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I’m just waiting around for an unwilling doe to mate with the buck. Sometimes I think it’s a myth about rabbits multiplying so fast.

I’m back!! Different rabbits same story. Well kinda. The buck got loose but he willingly allowed me to catch him when he saw all the new friends. He bred 2 does one day apart and I tried to put the black doe in but she runs around the cage unlike the proven does. So the white does are due on the...

DD 17 (unfortunately my youngest) has taken the natural approach to a whole new level that I’ve never dreamed of. Washable tampons. How did I never know about this? She talked to me about this yesterday and complained about 16 different kinds of toxins and she said they were even in pads so she...

DH is convinced that at least some of the pullets are from a fighting breed. He knows of a location where they are bred and he has been taking me to the location for drive bys. The guy has a bunch of tiny tractors in his yard each with a single rooster. Not many hens in sight. He said the guy...

It’s hard to take a good picture of the chicks at this time. I found one of them dead this morning but I will take the loss. I did put them through a major move yesterday after all. I’m so glad we have a 3 gallon waterer so I don’t have to stress all the time about them. DH pulled out another...

I don’t know what people think but someone invested money and cared for a bunch of chicks, giving them some kind of chick starter and brooding them through the hard part of their life and then all they would have needed was to be given a coop and wait for the goods to arrive in a few months and...

None there this morning and DH found a bit of feathers in the pasture close by but I did collect most of the started chickens yesterday. Well it got us moving earlier than usual so we unloaded the garbage bin and heading to DH’s place to feed the pigs and collect cucumbers. I will make a pass...

I’m trying to get started with hay bale gardening. I only put down contender green bean seeds that I felt needed to go in the ground or be wasted because something spilled on them. I saved one bale for lettuce. Well more on that later but if it looks like a winner I’m getting a bunch more and I...

In my area, no one has straw because we don’t have wheat fields. We do have corn but I don’t know if anyone uses the stalks to make straw and really it’s not many fields like it used to be. Mostly what we have fields of is sugar cane and that’s just used for sugar 🤷‍♀️. If it’s full of seeds...

Very close to our home there are square bales of hay for sale for $5 and I have been wanting to try hay bale gardening. So yesterday DD and I ran errands and on the rebound I picked up 4. We placed them in a boxed in area DH constructed for whatever 🤷‍♀️. I placed a bunch of contender green...

I think the pumpkin we originally planted (by accident) grew, but cross pollinated with a butternut squash or some other kind of squash because round 2 harvest resulted in some really small seeds, I wouldn’t ordinarily associate with coming from a pumpkin. The flesh was really good though. The...

I know what’s going to happen. The pumpkin will grow and take over the front yard and DH will chop the ragweed and cut grass around it and it will just have grass growing around the vines until harvest and he’ll get it back under control in the fall. Ultimately a pumpkin seed will grow again by...

I have a love/hate relationship with my rooster. He tried jumping me twice several days ago and that’s when I discovered I still have enough balance to at least give a low, left side kick. On his 2nd attempt at jumping me he was apprehended by me, and carried around in the cradle of shame...

Surgery is always an iffy word. In my case it saved me from becoming a paraplegic and yeah there was pain involved. Fortunately I don’t remember the worst part of it but my children have told me about myself. I have met people who regret their surgery but that was long ago and they are gone now...

I haven’t been able to push my weight around that great until recently. Had to get my reverse surgery so I could bend and twist a bit. I still don’t have good balance but I’m trying to be true to myself. I bring my wheelchair to the garden and I bend over and fill up a bucket of weeds for the...

Lots of salads, eggs, meat, seafood, squash. Cucumbers are my go to emergency vegetable when I’m hungry and not so creative. So I mentioned this on the garden post but I’m still freaking out about Tractor Supply GIVING us whatever seeds we wanted. DH said he didn’t want to be greedy and take...

I know it’s really late and I’m about to turn in but y’all just might not believe what just happened to us. So we needed to get some dog food and grains for the livestock, a new blade for our chainsaw, some reading material and we ready to leave Tractor Supply and the manager tells us we can...

You are totally right because I get more out of this form of social media than Facebook. That frequently gets me crazy. I was so tired I brewed coffee and only just drank it. That’s desperate. I’m not even dressed but I’m fixing to be. Got stuff to do.

Probably all of you gardeners mainly plant for the family. That’s mainly what we try to do on our end but DH frequently spills some corn intended for animal feed along side of the coop, pig pen, in the weeds and in our garden claiming he will later plant peas to grow up on it. I have been trying...

Today I think collect weeds for the chickens, put sticky traps for stink bugs and tie up tomatoes.