The Week That Was: August 16-22
23 August, 2009 - 10:00
I am getting some feedback that many enjoy knowing what we do every week. Some say we are living their dream and this makes it even better.
We had a great week on the farm.
The new barb wire fence that had been nothing more than end braces and a gate is finished. It lasted all of a few days until a steer hit the top wire and broke it. So tomorrow we repair that and see how it holds up. It looks great and is a lot better than the electric wire we had run there to keep the cattle from invading the cabin area.
The cabins were partially full during the week and all full this weekend. The only incident was Peppy, our sheep dog, grabbing a steak off a guest's picnic table before it was cooked and swallowing it whole. He got sick in the night. Nothing like this has ever happened.
We had a few rain events, but nothing heavy. There was a lightening show one night that stretched from horizon to horizon and lasted perhaps six hours. It was amazing. This was the first cool front of the season.
We evaluated (and weighed) the steers we are selling for beef and separated those that will be 100% grass finished and placed them in a fresh paddock where we can also feed them alfalfa. The steers to be grass and grain finished are in another fresh paddock where they get alfalfa and grain. The grain we bought last year has been changed and they added antibiotics. I hate it when they do this. In any case, we located another grain that is all natural and has no additives except minerals.
The never ending project to restore wireless internet to all of the cabins is not finished yet. One cabin still has an access point/router not working. More odd, all of the cabins have a 1.1 speed on downloading, but two have .3 up loading and two no upload at all. Can anyone explain this? They all get the same common DSL feed.
We have finished hand pulling weeds in the blueberry patch and also finished weed trimming every row. We have started to add pine bark mulch to each plant, over 3,000 of them. This will take some time as we do it only a few hours each day.
If you read our blog you know we have started to cut hay. The weather forecast is perfect for the hay to cure and dry quickly. With any luck the cutting will be finished late today or tomorrow and we will bale what was cut yesterday Monday afternoon.
The coming week will be busy. One of the significant things to accomplish is to move hay bales from Rocky Branch to the home place hay barn and fill it. This will make room for the new hay. We will continue to work on the berry field mulching and of course building fence.
Saturday we had some nice folks from Dallas drop by to see the farm and make reservations for a cooking class. We always look forward to visitors.
We had a great week on the farm.
The new barb wire fence that had been nothing more than end braces and a gate is finished. It lasted all of a few days until a steer hit the top wire and broke it. So tomorrow we repair that and see how it holds up. It looks great and is a lot better than the electric wire we had run there to keep the cattle from invading the cabin area.
The cabins were partially full during the week and all full this weekend. The only incident was Peppy, our sheep dog, grabbing a steak off a guest's picnic table before it was cooked and swallowing it whole. He got sick in the night. Nothing like this has ever happened.
We had a few rain events, but nothing heavy. There was a lightening show one night that stretched from horizon to horizon and lasted perhaps six hours. It was amazing. This was the first cool front of the season.
We evaluated (and weighed) the steers we are selling for beef and separated those that will be 100% grass finished and placed them in a fresh paddock where we can also feed them alfalfa. The steers to be grass and grain finished are in another fresh paddock where they get alfalfa and grain. The grain we bought last year has been changed and they added antibiotics. I hate it when they do this. In any case, we located another grain that is all natural and has no additives except minerals.
The never ending project to restore wireless internet to all of the cabins is not finished yet. One cabin still has an access point/router not working. More odd, all of the cabins have a 1.1 speed on downloading, but two have .3 up loading and two no upload at all. Can anyone explain this? They all get the same common DSL feed.
We have finished hand pulling weeds in the blueberry patch and also finished weed trimming every row. We have started to add pine bark mulch to each plant, over 3,000 of them. This will take some time as we do it only a few hours each day.
If you read our blog you know we have started to cut hay. The weather forecast is perfect for the hay to cure and dry quickly. With any luck the cutting will be finished late today or tomorrow and we will bale what was cut yesterday Monday afternoon.
The coming week will be busy. One of the significant things to accomplish is to move hay bales from Rocky Branch to the home place hay barn and fill it. This will make room for the new hay. We will continue to work on the berry field mulching and of course building fence.
Saturday we had some nice folks from Dallas drop by to see the farm and make reservations for a cooking class. We always look forward to visitors.