Just another Day on the Farm

Breakfast for me was one slice toast with one egg, hubby was omlet, toast with peanut butter. Lunch was leftovers for hubby, fried roast beef with a huge plate of green beans for me.. supper was fresh bannock with roasted guinea fowl breast with bacon, cooked, cooled, diced with fresh green onion, white onion and a touch of mayo with black pepper.

So some of you might remember that I had a sheep with a foot that was damaged about a month ago, she was released from her “recovery” pen this weekend and is doing very well indeed.. I might need to put her back into the barn during the wet melt, as I don’t want that nice tough pad she has grown on her foot to soften and risk infection.

Its been so cold that the horse’s are getting three to five -five min training sessions daily this past while, yesterday’s one of the little pop outs was to give them granny head wraps in green in honor of St. Paddy’s..

I love the look on their faces.. I will do this, but there had better be a carrot in this for me 🙂

My last of fresh is starting to show in my body, I can feel myself slowly draining, while I am certainly getting enough calories, and I think if I had been eating my regular winter meals I would not be noticing it so much but because I have been eating so many fruits/veggies daily in regards to fertility, I really feel it on this challenge, I swear if I was allowed, I would eat nothing but salad’s for like three days straight..

Breakfast was bacon/eggs, toast with tea and then we were off to the races, dh needed to work on writing out a authers blog interview questions which was his putter of the day, the wind was whipping around, perfect for laundry, and I got six loads done, which means three full lines done over the day.

Sam was laying down, he does trust me enough to come to the fence but no amount of cooing and slow talking would let him stay down while I came to give a pat.. its a start..

We did regular chores and then we shower and headed off to a “farm” 20 min or so away to look at a new duck, now we laughed when we pulled in, its a castle, four car garage, three stories million plus house and at the back and side thrown up wood and wire/ with plastic is all kinds of birds, ducks and rabbits huh, nice guy, nice critters but totally not what you expect behind that massive o so pretty house..

introducing Gray Mist

Pat, mist and Blacky were moved as a bredding trio to a new pen just for them so I can control breeding and genes.

The remaining guinea fowl were moved from winter quarters to summer, but not before one of them got a much needed beak trim, only she grows a beak like this, none of the others do

So that pen will be cleaned out, limed and will have a different summer use.. the geese have been moved into their own breeding trio with a nice big area, and two nesting box’s, one for each girl, instead of building box’s, we put our thinking caps on and recycled two things in storage into nesting box’s for them, and as dirt is frozen, we layered the bottom with 2 inch of loose pig stall compost, with lots of straw bedding, now hopefully they will pick a nest and start laying where I want them to.

Bacon wrapped guinea fowl breast meat is a sweet little treat..

Supper was steak and potato’s, with a fruit salad, pineapple, canned, dried cranberries and coconut dried, mixed together and allowed to sit together.

Well, had better get this day going!

The storm has come and gone, the weather is inching its way upward, I am hope to be drinking maple sap this weekend, and it will be AWESOME!

The laundy path has been dug out again and stubborn me has it full again, the never ending house chores are chugging along, the running of the hounds today was a blast, jump, run, spin and roll in the snow, marking of the fence posts, running back and forth with total joy, butts lifted high into the air, head lowers, tails waggin.. come get me or laying flat to the ground, trying to make seem as small as possible, waiting to strike as another one runs by, bolting out and then playing zip an zag.

Today is the first day in three that have been warm enough to even consider working with the horses, so that is on the list..

Got to full 72 cell trays that I want to do up today into a mix and match of seeds for different seedlings, and then I am done for a few weeks, while I move all the ones coming into small pots, which will take up all the room I have at the moment. So I need to plan ahead on how many trays to plant until I can get the greenhouses online..  Only a few more weeks before I will be able to start using the cold frames for some of the outdoor seedling plantings.

Started Saving all my egg shells, normally, they are part of the pig pail but not anymore, now they are being saved for the garden.. I read something on one of my local farm blogs, they are talking about a hard hot summer with not nearly as much rain.. Now given the snow pack, unless it melts out wrong, I will have lots of spring water, but I hope they are wrong that we are going to have mild drought conditions given the way the gulfstream is working at the moment, but that is what they are saying, I guess the best thing to do is to plan for the dought and then if it does not happen, we are just ahead of the game.

So I guess I will need to add even more compost to the garden this spring, need to get both of the big hugelbeds topped up and the third big one fully finished for the garden season, its just waiting for this years winters’s pig turned deep pack pens scrapings layered on top of the pre-pared overwintered bottom. There was some damage done on my rain water collection systems in these winter storms that will need to be fixed as soon as possible and a number of more 55 gallons water drums need to be added to the lineups.

Breakfast for hubby was Toast and Peanut Butter,  Eggs and bacon for me.

Lunch-Carrot Soup with dill, Not sure what hubby took but it would have been leftovers or soup or stew from the pantry

Supper-Bacon/egg buns with Mayo, with home jellied peach’s in their own juice with tea for me and hot chocolate for hubby.

Hubby also had muffins, cookies and loaf, I had half a cup of fruited/nut trail mix as a afternoon snack.