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The town I live in is south of Lake Ontario and East of Lake Erie. These 2 Great Lakes often give us what is called lake effect snow. In short, the lakes are warm, cold air passes over them picking up moisture and then impolitely dumps it on those of us downwind from the lake. [...] The concept of a Paddock Paradise is the brain child of Jaime Jackson who wrote a wonderful book on it. (buy book here). The general idea of a paddock paradise is to create an environment for your horse that as closely mimics their natural habitat allowing them to travel distance and obstacles throughout the day [...] 
Head Lamp – Perfect hands fee light when you need to illuminate your way around on dark winter nights. Yaktraks – Slip right on over muck boots to give a secure grip on even the most icy surfaces. No more falls! Carabineers or Safety Snaps – I can never have enough [...] Hello again everyone! Well this is year 2 of using my Big Bale Buddy. Yes it’s still in one piece with no rips or tears (that I didn’t purposely put there). Click Here for Year 1 Review This year I have a new hay supplier and the bales I’m feeding are smaller than the 4×5’s [...] I thought I’d share some photos from our weekend. The greatest find was a baby snapping turtle who was trying to get out of the trench M. dug for our utilities. It was a bit of a surprise since the turtles seemed to have laid all their legs in my garden on the other side [...] Welcome Fiber Arts Friday and Crafty Friday Folks. I haven’t been overly fibery this week because of some big projects and unexpected surprises. Let me start off with what I did manage to do. I got 2 skeins spun up of my alpaca/merino. Nice bulky 2 ply ready for a hat or thick scarf. If [...] Here we are at another labor day on the farm and another year of projects too big for the weekend. Project 1 was planned. One of our alpacas constantly got through the strand fencing and went on walk-about. So, I decided to rip out all the old fence and install field fencing. Sounds simple. Yeah [...] The sight was cleared in time with just 2 days to spare. I got a call last night that our new shed was on it’s way up from PA and scheduled to be delivered at 8am Tuesday morning. Here is is 8:29am and I’m already writing to say I have my shed! It still needs [...] |
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