Just for fun, I thought I’d post some photos from our snowy adventures and beyond. Here’s what we’ve been up to at the ranch for the past couple of weeks.
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- The pigs just get rid of the snow. What do they do? Eat it? Smash it into smithereens? We will never know.
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- We tried two methods for snowman-making–the traditional rolling method, and a new bucket method! But we only had one pair of safety glasses…
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- The boys say “Hi!” And then they threw snowballs at me.
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- It truly was a white-out for a while!
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- The view by one of the ponds.
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- The chickens got out to scratch around a bit.
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- Zeke didn’t mind the snow. He’s not so white, after all!
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- It really was pretty to look at.
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- 185 acres holds a lot of snow! This pond even iced over a little bit.
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- And right before the snow came, Matt started on a new homemade rollaway nest box project to help get fewer soiled eggs. (I don’t make it into many farm photos, so I photobombed this one.)
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- The occasion called for a new power tool: a brad nailer. Happy early birthday, Matt.
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- Cool design from the Green Machine Farm.
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- Marking the next template in preparation for cutting.
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- All the pieces ready to assemble.
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- Careful cuts make it go together easily.
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- My handsome hubby needed a tea break during his work.
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- Here are the plans by a fellow engineer-farmer.
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- A lovely snowy sunrise to enjoy despite the cold and lack of electricity!
It seems the 13-year mark of small business is when all your equipment decides to break down, especially if most of it was already almost a decade old when you started (but of course we didn’t own much “new” stuff. We like our equipment already “broken in,” ha!). We’ve had to do a boat-load of repairs this year. Matt says we can start calling him Jack, as in Jack of… ... Continue reading | 2 Comments
Love the pictures! I really enjoyed the book you sent Gram Michalka! How fast the kids are growing!!! The boys are not really babies any more. . .