#farmchores

Today was exhausting. I only managed to eat twice—the first meal was around 10:30 AM, and the second was at 6:15 PM. I was so caught up in everything that I didn't even get the chance to sit down and eat

On Saturday morning after breakfast I got started on the seedlings. They needed thinning and I hoped to move some of them out of the dining room window so I could pull the shades. It was to be well into

On Wednesday morning I got started organizing the seedlings to go out to the cold frame. The cold nights were done for a while and I needed to get them out of the windows. The coming heat would be awful

When I got up at 4:30 AM on Saturday morning, the house was still warm (70 – 71F) and it was 8F outside. So I’d gotten the stoves right, even though I’d been told it was to be 14F. I got the one in the

Saturday morning the moon was setting over the northwest as the sun was coming up. The pasture coop had been sitting in the same place since last year. The tires had disintegrated and I’d ordered new ones.

Monday my husband and I had the first oncology visit. One thing that came out of that was that my husband needed much more protein in his diet than what they were serving him. So we put together a list

On Saturday morning two of my volunteers came out and helped me get the pasture pen and circus tent taken down and put away. The coop is still in the pasture as we will need a lot of people to push it

A friend had taken me out to run errands on Wednesday afternoon and when we got back, the wind had won on the mulch pile. Zack will be here on Thursday and once it warms up some, we will repair it. It

On Wednesday my intern’s dad pointed out we should take down the deer stand and put it away. He went out to see how hard it would be. The deer must have heard what he was up to, because this is what I

On Tuesday my helper #2 was here and once we’d finished the little trees, we moved into the Big garden. The first thing we tackled was the comfrey. Most of it had been hit hard by the frosts so we took

My helper #2 was here on Tuesday and we tackled the last of the trees. We discovered there’s a wide disparity in burlap quality. We’d started out with this burlap I’d gotten on BuyNothing. It is just like

The chicken Taj Mahal builder and my intern went out deepsea fishing on Thursday. I’ve not heard the fishing report, but I bet my husband did. My helper #1 was here and I set her to making beef stew. I

The warmer temperatures have finally arrived and I’ll only be burning the stove at night. So I brought in a lot of wood first thing on Wednesday morning in hopes I won’t have to do it again for a long

Monday was cold and very windy. I’d hoped the chickens would have moved to their new home before a wind event came. But alas, no. The plastic blew off the pasture coop and Monday night in the wind I had

I woke to a very cold frosty morning on Saturday. It was about 22F. There was hoar frost on everything when I went out to do the chickens. That’s a rare thing here. After a morning spent learning the IPad,

Thursday started with doing the chickens in the rain. I had to take out their bell waterer as we are about to drop into the 20’s at night for the next week. I rigged up a small Fortex pail, hopefully small

Christmas 1974 Tuesday morning I woke with a bladder infection. I had my helper #2 coming and we had to move the pasture coop, hopefully for the last time. I had him put away the snake fence the volunteers

Saturday started off nicely. A woman and her young boys had volunteered and they showed up with the whole family. They helped me push the pasture coop forward and I spent a little time answering questions

Last Thursday was a very busy day here. My husband was still in Mass General and waiting for a biopsy after multiple scanning tests and untold blood tests. Volunteers were coming through magnificently

My intern was out here on Wednesday and worked her butt off and finished the mulching of the garlic. What a lovely job! It’s sort of embarrassing when the student does a better job than the teacher…. While