Kids these days wouldn’t have a stamp squirreled away from 2007 like I did. 2007 is when the ‘Forever’ Liberty Bell was introduced, which only cost $.41. Today’s ‘Forevers’ will set you back $.60. By Grabthar’s hammer, what a savings. Of course, kids these days don’t have to use physical mail at all anymore. Nobody …
When our people first came to these lands, they brought with them the original sheep from the south that founded the flock you see here now. To support these sheep, we cleared pasture and paths and put up fencing and shelters, and a few young trees, most barely saplings, were cut down. The sheep ate …
Last evening I sat in on a Zoom that was a celebration of the release of Vol 2 of the Farmer-ish Annual. (In full disclosure, I have a piece in their submission queue for an upcoming online edition.) Farmer-ish is the love child (my phrase) of Crystal and James (Ron) Sands who farm and raise …
I’m grateful this upcoming storm forced our hand — we had 18 sheets of drywall outside under a tarp — and a case of procrastination that I’d already dipped into (mmm!) — but the whole thing was a disaster waiting to happen. First picture is from when there were still about 14 remaining. The lumber …
Back around WoW/Burning Crusade, there was a Horde quest in Feralas to gather some number of Fey Dragonwings. I might have the name slightly wrong. The drop rate sucked. You had to get 30 or 50 of these things, and you’d farm these pretty colored flappy things while they respawned and respawned… for hours. On …
Inspired by Farmer-ish, I think I’ll reopen my conversation with the ether here. We have lots to think and talk about, and I don’t know — Facebook and the rest are just feeling wrong lately. Huge amounts of effort and treasure go into grooming social media for purposes and none of them are my purposes. …
Big day here on the farm! As you may know, we’d taken steps to teach ourselves to shear, and even invested in some equipment, but were only able to take it so far — obstacles included our own time, energy, know-how, and the quality of the equipment. We got two lamb boys “sheared” back in …
Our life here revolves on three axes, roughly: transcription, which is our main source of income; “house & farm,” which is a huge category encompassing everything from daily chores to care for sheep, chickens, and a rabbit, to significant construction projects in the unfinished and ongoing renovation of the cottage; and finally, “creative,” which amongst …
The farm is alive and kicking. It’s been about 21 days since my first journal entry on the pandemic, more than two weeks since our last grocery shop, and more than 12 days since I was last off the property (except for a couple of walks up the road to stretch our legs). We do …
