fell...

Blind Hog and Acorn have been busy- the usual chores plus making a split from the beehive, working on the tractors, putzing about in the garden.Sam got skunked- nothing new there.

Blind Hog and Acorn have been busy farmers- fields are clipped, everything mowed and trimmed.  Let the rains begin.  Well, as long as the county road does not get washed away...Good news with the single surviving beehive- it is...

Blind Hog is clipping the fields, already "that time" again...  Early blast of summer temps at the farm, upper 80's!  he has the first three paddocks done, a couple more on the west side then he can do the two in the east.Acorn...

Acorn was complaining about lagging internet speeds and dropped cell signal, so she and Blind Hog raided up the cell phone amplifier antenna higher on the roof- moving it to the peak as well as puttin git on a 10' mast.  Already speeds hav...

May get down to the upper 30's at the farm tonight- Acorn holding off to plant the tomatoes after this last cold snap.Snakey-gosling of last week only lived a couple days- figuring it might have been an infection from the snake ...

Gosling saved from being a black snake's lunch (much drama ensued); rhubarb pie, asparagus and lettuce feeding the farmers for lunch.The first nice morel of the Spring found- Acorn talked to some mushroom hunters and they also thought it...

Rain is back and well needed- that last deluge all ran off.  Still no morels found but Acorn did see asparagus in the garden today!5 lil' honkers off to their new home, more eggs in the incubator and some still under an actual goose...

Three goslings hatched so far, another has pipped.  Two males, one female.  They are just so stinkin' cute.Blind Hog sold all his pottery equipment, tools and materials to a newbie from northern Missouri.  She and her husb...

Finally got the rain, and as of this writing, Acorn reports 5.38" which is in the 5-7" rain in the forecast.  During the first round, Acorn noticed flapping sheet metal on the old goat barn rood- during a "window of opportunity" Blind Hog ...

Talk about a busy week... Gardening... Kidding... Wood splitting... Blind Hog and Acorn have been busy.Goat #494 "Poe" showed up looking like she had kidded, but no kid. It took 2 more days before she showed up with the wee bair...

Weeklong wildfires to the south of the farm- Acorn's throat is none too happy.  Smoke haze thick at times, hills looking right blue.Purple martins beginning to hang around- will need to get the gourds up soon.  Watercres...

Fields are now mowed down- ready for the spring growth surge as Blind Hog and Miss Massey have everything brush hogged nice and level.Acorn has been milking and making skyr.  Baking the sourdough bread.Goose eggs in the incub...

Wellll, Acorn has Blind Hog's sinus crud...  Started as viral, is now bacterial.  Ugh...  No rest for the midwife, and the last big rush of kidding got completed.  Just a few stragglers now to go over the next few w...

Blind Hog has a cold...  Or the flu...  Not sure, but it ain't Covid.  Had a low temp of 100.2°F today, coughing, drainage, overall malaise...  Acorn has a scratchy throat but thinks it is elm pollen......

Blind Hog and Acorn survived the record lows as well as the snow.  Thankfully the 12-16" threatened were just that- a threat.  4" was plenty.Barns are being prepared for the next round of kidding.  Pantry items ...

Blind Hog helped neighbor set out hay bales  at noon while Acorn cleaned house like a whirling Dervish.  Getting all kinds of chores done before Tuesday's expected snowfall.Great Weekend Bird Count is on- Acorn spotted 14 speci...

Another cleaning of the dairy barn, having funs with sourdoughs, getting ready for another Icy Blast of Winter.  The fun never ends...Acorn bought a 50 lb bag of hard red winter wheat to grind for flour.  Little Red He...