Frogs
More animals from the menagerie, this time our frogs. The tadpoles finally turned to frogs and we have around 7-10 full grown croakers surrounding the pond every morning.
Slug Trap
This summer something has been eating holes in all of our Cruciferous vegetables. After a little research we found it was slugs. It didn’t involve too much research, there are literally hundreds of slugs around the farm, each morning there…
Another animal for the menagerie
This spring we had a truckload of mulch/soil delivered to the house and dumped on our driveway. We’ve used most of it on the vegetable garden, but there was a good bit left over. This weekend we finally moved it…
And then there were none
Our last guinea hen is now gone. Painfully, for the last few weeks the numbers have declined steadily. At the end of the day we would check the coop and sometimes they were all there, but typically one was missing….
Free like a bird, and dumb like a brick
The guineas are free. We finally decided to let them roam and do what we raised them to do – eat bugs and ticks from the yard. We opened the gates on their coop and it took only a minute…
Closer and Closer to Their Fresh-Air Future
At 8-plus weeks, the Guineas are fully feathered and developing those flabby, weird skin features around their heads, like turkeys. Aside from their polka dots, they’re not the prettiest creatures, but we’re pretty fond of them and their general mania,…
Our Froggies Are a-Courtin’
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, the frogs made a reappearance in our pond yesterday. The first time we visited the farm last summer, there had been a frog sunning itself on a lilly pad in the pollywog-filled pond, putting…
Goodbye “Lola”, Hello “Rosie”
When we first signed the contract to get our house we knew we would finally have to enter the world of car ownership. Neither of us have ever owned a car, and had been renting Zip cars on a weekly…
Buddy Got a BooBoo
At some point in the midst of his last evening walk about, the white dog managed to slice open the central pad of one of his front paws on some unknown object. It looked painful and was bleeding quite a…
They’re Growing Up Fast, Maybe too Fast
True to their adolescence, the guineas are going through a bit of an awkward period. With their half-naked heads and scraggly neck ruffles, they remind me of Skeksis, the creepy villains of Jim Henson’s movie The Dark Crystal. Interspersed with…