The Front Porch Swing

[Windy Bay Farm]

I just couldn't resist posting this

 

[sarahsunshine]

And here are a few photos:

Needs a little fixing up... for the kids!

The barn - needs a little roof fixin for a barn, or could be converted to another residence.

And the house:

Big!!! Lots to clean up!...

But on 7.5 acres, with trees 100' high. Hasn't been used as a farm for a while (20+ years), and the current people haven't done much in terms of fixing up, but the place has been kept clean. Needs a bunch of minor work which we are handy with so should just take a little time.

The fields have grown in to 6-10" red alders which will make some handy fire wood.... Maybe we can use some pigs to help clear?

I'm giddy with excitement. I want to go get my hands dirty!

 

[Blooie]

Stories are great!!!! Don't worry! My jaw just sortof dropped and I said "no time to read all that and catch up, let alone remember some of it!"""

Flower duct tape is a good idea! I think paint will work, though. Tape has the possibility of being removed, especially with busy little fingers around) and DH already has a bunch of his tools spray painted green. I could spray paint pink, but then I wouldn't be able to use them. I think I'm allergic to that color!!!

UhOh... 140 chicks? How do you deal with the extra eggs? I think DH might murder me. He's already asking how we are supposed to go on holiday with chickens to take care of...

I couldn't handle 140 chicks for real either! But it felt like that many when an epidemic of pasty butt swept through my brooder of 14! While I was washing and oiling little butts, I kept wondering, "If I only bought 14, why does it feel like I'm washing hundreds of butts?" Never ending chore! <sigh>

I just couldn't resist posting this

Um, yeah.

 

[perchie.girl]

And here are a few photos:

Needs a little fixing up... for the kids!

The barn - needs a little roof fixin for a barn, or could be converted to another residence.

And the house:

Big!!! Lots to clean up!...

But on 7.5 acres, with trees 100' high. Hasn't been used as a farm for a while (20+ years), and the current people haven't done much in terms of fixing up, but the place has been kept clean. Needs a bunch of minor work which we are handy with so should just take a little time.

The fields have grown in to 6-10" red alders which will make some handy fire wood.... Maybe we can use some pigs to help clear?

I'm giddy with excitement. I want to go get my hands dirty!

OMG that is a stunning house. AND a log cabin too? That barn looks to have a hay loft... Look to see if there is or was a place to fasten a pully to lift hay up there. OR feed. Helpful for feeding in winter each stall might have a feed door drop food down to the livestock feeders below.

deb

 

[luvblues7]

And here are a few photos:

Needs a little fixing up... for the kids!

The barn - needs a little roof fixin for a barn, or could be converted to another residence.

And the house:

Big!!! Lots to clean up!...

But on 7.5 acres, with trees 100' high. Hasn't been used as a farm for a while (20+ years), and the current people haven't done much in terms of fixing up, but the place has been kept clean. Needs a bunch of minor work which we are handy with so should just take a little time.

The fields have grown in to 6-10" red alders which will make some handy fire wood.... Maybe we can use some pigs to help clear?

I'm giddy with excitement. I want to go get my hands dirty!

Congrats Sarah. It is BEAUTIFUL. What gorgeous trees. Where is this wonderful place located?

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: You have to Grow what thrives.... where you are. My list may never get filled.... Unless I get help. The desert stuff already grows here With the exception of Prickly pear. I would love berries of some sort. Doesnt get cold enough in the winter for them. except one or two varieties of raspberries.

Any trees I grow will get espaliered to keep them low and broad so i can manage them better.

deb

 

[Blooie]

Congrats Sarah. It is BEAUTIFUL. What gorgeous trees. Where is this wonderful place located?

I agree!! And look! Another porch! Yippeee!

 

[Blooie]

You have to Grow what thrives.... where you are. My list may never get filled.... Unless I get help. The desert stuff already grows here With the exception of Prickly pear. I would love berries of some sort. Doesnt get cold enough in the winter for them. except one or two varieties of raspberries.

Any trees I grow will get espaliered to keep them low and broad so i can manage them better.

deb

We raised a few eyebrows here when we started our plantings. We live right up near the Montana border. But we have several grape vines, apricots, pears, apples, cherries, blueberries (they take a lot of extra care because our soil is so alkaline), rhubarb, and a huge strawberry patch. Now strawberries grow just about anywhere. The apples and the rhubarb like a colder winter. It was the pear that surprised folks here the most.

 

[perchie.girl]

Gotto take Grandma to the DMV today.... New Hanicapped placard to replace the stolen one. Leaving in a few.

AFTER that we are going to check into getting her some hearing AIDS..... HALLELUJA....

FINALLY

she started loosing her hearing about three years ago.... so as you can notice. As her hearing went so did the volume on the TV which she keeps on ALL day first game shows then Soaps and finally NEWS.... Its nerve Jarring. She cant hear it very well but she likes to keep it on while she reads her romance novels.

so wish me luck...LOL.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: There are a couple of varieties of Apple and Pear that dont have to have a continuous hard freeze in order to bear fruit. I have a friend that once owned 20 acres of raw land in Utah. Bought on a whim they would go up and camp on it once or twice a year. She said the wild straberries up there were to die for... about the size of one of this pink erasers you put on the end of a pencil. and you had to beat off the wild life to get a hand ful..... She said there was one area on the property that was at least two acres of them.

deb