Jest Another Day in Pear-A-Dice - Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm in Alberta

CanuckBock · Nov 30, 2017

drumstick diva said:
Tara please bring us up to date. I thought you had forsaken us - have been very
down.

For one thing, I'm guessing Facebook has billions more members than the world's best Chicken site. And no insult to you but, I think the Facebookers just automatically LIKE everything to see where it gets them.

Plus which many, many folks didn't even know about your thread. I've been with you since you were on- I believe, the old folks thread. I have also sent every Canadian new member I would greet to check out your thread especially to learn how to get various livestock through extreme winter weather.

I truly miss photos of the girls and your farm but, mostly your banter. Maybe , please you could pop in once a month and check to see if WE are still breathing. DD

UH, the people I have friended (that's the term right?) are people I have met in the flesh or a small handful that I have e-mailed over the past 20+ years (one I am working at meeting up with finally...we need to spin together aka wool yarning!). These are friends and family, not billions of strangers.

As I've said, e-mail me and I'll link you up. I did pop in within the month and post here. Lovin' it--so user friendly and timely for moi!

getaclue · Nov 30, 2017

You friended me, so I've been getting everything posted to my wall. I still miss seeing you here, though.

CanuckBock · Dec 1, 2017

getaclue said:
You friended me, so I've been getting everything posted to my wall. I still miss seeing you here, though.

Maybe you guys should hire a reporter to follow me about and tabulate here? Those that can, are doing--! More than ever & lovin' it immensely!

drumstick diva · Jun 12, 2019

Don't know Tara but, I have never been on facebook and have 122,953 likes. You can get plenty here. If you give one, you get one. It's a 2 way street.
Back years ago I thought 'likes' went straight to facebook so I never clicked on them.Since I learned people HERE get likes, I give them out and others give to me.

Really miss Emmest and Lacey and you :hit

CanuckBock · Oct 19, 2021

drumstick diva said:
Don't know Tara but, I have never been on facebook and have 122,953 likes. You can get plenty here. If you give one, you get one. It's a 2 way street.
Back years ago I thought 'likes' went straight to facebook so I never clicked on them.Since I learned people HERE get likes, I give them out and others give to me.

Really miss Emmest and Lacey and you

Heel low:

Hope everything is going well for everyone.

All going well for us. Been working 40 years now to set up a nice, comfortable home for ourselves and finally seeing this happen. So many pieces we have not seen in decades are being brought out to be enjoyed.

Every day is like brand new with us setting up our house.

Go thru each item, like the BBQ. Replace the infra-red burner and then set it up on the shop balcony.

Emmest and Lace-alot are doing well. Emmy is going to have a litter of pups next spring. My son bought a house this spring, so he wants an ACDog like we do.

Grader is all ready for winter.

Moving slowly into our new residence. Cooked pizza tonight for the 1st time, had our own baked potatoes and chicken wings last night. Finding the soaker tub really helpful in keeping us moving along.

Taken up more fibre crafts...just finished a Continental knitting course and made a toque, started my 1st pair of socks, and plan on knitting some mittens.

Have five looms and five spinning wheels, one circular sock machine, and all sorts of drum carders, skein winders, etc. All the pieces I need to warp my looms like tension boxes, spool racks, table reel & warping boards.

Have a dedicated fibre building.

Just had cupboards/countertops installed and need to find some time to finish setting this place up.

Wove my 7th scarf, finally one for me!

And will likely do a bit more crafting now that white season is upon us.

The darker portion is handspun Jacob wool. Happy to be using my own fleeces in my clothing.

Harvesting our potato crop...

Really good year for blue potatoes.

Added Muscovy ducks to our bevies and had two sets of hatchlings.

Revamped the greenhouse this summer.

Looking forward to growing peppers and tomatoes again in 2022.

Have four pairs of Sebastopol geese.

Didn't bother to lamb any White or Blackhead Dorpers this year. Thinking we should lamb again in May of 2022.

Looking forward to this winter and seeing things like these cypress burl lights going up in our home. Not seen them since we moved from the West Coast where we had them hung up in our 1st house. So nice to be revisiting our past creations and yearning to make new ones too.

Lots of opportunity to continue to be creative in the shop. :-D

That's it for now...

Doggone it!

Wisher1000 · Oct 19, 2021

Great to see the farm coming along and great to hear from you. Thanks for the update. You Rock!

CanuckBock · Oct 19, 2021

Wisher1000 said:
Great to see the farm coming along and great to hear from you. Thanks for the update. You Rock!

Thank you!

I am very happy to see you and the Campines (never mind the Nigerian Goats) doing well too.

:hugs

CanuckBock · Oct 26, 2021

Getting ready to have a custom made canvas mattress cover made for the wool mattress (Jacob of course, our wool--of course!). Take about a month or so to get organized, have it ordered, made. Should be quite exciting!

Thinking for the king sized mattress, be about 50 to 60 pounds of wool. I will be selecting the wool for coarseness and prefer to use up wool not suited for spinning.

Gets washed next spring/summer.

I've already sorted thru a decent amount of fleeces...this only encourages me to sort more fleeces.

CanuckBock · Oct 30, 2021

Harvested the last of the spuds...jest in time for the white to finally show up.

Too wet now to have Rick till the dirt, but should be able to in a few days or so pending no more moisture shows up. Be nice if the ground can be tilled and put to winter rest nice and tidy.