Thistle Dew Farmstead

Category: Critters

  • Happy New Year

    For the first day of 2016 we spent the day on the Farmstead and enjoyed a day off.  It was a great day.  We slept in then put a pork roast and sauerkraut in the crock pot for dinner.  We worked around the house to the aroma of slow cooking pork and kraut.Surveying

    I spent about an hour outside measuring and setting landscape flags for the future chicken area and food forest.  I will be putting the measurements into Google SketchUp and working the plans up on the computer over the next few months so hopefully I will have a plan for chickens and planting in the spring.

    After I was done measuring and placing flags Tandy and I walked around the land.  I think she was chasing field mice in the tall grass.  I saw at least 7 blue birds in the tree line along the road.

    It was a good day.

  • Farmer Evelyn

    Evelyn Planting Sun Chokes
    Evelyn Planting Sunchokes

    Today was a great day especially for the end of November.  Evelyn and I did a little planting.  I planted a current on the edge of the field next to what I am planing to turn into a chicken paddock.  After the current was planted we moved to tree line by the road and planted sunchokes.  I loosely turned some soil so Evelyn could plant the tubers.

    Evelyn was planting and singing.  We had a lot of fun.  She would occasionally get distracted by a worm or a bug.  Pearl came out and we talked down to see the stream.  As we were approaching the woods a buck got up an moved through the woods to the rail trail and vanished into the trees.

    While we were watching the deer Evelyn came walking up with a grass seed head in her mouth.  She said “Call me farmer Evelyn.”

  • Critter Sightings

    On Sunday the 22nd we were in the kitchen and saw a deer walking through the yard.  After going to the window we realized there was buck following two does.  I got one picture out the sliding glass door before Tandy saw them and barked.  The three of them ran through the tree line behind the house and disappeared into the field.

    Tonight as we were leaving the house we saw a skunk looking through the leaves in the driveway.  We patiently watched from the Jeep until it wondered along the tree line next to the road.