Woodchipper experiment. Straight to bag. Worked surprisingly well, except for the bag filling up real fast.
I wonder if this will dry if I just hoist it into the rafters of the barn like that. Lets find out!
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Wife arrive! Or uh, partner. Whatever.
I think they're both the same storks as last year. Because they are totally used to my bullshit. And last year that took some time and suspicious eyeballing first.
The shagging has begun immediately. There's no foreplay, the whole thing lasts about 5 seconds but goes on many times per day, accompanied by slow beak clacking. Then several minutes of intense preening to straighten the feathers.
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Deer debarking service.
Unfortunately they don't debark the trees I want them to debark and instead peel the juicy young trees.
Wow, this is a really nice chicken coop. Now that the garden cleanup is almost done, we can think about where to build one.
I'd close off the area below the house though. And just small trees with the bark on for roosting bars. Doesn't hold any dirt like that wrapped rope and the chickens loved it.
Pre-jungle season is running out soon. Time to tackle goat pen #3.
Difficult access, the former outdoor service pit was in front of it, which is now just a ditch. I scooped up some dirt and built a causeway, then got rid of the ingrown fence and creeper roots.
Now I can drive the mower into there and keep it from overgrowing again.
The thorny fuckers inside got chipped into the hole and the non-thorny shrubbery got chipped onto the new causeway.
Treasure so far: The usual bunch of steel, a large concrete chunk and enough scrap wood for a few sauna sessions. Some of it even already dry.
We're most of the way through lambing season and have had 2 mishaps. The first was a difficult birth for our smallest ewe and first time mom, which we were able to "assist" with. Mom and baby are great, the lamb is our current biggest in spite if being a day or two younger than the rest of his cohort.
We have had one set of twins, and one of the little guys had a slight eye infection which became obvious on day two, and we treated, but sadly on day 3 (yesterday) he must have tried to rub it on the wrong thing and caused a rupture. A vet trip later and the little guy is down an eye but in a lot less pain. He has what seems to he a knock on infection in one knee, and is on the world's tiniest doses of antibiotics and painkillers for the next few days.
It's been a little touch and go, but he's with mom and drinking and has been adventuring about with the other lambs (3 other boys, so far). 2 mamas left, one likely to twin.
Maple continues apace, got 3.5 gallons jarred. Probably at least 2 more collected and in various stages of boiling. Ah spring.
Mr. Stork looks a bit grumpy on account of the rain. He hates wet feathers. Makes him look all spiky. Only beaks should look spiky, you see.
He's been borrowing some twigs from our garden to fix up the nest but despite it looking ready, no partner has showed up yet.
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