A Potato Forest

This is what happens when you grow over 200 pounds of potatoes!  You eat as many potatoes as possible and then the rest sit in brown bags in the basement all winter.  Come spring, you have a beautiful, purple potato forest.  Needless to say, we will be planting WAY less potatoes this year.

Also on a fun note today we met Norbert, as resident barn mouse.  Norbert seemed extra friendly, until we realized he was both blind and deaf!!  He was so happy munching on the grass, with not a worry in the world.  Our only hope is that Norbert doesn't decide to take a walk while Mr. Harvey is out and about.  If we see him again, we'll be sure to get a photo....he's rather odd and cute looking.

We have a slacker among us.

We went out to the coop this evening and as usual, the hens all laid in one nesting box.  Teresa was picking out the pile of eggs and yelled to Eric..."seven eggs today!"  And then...WHAT...eight eggs!?!?!  Does this even count as a real egg???

Sure enough...it's a real egg....just super, duper small.  And I repeat: There is a slacker among us.  Really...was that egg even worth laying today?!?!

The Piglets Were Born

It's official.  A litter of 10 piglets were born, many are black and white spotted we hear.  In another 6-7 weeks two very lucky ladies will become official residents of Silver Hill Farm!  They will enjoy running a muck in the woods and get nightly belly rubs from Eric.  We're excited to share our tasty garden scraps with them as well.  Lucky ducks (or lucky pigs we should say).

Spring!

Here's a classic spring present:  3 inches of snow.

 April SNOW showers bring May flowers!?!?!

Happy 2nd Birthday, Harvey!

 

For the celebration of his second year of birth, Mr. Harvey got a palace.  Sometimes we wonder if a cardboard box with a hole cut in it would have produced the same result!

Nothing runs like a...

Well, it might be the wrong color (those of you who know me will know what that means) but I am mighty pleased with what is sitting out in the drive right now.  2015 is shaping up to be a year of working smarter and this orange beauty is a huge step in that direction.  Updates of the escapades with our as yet unnamed beast of burden to follow...we just need to keep it from sinking into the pre-mud season muck.

After the winter doldrums...

Spring is finally here!!!

 Or is it?