A Simple Sunday

Hello weekend friends! Today I'll show you what a typical autumn Sunday morning looks like for me on the ol' farm in Nova Scotia, Canada.

The weather is chilly now at night and in the mornings, so the first thing I do is stir up the coals in the wood stove and add a few logs to get the fire started for the day 💗

Ahhh....there we go! Nothing beats the radiant heat of wood. It feels like the sun to me.

After starting the kettle for tea I take care of my indoor animals with food and water. I have 3 cats right now and they are all great mousers. I've never had a mouse messing with my food because of them.

And of course I have cats because I've always loved them. They were my first Spirit Animal. I just adore their soothing nature and antics...with boxes especially haha 😂

They both want to go in, "After you" 💁 "No, no, after you" 💁‍♂️

George and Tecca

Grayson II

At 9 am I go and open up my store for the day. I had a relaxing day yesterday and did NO baking. So all I put in the store today were eggs. There's still plenty of cookies, cakes and bread there for today's customers. I'll be making fresh sourdough late tonight.

Next I practice Spanish for 30 minutes while my brain is fresh and ready to absorb.

Time to feed the chickens!

In the morning I give them 5 scoops of lay ration pellets and one scoop of scratch grains. I have around 40 chickens right now.

They get fed twice a day instead of filling feeders for them where they can access food all the time. This ensures they eat all the food and leave none around for rats. We have a lot of rats out here.

In the spring I will get 50 new layers and sell these girls.

They always crowd the fence when they see me coming 😅 It's a little awkward ... I feel famous.

I spread it all around their run so everyone gets some.

I haven't been letting them free range outdoors for the last couple weeks as we have a lot of predators right now. Bobcats, coyotes, and foxes. My dog freedom can't protect them from that many predators as the chickens really like to spread out when they are outside.

Meet Freedom! My livestock guardian dog 🐕

It's time for her breakfast now and next her walk around the boundaries of her 4 acre watch.

I call it a walk, but it's really a sniff. I take Freedom for a sniff. Usually takes about 30-45 minutes depending on how many animals have come into the area overnight.

She goes on another one of these sniffs late afternoon.

At night she sleeps in the coop with the chickens to keep out weasels, mink, skunks and rats.

She's killed many rats over the last 3 years and one fox. I could not have chickens out here if I didn't have Freedom.

Snifffffffff

Sniffffffffffffff

Isn't she so cute? 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 When she's not murdering ofc. Then she looks scary AF 😂

My home screen lol

Some Fall Pretties

I found a cool little bottle out there, it's amazing what the Earth belches up, all from the days when there was no garbage pick up and everyone buried their trash on their land.