This saves us a lot of work, actually. The shed is not too damaged, it’s mostly cosmetic and leaves the shed mostly functional.

I just wonder what it sounded like when it landed?

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Gary picked up 3 pigs today. They are a little shy right now but they will quickly outgrow this phase!


Just a few years ago we were paying $25-$35 per piglet. We buy them at 5-10 weeks of age. This year the going rate for a piglet is $60. I think we are in the wrong business!

Snapper’s poults have hatched out. 12/13 eggs hatched.

They are so fragile when they first hatch. It only takes them about a day to get on their feet.

GooseGoose are already stopping by to see them and offer their babysitting services.

With all the rain we have been having lately, the ground has been way to wet to work. We finally got half of the garden in this weekend. The raised beds are a new addition. They are placed in the wettest corner of our garden site. We may be getting a late start this year but I am hoping with their addition, we can at least get onions and a few other things planted super early next year.

I know it doesn’t look like much now but here are where things will go. Yet to plant are some herbs, corn, squash, cukes and watermelon. And the onions in the raised beds. I need to come up with some more soil for the beds. So far they are layered with soil from the garden, composted manure, sand, and a little more composted manure.

I think I have found the perfect spot for the rain barrels, don’t you?

A number of weeks ago, a large storm went through and even a tornado touched down in the next town. Our tractor shed was lifted 3 feet in the air. Damage was slight but we fixed it and that was that. Until the storm of May 26 that is.

This time the shed was lifted upright. If it weren’t for the trees. it could have kept going to hit the horse trailer, the garage and maybe the house!

Needless to say it is quite the conversation starter in the neighborhood.

Here’s Liddy in the back yard. She is one happy little goat.

I am using poultry netting and it is not charged. So Susan (the white Saanen you see there) has to stay inside the real fence. She’s quite a jumper. Matty the sheep is napping and can’t be bothered.

She’s eating pretty fast but I think it;’s going to take her a while …

Finally got the garden plowed tonight. It has been So. WET! But 5 days of sun and no rain dried out the soil so it was ready to plow.

I was in Cayuga County today where they were plowing their fields too. Only their fields are hundreds of acres large and their tractors are as big as houses and cost just as much. If I was thinking I would have taken some pictures, there were more tractors on the roads than cars. But I was entranced with the smell of fresh earth.

We’ll just turn over our soil with a one bottom (our two bottom is old and weak) and disc it after. I intend on trying some raised beds this year to combat our clay soil which holds on to every rain shower. Stay tuned!

We have about 70 blueberry bushes, looks like we lost 2 after that winter we had. Finally a Saturday arrived when it was not raining so I took the opportunity to prune them. Of course I had help.

I spotted this beauty in the hedgerow. In all of my 11 years or so living here I have never spotted a trillium anywhere. This guy just popped out of nowhere. I like the red so much better than the white, don’t you? You can read more information about red trillium at the NYS DEC website.

The daffodils are finally blooming at Rooster Hill Farm. They opened yesterday when the temp peaked at 65 degrees.

Here are the same daffodils last year on April 7.

It snowed today.