2 July 2026
Morning goat pic!
A damp situation
01 July 2026
The day started off with animal chores and swim team.
Our cream legbar rooster, dubbed “Permafrost” by Arya.
Catching up!
30 June 2026 (13 June – 30 June 2026)
It’s funny how time flies. I went with Jarek and Arya to Scout Camp at Camp Shands this year, from the 14th to the 20th of June. After we got back, it took us a little bit to recover, and of course keeping up with all the usual activities the blogging fell of. Well, no time like the present to catch up!
A gosling that hatched on 13 June.
Feelin’ Better!
11 Jun 2026
This awful picture was the best I could do of a red crested woodpecker that was happily pecking away at the oak tree while Meagan and I were doing animal chores this morning. It is about 30x zoom, and since my arms were not in fact a tripod, it’s a bit shaky.
Hatching day!
10 June 2026
We started off this morning with a new gosling! It had got itself out of the shell overnight. With this batch of eggs, I tried a different technique, keeping the humidity lower, and it has been working out much better. The last several egg batches had very poor hatch rates (12%), so we gotta find a way to get these numbers up!
Bread, Recovery and more clean up!
9 June 2026
Today was largely a recovery day for Jarek. He was in the throws of the cold, and skipped swimming. Evan was off to Soccer practice instead of swimming for a three hour camp. Arya came back from swimming, then headed out to a Grandma day with Grandma!
I cut open my rosemary loaf this morning, and it came out quite well. My harshest critic, Meagan, who told me she didn’t like rosemary in bread, said that she did, in fact like it! Highest complement indeed!
Busy Monday!
8 June 2026
Baby goats playing with mama!
A busy day today, Swim practice in the morning, music lessons in the afternoon, and Scouts in the evening, with plenty in between!
Turkey poult and clean up Sunday!
7 June 2026
Our Sunday morning (really Saturday night) started with with a cheep! A random turkey egg that we found stashed among our animal things hatched, and hatched much earlier than we were expecting.
The last two poults that we had managed to sneak out of their containment, so we are going to have to come up with another solution for this poult.
Easy Saturday & Swim Meet
6 June 2026
I moved the chickens on top of the leaf pile I had gathered after clearing the lawn from the winter leaves. There was a plethora of bugs and crawly things that the chickens really enjoyed snacking on.
Home school party day!
5 June 2026
Friday was a pretty relaxed day, we started out with chores and then I went off to do some shopping and errands. We needed to make a trash run and get hay and animal feed as well.