V ery cold today. I think we made it up to 31 degrees. Right now, it is 22 degrees farenheit. Cold.
Today, I collected 14 chicken eggs and one guinea egg. I wonder if the cold is lowering their desire to lay eggs? Our weather is so crazy! Tomorrow, it is supposed to be in the fifties. And then snow on Wedensday.
I bartered 6 dozen eggs for 50 pounds of double grain for the goats. I tried some pelleted feed for them, and they really don't like it. Not only that, but the chickens don't even want to eat it! That's seriously bad, because chickens will eat just about anything!!
Had my pottery class this evening. I glazed several pots and underglazed some and trimmed some. I have to get some help getting my kiln from the old house to the new so I can start working on pottery outside of class!
I am tired. It's time to get ready for bed. I'll be up by 4:30 or 5 am. Better try to get some beauty sleep, before it is too late!!
Today, I collected 14 chicken eggs and one guinea egg. I wonder if the cold is lowering their desire to lay eggs? Our weather is so crazy! Tomorrow, it is supposed to be in the fifties. And then snow on Wedensday.
I bartered 6 dozen eggs for 50 pounds of double grain for the goats. I tried some pelleted feed for them, and they really don't like it. Not only that, but the chickens don't even want to eat it! That's seriously bad, because chickens will eat just about anything!!
Had my pottery class this evening. I glazed several pots and underglazed some and trimmed some. I have to get some help getting my kiln from the old house to the new so I can start working on pottery outside of class!
I am tired. It's time to get ready for bed. I'll be up by 4:30 or 5 am. Better try to get some beauty sleep, before it is too late!!
Beth & John,
Weird weather no? I’m just west of you in Longmont, CO and I get the same thing only a few hours before you.
Perhaps there is another farm question you can enlighten me on; Where did you learn the whole planting & harvesting thing? If you plopped me onto the farm today, I could not tell you any of the steps involved except for planting in the spring. But it has to be more complicated than that doesn’t it?
I think that my curiousity about farming comes from the fact that I grew up in Los Angeles and moved to Colorado (thank you IBM) in 1995 only to discover that my Grandfather had homesteaded a farm in Colorado just west of the Kansas border in the early 1900s.
Thanks,
BBB