Me vs. Mice

I can’t tell you how many times I have heard people who live on a farm complain about the mice. Since I also can’t even keep track of the number of people who don’t live on a farm, who also complain about mice, I think it is a universal problem. But it certainly affects us […]

Weekly Wrap-Up, 12/3/22

Shortly after Thanksgiving, we had a thaw! The snow that had been on the ground, making chores hard, melted! But, the melt also gave me a problem. I had purchased 80 pounds of chicken at $1.50ish a pound, and had only been able to fit TWENTY of those pounds in the freezer. So the other […]

Weekly Wrap-Up, 11/26/22

Happy Thanksgiving! We had great, big (huge!) plans for Thanksgiving this year, but God had other plans. When Dan got sick, a week and a half earlier, I thought to myself, “Good! We’ll have this out of the way before our company comes in!” But he didn’t get better. It dragged on and on. Day […]

Weekly Wrap-Up 11/19/22

Another week has passed, and with it, the weather has changed. We got our first snow! And the ground has frozen. No one is happy. I do not usually keep a heat lamp on in any of the barns, but I have them on hand for emergencies. Well, I felt sorry for the baby goats, […]

Weekly Wrap-Up – 11/12/22

Fall days tend to be just about as full as they can be, with still more that has to be left undone at the end of each day. The garden bounty has to be processed, milking is in full swing, last-minute warm-weather projects need to be finished, and daylight is shorter than ever, with winter […]

Hay

We live on a hill. This hill really feels more like a mountain. The driveway is so steep, that we can’t even drive our cars up to the house in the winter, even with 4-wheel-drive! Every year we get as much hay as we can before winter, because we know we’re not going to be […]

Just a Day in my Life at Eagle’s View Acres…

Welcome to my farm! It’s more like a “wannabe” farm. I actually always thought of it as a hobby farm, or just my separate little hobbies, existing together at my home. Then I heard about “homesteading” and I was intrigued! I wanted to become a “homesteader”. But the more I learned, the more I started […]