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A Tour of the Gardens and our Instant Barnyard:

GARDEN TOUR

Spring Harvest in progress with not a whole lot of spare time on our hands. If we are not in the garden, we’ve got many other brands in the fire to keep us busy. So not much blogging is happening around here even though I have around 5 postings

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Sunshine, Wind, Laundry and Deer!!

Today has been one gorgeous day. Not a cloud in the sky as seen in the above photo. It got into the low 80′s. I ended up outside because it was just to nice to stay completely inside laying low as I mend a pulled / strained inflamed back muscle, which is showing

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Eagle Eyes:

[print screen photos from yesterday]

A couple of days ago my blogging friend Robynn in California alerted me of an Eagle Cam in the Pacific Northwest.  She knew that we have been watching since mid February the Barn Owls in San Marcos, California and still are checking in on them

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The Owl Box - Live from San Marcos, Calif.:

MOLLY THE OWL
are you watching?
The Owl Box Live on UStream 24/7

We just finished listening to the
Live narration of question & answer time with the
Florida Grade School Children – Kindergarten – Second Grade. With that age bracket you expect some of the cutest questions. Here are just a few of them.

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Molly the Barn Owl and Rockin' Robynn!!

” Molly the Owl”

The worlds most famous owl being watched live on
UStream in 26 Countries.

I initially Facebooked to friends and twittered about it and thought it high time I blogged about in case you haven’t joined the millions watching daily around the clock. This is not only fun

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Balmy Gardening Weather turns into Spring Snowstorm!

This past Thursday March 18th we woke up to a gorgeous sunny day. I set out to get a few things inside done first before heading outside.
Laundry washing, dishwasher running and I popped my 2 large cast iron dutch ovens into the oven. Oven needed a desperate cleaning anyhow so with my intent to

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Gardening Forecast & Nutrimill - Update:

It’s looking like a possible last one – two punch  of winter here this weekend after such a beautiful warm up and the earliest garden planting we’ve ever had. Lots of rain followed the planting of the onions and peas. Peas are showing signs of germination and ready to poke their little heads

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Spring Planting - First 2 Days:

After one of the worst winters we’ve seen, this past Friday March the 5th is the earliest we have ever done any gardening. If this warm weather continues come St. Patty’s we will be planting seed potatoes; dubbed the traditional potato planting day for our area for years.
If the new garden plot north

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Carrot Seeder - Drawing & Instructions:

It’s planting time and those itty bitty carrot seeds that are grayish and are not all that much fun to plant can be planted easier now with the Carrot Seed Planter my hubby designed and made for us last summer. Planting the seeds evenly at 1 1/2 inch intervals.

He drew

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Garden Arsenal......!! 2010 Garden Season:

This past Friday March 5th we started our 2010 organic garden. This afternoon I went out to tend to the onions we had put in. My husband is out in the shop doing some minor tinkering on the roto tiller, then heading out to the garden shortly to start going over more ground

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FRESH – grassroots movement:

I’m looking forward to this movie coming out on DVD just as Food, Inc. did. Are you?

Here’s the trailer for FRESH and link to their site (see below). Check out to see if it’ showing anywhere in your area. Like FOOD, INC. its not hitting the major movie theaters. I saw

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Bald Eagle and Nest:

Yesterday afternoon after spending the afternoon visiting at friends who invited to have Sunday noon dinner with them we headed home. Taking a less traveled back road to avoid the detour that has been going for months we pass a large pond / wetland area. With the winter silhouette of tree branches bird

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Day of Butchering - Part IV - The Wrap Up!

Time to Wrap up our Day of Butchering!

“……PIGGY LINE DANCING……”

The photo above was taken earlier on in the day. The guys came in with the hog legs and were about to put them on the table top when I said lay them on the tarp under the table. I

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Day of Butchering - Part III:

This is what all hunters do year round. And I am sure there are readers here that have hunters in their families. Whether you end up doing your own butchering the gutting definitely is a part that every hunter must do himself almost immediately. It’s the first step that needs to get done

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Day of Butchering - Part II:

“MEET your MEAT”

Do you know where your meat comes from?

Who actually raised the meat you bought today at your local grocery store or butcher shop? What was the type of meat you bought – chicken, beef, pork or other type of meat fed? Was it fed grain that

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Day of Butchering - Part I:

This past Saturday we finally were able to butcher the hogs we raised all summer. Being we don’t have a walk in cooler as a butcher would have to hang the carcasses to cool down we had to wait for the temps to drop to where the day time temps weren’t above 40 and night

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Friday Foto!

I took this picture early afternoon today. A young hawk (we aren’t sure which type) we have so many different ones in the area. Mostly we see Red Tailed Hawks on our property daily.

I was in the car drivers seat, rolled the passenger window down and zoomed through a maze of

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Fall Time and Migration:

We’ve been having a rather warm, almost hot Indian Summer Fall. With some cold snaps of rain tossed in here and there making it an interesting fluctuation of temps. Though for the most part just lovely gorgeous weather.
I took the Fall photos below a week or two ago on one of

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Sweet Potato Harvest!!

OUR very first experience
growing sweet potatoes and now were seeing
the results and getting to taste it tonight!

My husband dug a small bucket to see what they looked like this afternoon.

Sharing with you what’s baking in the oven as I write. TWO freshly dug “Organic Sweet Taters” from our garden.

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