Six months ago this week we were well into summer and the little homestead looked quite a bit different than it does right now. Everything was blooming! The corn was quite tall... Tall enough to block the pup's view of the poultry pens, which is where my cute little buff orpingtons were by now... They …
Yesterday I decided to start building a proper bird feeding station over by the lilacs after months of having this little window box feeder. It works pretty well and both feeds the sparrows, finches and chickadees and provides me with hours of entertainment each day! It's just that there are too many birds coming to …
I spent the morning all bundled up, sitting on the bench next to the husky pens drinking my coffee and enjoying the lovely fall weather we're having. It's nice to have a safe spot to interact with the pups without being inside their pens where they like to try and jump on me and lick …
We spent most of the day cleaning up the garden beds and burning off the dead stuff which was not as bad as I'd dreaded it would be. The wind was in my favor and blew the smoke off into the neighbor's direction, so that helped. Most of the leaves we left unraked because they …
I went out this afternoon with the intention of filling the feeders and collecting seeds, which I did manage to do, but I kept getting distracted by other things. Like the maple tree which has turned from green to orange to yellow now and looks absolutely stunning. The crabapple trees also look beautiful right now, …
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