Blind Hog and Acorn

Hot weather is upon Steelmeadow.  The farmers are doing what work they can, early and later in the day.

Golf cart "lids" working out as tractor sunshades.  The one on the Mahindra is about done. Looks pretty good.

Beans, zucchini, cukes, tomatoes, berries, peppers, greens all coming in.  Eating is good!

Been a busy enough week...  Usual farm chores, some landscape work at the Springfield house...

Miss Massey Has a new home- guy who lives about 2 miles away as the crow flies needed a tractor and voila!  Blind Hog and Acorn had just the ticket.  The farmers followed the buyer home  as he had to go the long way around due to the bridge construction, so he got a good 45+ minute test drive.  Miss Massey did brilliantly up the paved secondary road and back down the gravel tertiary road.

All's well that ends well...  Sam would say "can I has another pupsicle???"

Busy enough week on the farm- got those bucklings sold and doelings listed for sale.  Garden is kicking in, Blind Hog has been doing yard and driveway work and even supervised and fetched so Acorn could change the shocks on the old F350.

Acorn canned up some baked beans, brat buns, and pickled slaw.  Pretty darn tasty!

Blind Hog wants sun canopies for the tractors so Acorn looked online, then thought "I wonder if people do these themselves???"  Sure enough, they do and they use used golf cart canopies which can be purchased fairly inexpensively.  Will check out a place next week with measurements in hand...

Blind Hog and Acorn have been at it, busy enough for sure.  Biggest  accomplishment was getting the bucklings all gathered up and taken to market.  Phew!   Done and Done!

Acorn had a couple physical therapy appointments, one with dry needling.  Is just awesome.  Will continue PT once a week now for the next four weeks.

Garden is growing, produce harvested and canned.  Meg's pumpkins threaten to take over the garden.  Had the first cuke with onions- you know that summertime is here!

Between fence repairs, Sam's misadventures (killing a cat and then a few days later getting stung and swelling up), working in the hot/humid weather, the farmers decided to get a new small tractor and sell Miss Massey.  A small tractor WITH front end loader is most clever and no doubt will work just fine on the farm.

Now to sell the Massey Ferguson to its next good home.

Mom sent along a counter top ice machine- the Icy Pebbles are a total delight. Like having your own Manitowoc ice maker, at home!

Acorn's hip is improving with physical therapy. Only so much that can be done with bone spurs but things are better than they were at least.  Acorn was able to scramble up a ladder to fix the chimney cap on the Springfield house, and the Outback got a touch of bling...

After a fun filled week on the farm, nothing says "let's take it easy" better than attending a "No Kings" protest in a strongly Republican town. Blind Hog and Acorn were flipped the bird several times, several pro-Trump drivers kept coming back, honking their horns, letting loose with air horns.  Not sure if they knew that their behavior was exactly what the other folks were doing while driving to support the protestors!

Hot, humid, almost daily rain showers.  Garden is really going crazy.  A powerwasher uncovered the overgrown brick patio at the Springfield house.  Still a bunch of work to be done on that.  

Strawberry mooooon was lovely!

All 60 nannies and kids were run through the working station- tagged, vaccinated, dewormed, castrated, weighed and feet trimmed.  Took 8 hrs and several liters of water, including four breaks.  Blind Hog and Acorn almost fell out.  Good news is that the job is DONE!  The scales however gave crazy readings.  Will have to work on that some more...

The last goose eggs hatched.  One buyer is taking every gosling that hatches and luckily the male/female ratio is only off by one.  The buyers will be gifted the extra male.

A trip to Crystal Bridges museum was had.  A nice day off for the farmers.

Blind Hog and Acorn have been busy- the usual chores plus making a split from the beehive, working on the tractors, putzing about in the garden.

Sam got skunked- nothing new there.

Blind Hog and Acorn have been busy farmers- fields are clipped, everything mowed and trimmed.  Let the rains begin.  Well, as long as the county road does not get washed away...

Good news with the single surviving beehive- it is thriving!  Acorn will do a thorough box-by-box inspection next week.  Maybe even make a split!

Has certainly been a beautiful May.  Hard to believe Solstice is just around the corner...

Blind Hog is clipping the fields, already "that time" again...  Early blast of summer temps at the farm, upper 80's!  he has the first three paddocks done, a couple more on the west side then he can do the two in the east.

Acorn has been wrangling black snakes from around the geese and chickens... The snakes do love eggs...

Garden is coming along nicely- strawberries ripening. Almost time to plant pole beans.  Sweet potato slips putting out lots of roots.  Those will be planted in tubs this year.  Will find out if that is a good idea or not...