Winter Garden

This week I pulled out my garden. The tomatoes, squash and zucchini produced very well this year.  I only planted one of my garden boxes for the fall. I planted lettuce, carrots and kale. I have never planted a winter garden so we will see how it does.

lettuce 

kale sprouts

more lettuce

carrots just starting to come up

I also wanted to find a way to keep some herbs going, even if it is getting colder outside. I took some cuttings and brought the herbs inside and put them into mason jars. I hope they will produce roots so that I can transplant them.

~Chelsea

Moose, Tank and Ella

We have been very busy around here. Over the past few weeks we have been waiting for the arrival of our calves. Tank was born first and is very feisty. Ella was born last Saturday. She is small and shy. The last calf was Moose. His name describes him completely. It is fun to watch them grow and interact with each other.

The calves love our dog Sadie

Ella and Moose

~Chelsea

Family Sign

I had a week off from school for Fall Break. It has been wonderful. I have had time to catch up on projects around the house. My living room wall had been feeling blank. I had a stack of barn wood and wanted a cute way to display it on my wall. I picked out a piece and cleaned it up. I then used my cricut to cut out a stencil to spell "family". I had some green paint left over from a project I used to paint family onto the board. I used our electric brander to put our brand on it as well. Once it dried I hung it up on the wall. I had two pictures that were given to us and hung them up next to the picture.

~Chelsea

New School Year

Last Wednesday we started school. I have a wonderful class of 20 energetic 3rd graders. Last summer I put a lot of time into my classroom. I painted the walls yellow and the cabinets blue. This year I only have a few projects to do to be ready for kiddos.

 

I wanted to create a first day of school picture frame and update my class rules poster. The kiddos first day of school pictures turned out soooo cute!

 

 

I attached the sign with a Velcro square. I made two more signs one for the 100th day and the last day of school. Now I can use the picture frame three times each year and just switch out the sign.

 

~Chelsea

 

Chicken Pen Organization

This weekend I decided the chicken pen needed some love. I recently found a plastic black shelf on sale and I had some extra plastic containers. The spider webs had gone crazy in the chicken coop. I took everything out of the pen and swept it out. Then I brought the shelf in and organized all my goodies. I am very excited to have a spot for everything now.

 I had some metal signs and hung them up. They look very cute on the door into the coop.

The last update to the coop was a cute metal weather vane. I found it at an antique store in town. I had been waiting for a nice day to climb up on the ladder and hang it up.

I am headed back to work tomorrow and am planning on spending the next few days getting my classroom in order. Students come back on Wednesday. I can't believe the summer is over but am thankful for all the time I had off and proud of the projects I completed.

~Chelsea

New Roomates

Recently two of my Barred Rock Chickens had started picking on the other chickens. I tried various strategies to help everyone get along. Nothing seemed to work. So today the two "grumpy" hens moved in with Stella and Dot.

Chickens and Goats get along very well as long as you set their pens up correctly. The hens need their own water source and the goats do as well. I do not leave free range food out for the hens. They are fed the same time as the goats. The hens also need a safe place to lay their eggs.

I am excited to have the chickens and goats together and enjoy watching them interact with each other.

~Chelsea

Blackberries

I love this time of year!

Down the road from us there is the best place to find blackberries. We went and picked some this week. We were lucky to find a bunch that were ready to pick. While walking around we saw a few deer too.

I used the blackberries as snack in our lunches, ice cream toppings and even made blackberry butter for french toast. Yum!

~Chelsea