Even though it’s officially Spring, it’s a winter morning.
Spring?
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Category Archives: On The Farm
It’s A Beautiful Day
It’s a beautiful autumn day. The kind of day for a ride on the backroads with your head out of the window!!
The milo is about ready for harvesting.
Favorite colors of autumn
Gorgeous sunrise on our morning walk.
It’s the season for pumpkin muffins!
Here is the website for the Pumpkin Crumb Cake Muffins recipe. Be sure to follow Sally’s Baking Addiction, she has great recipes, I use her site ALL the time.
Blessing Of The Animals
For the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Christ Episcopal Cathedral has for years had a beautiful service for the blessing of the animals. A perfect day for the outdoor service.
Dew Webs
We’ve had some beautiful foggy mornings. The dew clings to spider webs, they are absolutely beautiful and so different.
This one looks like it’s had a few repairs.
Condos!
Hay!
We’ve had some really beautiful days
Some stormy days. Clouds over a wheat field.
Lots of rain and nice days really makes the grass grow. Makes for a very good crop of hay.
Brome grass in bloom
Flooding
We’ve had a lot of rain over the last couple of days. The Mulberry Creek is out of her banks. I don’t know how much rain we’ve received as my cute little rain gauge froze last winter and I haven’t put the new one up yet. It’s on my “to do list” for tomorrow.
The back roads around us all look the same.
The road to the north.
The road to the south.
The blacktop into town was closed in multiple places. It’s amazing how many people go past the barricades and drive thru the flood waters.
Miles of gravel roads will need repaired.
Flooded fields
Prayers for all who are affected by the flooding.
Beautiful Sunrise
I love sunrises. Mornings are my favorite time of the day! I also like afternoon and sunsets and stars. I really like all the day!
It’s was a beautiful start today.
Makes one wonder what the weather has planned for us. There is snow in the forecast. Hopefully it won’t be like the blizzard that we had a few days after Thanksgiving.
2018 Blizzard
More Snow – Photos
I had planned on going back out this morning to get some more photos of the snow covering the trees. The snow fell so gentle and blanketed the trees, they looked like flocked Christmas trees – only much better!! We ventured out early, but the wind came up and it was more like a blizzard, so enjoy these photos from yesterday.
Native (some say invasive, but I like them!) Red Cedar
I don’t know what model this old red truck is, but it was so pretty in the snow.
Typical Autumn Day In Kansas
It’s a beautiful autumn day, or maybe a winter day. Started snowing early this morning and has been snowing all day.
Snow roses
Dinner tonight won’t be on the patio.
Wylie likes to ride with his head out the window.
Uncut milo
Does It Really Work???
I am amazed, I can’t believe it, but it works (so far!!)
I have had a lot of sparrows in my chicken yard. They are even getting into the chicken house, and I’m like a crazy woman in there wielding a broom to get them out! There are HUNDREDS of the little birds. The sparrows eat a lot of food, my girls like to dine on organic feed, scratch grain and meal worms, not what I want to be feeding to a huge flock of sparrows. I’m also concerned about wild birds spreading diseases to my girls. Another thing that really made me want to find a way to get rid of the sparrows, I have a very large pyracantha shrub in their run (yes their chicken run has numerous shrubs and even rose bushes). Last year the wild birds ate ALL the little green berries that were to be beautiful orange berries in the fall. This year my bush was again loaded with lots of berries, only to be devoured again, ENOUGH!
I Googled “how to get rid of wild birds in your chicken run”. It was good to know that I’m not the only one having problems with unwanted birds. The solution……..
Hang CD’s in the chicken run. What? It actually works!!
This spring we had netting installed over the run to protect the girls from a hawk. The perfect way to hang CD’s throughout the run.
It’s been 2 days and there has not been any wild birds in the chicken run or even sitting in the trees or on the fence. I hope it keeps working!!
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