A Lonely Yog Farm Began

So we've had the farm a little over a year now, but we've really started doing some much larger projects outside, and instead of just spamming photos in random channels I thought I'd start doing an update when something significant goes down.

Today was one of those busier days. We've been sick here, but both tested negative for covid so we decided to try and gut it out and get some stuff off our main list knocked out. First though, our morning (and really evening bookend) ritual with the birbs.

The ducks are getting enormous, and we're really gonna have to accelerate plans to get their butts outside. They're just refusing to grow feathers, and the temp has been all over the place here so we didn't want the stupid messy poodie splashers to freeze to death outside somewhere (more on that later).

We have noticed that a few of the chicks are starting to teach themselves how to roost, which they have taken as a cue to start pooping into their food from the top. This is decidedly a new and creative way to crap in their own food, and I think they were quite proud of themselves.

On to work though. Not pictured was our foray into making a little fenced in area for our compost. We forgot tin snips at one point, and couldn't get everything to stay upright enough for the fencing not to sag. We've got a few ideas on how to fix the issues, but that's for future Jason. For now it's at least containing the poop and pine shavings.

We'd also gotten a pallet of concrete blocks delivered near the shed, and of course we had to build this thing pretty deep into the woods behind the shed, so my current back ache began. It was decided that a step be built on the back side as some sort of...I'm not sure my wife's friend was over and things started to get a bit cultish. They wanted to build their own stick figure burning man to set as a base for their effigies when burning things from their past.

Hoping I'm not on that list.

I had to pause and take break, get a lil bit of Guardians play in before heading back out. Ellie also took a break with me.

First thing we did back outside was talk all the rotting boards and junk we'd found in and around all the outbuildings. With the amount of brush and bramble we have on the land I knew we were going to need a damn big pit, but I wasn't expecting to fill it straight away.

This one is out of order, but this is the level of focus Ellie has when you have any sort of squeaking toy in hand that she's brought to you....usually forcibly shoving onto your person (face, hand, crook of elbow, whatever she can reach).

We did eventually end back up outside, built the chincy duck coop we'd gotten online. We got it near to the ponds. As is the case everywhere on the property, there's bramble and berry bushes all over that we need to clear out, but I love the view here, and the short jaunt they'll have to get their beaks wet.

We were also finally able to get the coop set up properly, but fret not the wife has decided we're going to move it closer to the garden, just the opposite side of the property, no biggie.

I really want to start taking some photos with a real camera, cause we have moments like this constantly and I hate how fuzzy this came out. We wandered off and were packing up to head up inside and saw this family chilling out by the barn. We counted thirteen in total, most of them milling up behind the barn, but these four kept their eyes on us until we got in. Looked like the three adults were just keeping tabs on the youngest of the group here.  

We finished the day cleaning up the birbs again, dragging slop buckets out to the compost pile and finally parked it inside. I don't know if this is at all interesting to anyone else, myself included. But I wanted to try something different and see how it felt. Miss you all!