The farm house & Spring fed Pond...

I can not hold it in any more. I have to share.

During our ventures of looking at many properties, we have found one which left a major impact on us both. The Captain was in Love. I was in Love. And the ride home was quiet while we thought about the Farm. Then the talking of the place has consumed many conversations.

We are going to try for the place and hope to get our current home sold ASAP. Of course there are inspections to be had but I am not worried about the home or structure itself. We spent over an hour looking the actual house over and even the basement was amazing. Dry and immaculate. Original Large stone walls. Perfect for storing the home brew and canned goods.

Here are a few sneak peeks of the place on 14 acres- a 4 bedroom 2 bath almost 1700 sq ft home with a limited supply of free gas for winter heating- almost enough for the whole winter.

The roof is slate! This front porch faces the 1 acre Spring fed pond.

You can see the home and 5 car garage in the background of the pond, not to mention a wonderful long drive where no one can "surprise" us with their presence at the door:

You can see the large garage roof top in the below picture. See how far away other homes are? The land goes a ways back behind and beside the house.

So now you know what we have been day dreaming and hoping for. The Captain even said "I want to grow old and die there".

It's love alright...

Sweet dreams,

Tammie

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Cider making and the New DON!

I misplaced the camera Monday and did not find it till just now, please forgive the absence of my posts. I had to have my pics for the post, right?! So Labor day had us picking apples from our tree and putting them through the fruit press/cider mill my Bee Man lent us. As you can see, our work station made it much easier and the fan was needed to keep the yellow jackets somewhat at bay. We pressed just over a gallon into cider- which is fermenting in the kitchen for some HARD CIDER.

We filled up my metal tub with our organic apples and the water kept the yellow jackets off and from hiding amongst them- nothing like grabbing some apples only to have one of those buggers sting you.

After coring the apples (the kids quickly lost interest in that part), we put them pieces through the food processor then into the thin woven fabric lined basket of the mill.

All the left over pulp and cores were put onto the compost piles and covered with grass clippings-farthest away from the animals and house of course.

The night before, we pressed grapes for a small batch of grape wine, which also is fermenting in the kitchen- and that reminds I need to call a guy who has 1 gallon jars from his wine making days for $1 a piece. I want to get as many as possible and I believe he has 30- which the tops fit mason jar lids/bands!

I also picked us up a new Don for the Ladies. The furry 4 legged ones that is.

Chubs and Momma- our 2 Californian does- have a new Beau. He is a New Zealand white buck from some of the biggest meatiest parent stock I have seen.

He is just 2 months old and is over half what our full grown gals are.

Meet the New Sir Don Julio:

Don't mind Mon Senior. That Roo is such a curious guy when I enter the pen. Follows me everywhere, talking away like he is talking to one of his ladies.

I have been canning and baking like crazy. Plan to pick up more blemished pears from the Kent Market-great price and makes some great Spiced Pear Butter. I have more of our apples to pick and will be making a trip over to Chris and Lisa's (1 acre homestead) to pick a different variety of apples to make more Cider. My plan is to have 15 gallons of Cider fermenting in the next 2 weeks Plus plenty of apple butter for the pantry and pies for the freezer.

There is 25 pumpkins waiting their turn and a new crop of french beans ready for picking- freezer is waiting! I have more garden clean up and a Beautiful 14 acre Farm with a Spring Fed pond to tell ya'll about. The Captain and I are in LOVE with the place and major motivated to get rid of this one to get the other.

I'm off to rake a pen and get those apples down.

Sweet Dreams,

~Tammie

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My ups and downs of Normal and unusual...

The new coop is up! Went with all wood and a metal corrugated roof. Cord wood will just have to be next time. Still have some things to add (like a sign which will read in black letters"Garden Coop" and some other trim touch ups and window painting.) I am planting Hosta's around the outside perimeter and adding a hanging basket hook for summer use.

Yeah..I know it looks crooked-it's on a slight hill slope. We built the structure on Panda's garden (the flattest spot in the area) and will be doing a slight lift with soil and rock left over from the solar pit job.

(Don't mind the mess- Things were moved out of the way while I painted and were not put back before pic time). I put the nest box's on the outside and still have the side covers to put on- hence the hillbilly air conditioning remark. I am actually happy with it. I used a lemon basil yellow color for paint.

Of course a door will come before the cold hits.

The wood was either free or less then $2 (as in the plywood) from the cull lumber cart at the hardware store. I think paint included, we spent $30. The windows were given to me from friends. The corrugated metal roof was also given to us from a friend.

I have been sick off and on lately. Headache, stomach issue. You name it. Not sure what is going on but I am not one to get headaches like this or even sick like this for that matter.

The pit is finally dry! Did the soil check this afternoon and it is ready. So I dug the footer and getting that cement in. I will not get excited until the block is being laid.

It took 6 months just to get to this point so my excitement will not kick in until close to completion. As you can see in the pic Panda demanded to take, it is hard tiring work. I still have the back and one side of the footer to lay, but the sun will be shining tomorrow.

I have the garden to put to rest since I gave up on it awhile back. Sure stuff is still growing....

So are the weeds. But the production seemed more a waste of time. Barely any harvest worth the time so I let it go. 80% of tomatoes were split or did so once they were picked. The beans did O.K. Nothing to write about though.The squash? Nothing much to say there. But the Long Pie pumpkins gave us over 20 to store for winter.Looks like the theme for many winter night sweets will involve pumpkin.

As every gardener knows -Next year will be better.
I ran over 3 of my grapevines with our ghetto mower. Yep. The gold rim painted tires decided not to turn when I wanted & whacked them down.... So not only am I down to 2 blueberry bushes (Thank lil' Man for weed whacking those things which were surrounded by a circle of fence for protection- lol) now I am down to 3 grape vines. All 3 different varieties at that. I wonder if they will come back next year.

I have paint to clean up and tools to collect before dark. A pen to rake and organize plus a silkie rooster to release since he likes to get me while I painted. And to think everyone says how docile they are...

Sweet Dreams,

Tammie

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