The power was out at work this morning, so I came home at lunch. Of course, I got the call that the power came back when I was within a mile of the house. No worry, I still took the afternoon off to work with Anna on stuff around the farm. We had our lunch…
It was in the 40s this afternoon, so Alex and I took Precious and King on a trail ride. Our basic loop from the house takes about 40 min at a walk. It’s nice to have a riding partner.
While I was the Engineer on USS Annapolis, Howard Craig was the Weapons Officer. We didn’t always agree on leadership techniques, but we were able to respect each other, and have healthy debates about life subjects. In fact, Clark Scharman (Navigator) and Matt Curitti (Supply Officer) used to join Howard and I in religious debates/discussions during…
Friends frequently ask us how we do so much on the farm. I usually answer, it’s just what we do. Everyone makes choices in life on how to spend your time. We don’t watch sports. We don’t watch much tv – in fact I think most shows glorify behaviors we are opposed to. We don’t…
A couple of years ago, my sister-in-law Rebekah got us thinking about making bread at home. The were buying the wheat berries, grinding the wheat, and baking fresh bread. At the time we thought it was neat, but overly time consuming and cumbersome. Besides, what was wrong with the bread at the store? That was…
Amanda stole the dishwashing gloves.
Based on the mild winter, we have decided to start breeding the rabbits. We will be staggering some of the breedings so we don’t have quite so many litters at the same time. The initial breedings are 2 pure Rex does with a Rex buck and a Chinchilla cross doe with a Chinchilla buck. We…
While we love to expand the farm, we try to do it on a budget. We have been focusing on recycling materials as much as possible. Why buy new, when you can find it used? Why buy used, if you can recycle something for free? Anna watches freecycle and I watch craigslist. Last weekend, I…
This past weekend marked the first hatch of 2012 chicks on the farm. We have over 20 chicks that survived the hatch. The number isn’t final because some may still hatch and some may not survive. We are continuing to learn about hatching chicks. Right now, we are hatching with the intent to sell the…
We have decided that we need a web page for our farm. It will take a while to transfer all the vision in my head to a computer, but we will get started. I expect most of the blogging will be done by me (Rob) but Anna will probably sit next to me and tell…