I guess we need to clip the chickens' wings. 🙄
A Day in the Life of a Homesteading Teacher
Or... my trek in the world of education (mine and others) & all the joys & trials that come with it.
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Friday, April 4, 2025
Escape Artists
They had only been locked up like this for maybe an hour or two when I looked outside and saw two ducks on the other side of the fence. The neighbor's side. There must have been a small hole under the fence that let them squeeze through.
I threw J in a carrier and headed outside to see if I could plug the holes. I had planned to use cement landscaping block (on hand for a future project), but that was too heavy to do safely while holding J. I settled on using pieces of wood from our firewood pile. Those fit perfectly in the gaps under the fence.
You might think that it's tricky to make ducks and chickens go where you want them to. You would be correct. I did get them corralled back into the pasture area by slowly walking and pretending that I wasn't trying to herd them anywhere. 😅
That kept them in for a while.
When G got home and checked the animals, one duck snuck underneath the fence between her area and the goat/jip area. She couldn't figure out how to get back underneath so G had to catch her in the goat shed and put her back on her correct side.
More logs got shoved into that crack. Now I think our fence is FINALLY duck proof.Last night we brought some "sorry our ducks pooped on your lawn and our chickens ate your perennials" gingersnaps over to our neighbor's house and told them to let us know if any of our poultry make their way over again.
So far, so good!
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Jip and the Goats
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Castiron
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Snow No More
Monday, March 31, 2025
Baby Wearing
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Potatoes
Did you notice a few have grown through my harvesting basket?
Interestingly the variety of potatoes affected whether they sprouted or not. I think we had planted four varieties of potatoes. Of course they're all jumbled together in the bin, but from what I could see, the tallest sprouts are from the red potatoes. One variety didn't sprout at all! That might be Kennebec or Yukon Gold. I definitely want to plant more of those this year!