Clintonville Earthquakes

Many have asked, do we feel the earthquakes by us?  no, we don’t.  we are to the south east side of town and out 4 miles.  We have not felt or heard anything.

Click to the right on the link to my farmers market pages.  This weekend is the last day of the winter market season.

What's Up on the Farm

Cattle can be like children.  They like to play with things they are not suppose to touch.  When the temperatures where above freezing we still had the automatic shut off on the water tanks.  Some cattle can find ways to disconnect the hose and then we have a water mess to clean up.  This happened twice in the last month.

Now it is cold enough that the tank heaters have been put in to keep the water tanks from freezing.  Now some of the cattle are finding a way to pull them out.  Lucky it is not cold enough to freeze completely but they did have a nice layer of ice on top.

WHAT'S UP ON THE FARM....

We are coming into the time of year my husband dislikes the most.  The summer may be a lot of work and long hours with all the field work and making hay.  But, in the winter my husband has to pull out hoses, fill the cattle water tanks, drain the hoses and pull them back to the house to put into the basement so they don't freeze up.  You see, our barn is old.  When we bought our farm the barn had a dirt floor with hitching posts in it.  It is not a dairy barn with a milk house so there is not a heated water system.  And pulling hoses to fill tanks is my husband’s least liked job on the farm.

Natural Raised Pork - NO hormones, NO antibiotics......

We are butchering a pig this week and will be restocked at the farm market this weekend.

This week on the farm

I love living out in the country.  Going to the farm market Saturday morning I saw a doe and her twin fawns in the road playing.  When I looked to the east as they went back into the field, I saw the sun coming up and shining on a golden wheat field with the silhouette of 3 long necked does bobbing above the wheat.  Very picturesque.

We have 3 new calves on the farm, Jack, Jill and Georgie.  Georgie lost his voice mooing the first couple days, but they are all well adjusted now.

I hope the nice weather holds out for a couple more weekends as we do all of our outdoor winter prepping.
Sunday the water tanks go patched and sealed.  Equipment was pressure washed. But, there is so much more to do yet.

Kissing Cows

These are the cows that like to steal a kiss.

We got them when they were calves from our Amish friends.

They have been so friendly right from the start.

Big Boy Toys

This is my husband, Rodney, and his dream machine.

Yes, a dream machine, because he is just dreaming if he thinks he can keep this.

But at least he got to use it for one day.