Author Archives: Just another day on the farm

Cold-Slush-Wet with a bitter wind! Yup, its a offically a snow day!

God bless those new amazing winter duck boots, they sure came in handy today, we have hit the deep freeze (they say the cold is coming)but today has been on again, off again freezing rain, sleet, and snow taking turns, … Continue reading

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Weigh in 1/12/2012-Little things will add up..

Its been almost a month of no real weekly weighin and updates, its almost impossable to keep up with the blog when I am out West, everyone keeps me running and while blog posts run though my head, trying to … Continue reading

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Dehydrated..hmmm..

So yesterday I went to get a little extra professional help in regards to looking into a couple different things healthwise in regards to our continued journey towards hopefully someday having a little one. What I learned was interesting and … Continue reading

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The Big Bad Boys!- Managing Aggression in your Bird Flocks.

Be it Gander, Tom, Rooster, or Drake, there is nothing quite as alarming as when your big boys turn on you and attack, what was a nice trip outside to the garden, or a pen cleaning or even a feeding … Continue reading

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Dark Day’s Meal #6-Corned Duck Hash with Dippy Egg -Breakfast Meal

I know that the meals are being a little back to back, but I am trying to get caught up, so hope you won’t mind to much that I doing two dark day meals one day apart.. This was a … Continue reading

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Orange ShortBread Cookies-New rolling pin #1

A fellow blogger was posting about making Marmalade. and as I said, I got some of the coolest rolling pins for christmas! This one is small, just the three rows of patterns, and works for cookies, and also I figure … Continue reading

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Dark Day Meal 5- Lamb Chops with winter sides dishes

Well, there was no chance or hope to do my dark day meals while I was out in alberta, I had some amazing meals, has some lovely bison at my Dad’s, the most bland Free range turkey ever, it certainly … Continue reading

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Aging Meats-Corned Duck Breast…

I like to age my meats after butcher, it is much better for taste and texture to do so, be it beef, lamb or any of the smaller critters, before I left on my trip, I was doing a number of … Continue reading

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Socks and Mittens- our first set of twin lambs of the season.

The first set of twin lambs arrived while I was gone, their momma is woolie, and she is a good one, she has a sturdy boy and a slightly smaller little girl, Niece #2 and #3 named them Socks(boy) and … Continue reading

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The Joy of Backups!

So my stove gave up the bucket while I was gone, and I came home and went ok. Now my first thought was, well they have good sales on right now and I might be able to find a great … Continue reading

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