Archive for October, 2006
October 17, 2006 – You Think You Had (Have) Trouble Dating?
Today I heard about poor soul – Brian. He is mostly a regular guy looking to settle down. Unable to find any dates, he resigned himself to an online dating service. He chose eHarmony, because he was interested in finding someone with similar values. After filling out the 200+ questionnaire, he clicked submit to find ...Read more.
October 16, 2006 – Sugar (Shoog-uh!)
Yesterday the good people at Morning Sun Farm brought a young Alpine goat buck when they came over to make soap. His name was alternately “Whiteface” or “Sugar” and we decided to call him Sugar, pronounced “Shoog-uh” as his job is to impregnate Paullina and Blaze. The two young boys went to the sale barn ...Read more.
October 15, 2006 – Soap
Today was another day to revive an ancient, somewhat forgotten task – making soap from scratch – in this case rendered beef and pork fat, lye, and goat milk. The folks from Morning Sun farm came over to finish what we had started a few months ago when the fat was rendered. Everybody looks pleased ...Read more.
October 14, 2006 – Garden Clean Up Begins
Today was a big get the garden cleaned up day. We hired one of Linda’s students to help and got all the tomato vines pulled and dragged to the burn pile, pulled all the posts holding the tomato cages and bean trellises out, dragged them to the winter storage location, chopped the sunflowers and corn ...Read more.
October 13, 2006 – Caution! Combustible Firestarter!
Front of firestarter product. Back of firestarter product. Need I say more? one year ago…
October 12, 2006 – Thingamajig Thursday #44
Here’s this week’s “Thingamajig Thursday” entry. Also check out last week’s answer. As always, put your guess in a comment below. Answer… Although it looks like John Deere green and yellow, it has nothing to do with JD – it is a nitecrawler bait box to keep the worms cool in the boat. one year ...Read more.
October 11, 2006 – Garden Gleaning
You know you are committed when it’s 39 degrees with a 25 mph wind and you are out picking the last raspberries of the year! I had to come in three times to warm up the fingers before getting all the raspberries picked. Tonight will be the end of the growing season at last. This ...Read more.
October 10, 2006 – Egg Production Slowing
It’s the time of year that egg production drops as the light decreases. We don’t “force” our hens to lay like the big egg houses do by keeping the lights on all the time, nor do we withhold feed the last days of the hen’s life to trick her into a burst of laying before ...Read more.
October 9, 2006 – Lambs Growing Up
Our lambs are a bit behind most others in the area. They were born in June, so won’t be ready until late, late fall. They get a little bit of corn to help them keep warm and get used to coming when we call. That helps when we yell SHEEPY-SHEEPY-SHEEP to lock them up at ...Read more.
October 8, 2006 – Corn Wagons Filled
Today is supposed to be the last nice day for a while. Claire and I went on a walk to combat hunger for church and the rest of the gang met some friends for a walk in the woods and picnic. We eventually caught up with them. Today was also the day our corn wagons ...Read more.
October 7, 2006 – An Unscheduled Saturday
Finally a Saturday with nothing scheduled (except getting Claire to town at 6:45 am to head to the state marching band competition in Fort Dodge). Otherwise it was a rather mundane day of house cleaning and trim staining and finishing.
October 6, 2006 – Shrinking our Footprint
At some point it becomes necessary to quit complaining and just take care of your own house. Even if the Federal government doesn’t see the value in taking care of the house we depend on to live (earth), doesn’t mean that we as citizens have to go along. After my discovery at the renewable energy ...Read more.
October 5, 2006 – Thingamajig Thursday #44
Here’s this week’s “Thingamajig Thursday” entry. Also check out last week’s answer. As always, put your guess in a comment below. Answer… This was a tough one – this is the inside of a hanging chicken waterer – the red bell surrounds this and the black thingamajig is also filled with water for ballast.
October 4, 2006 – Fall
Today I’ll leave you with a seasonal photo. Although the calendar says October 4th, the thermometer says 87 today.
