Notes from around the farm: (With a short aside by the
resident agrarianess) We are very much a mom and pop
little farm here. We do what works in our family and
business schedule. We let roll off our shoulders what we
want. We morph as the seasons in our lives do.

1. Remember the six homeless chickens we adopted. They
are now three...and we didn't eat any of them ourselves.
Princess Daughter and her friend Josie came running in
yesterday and said as they went to get their babydolls to
play with, "Oh, by the way, Dot (one of the chickens) is
laying in the chicken yard dead. Her leg is torn off and her
head is a mess." Lesson: Life goes on.

2. Last night I finally remembered to ask one of the boys to
set the trap before bedtime. Maybe Dot, and the other
three hapless hens would still be with us if I had done that
earlier. We'll try to keep the other three around for a while.
Really it is a hopeless gesture because we are absolutely
overrun with possum, raccoon and fox. We would need to
secure our chicken housing, but that is a lot of work. Lesson:
Don't sweat over what isn't important in this season of life.

3. Speaking of not sweating...something ate the entire garden.
YEAH! Lesson: Remember next year that no one in the
family likes to garden, just move on to something else and
reap the bounties of others' gardens at the truckstands.

4. My oldest son, who lives across the way, got two new kitties
last week. Poor things, they were really flea infested, but
with a lot of patience and hard work they are now much
more comfortable. What little rolls of fur they are. Princess
Daughter's favorite is black with white tips on the two back
feet and a white tip on the tail. Kent and I favor the grey
tiger, what a ball of energy he is. They spend a lot of the
day at out house. Lesson: Get a litterbox if they are going
to be here all day again. (Shew-no details offered.)

5. Last week we sold 5 goats. We got a new billy and so had
so get rid of the older one. Plus we had various others that
needed to be culled out. As the big cattle ranchers say, "If
they don't produce a profit, they become a profit." Lessson:
(this one is directed at Princess Daughter) life goes on, Honey.

6. In the mostly-all-day process of catching the five insane goats
and loading them Hattie got a good lesson in sex-education.
Comment overheard by me. "Wow, that is interesting!" Yep,
she's right. There is nothing like a goat in his rut. ('Nuther
aside...when our 16 year old was about 3 he looked out the
window one day and said, "Look! That rooster is se*xing that
chicken." Lesson: Who needs s*ex education classes?

7. My freezer is almost empty of beef. Note to self: ask Kent if
any of the cows are able to be butchered and then invite all my
friends from blogdom to a Fernnook Farm BBQ!