Best Laid Plans

So my honey was off of work for the last 5 days, we had awesome plans to take advantage of the nice weather last week and do more farm winterizing. Well, after taking the hogs to the processor Wednesday, we get a frantic phone call from Amanda in Coeur d'Alene, her car won't start!

So, Thursday we head down to check on her car, got it started, left my Suburban, and brought hers to up to our mechanic. We thought starter, plus it needed some other work she had been putting off. On Friday, did deliveries, got feed, checked on the car, and still no farm work! Picked the car up, but it still needed some things done, so my honey heads to the parts store to get the supplies for what he could do. Back home to do more mechanic work!

Saturday was a volleyball tournament for Alyssa, that took most of the rainy day, again no farm work.

Sunday was raining, and still a bit more mechanic work, after getting her car all up and running, went to Coeur d'Alene to deliver it and get my Suburban.

Gotta love those kids, thank goodness Ron was off for those days to get things done for her car,
winter is coming and we can't have her an hour away with a unreliable car!

So maybe between rain storms this week we will do the absolute necessities, and clean up in the spring, like we always do! Calling for snow in the mountains, WINTER IS COMING!!!!!!!!!

Barn Work Day

Another gorgeous fall day in Priest River, how can you not want to be outside working? Sunday was barn cleaning day, we cleaned the goat barn, trimmed hooves, and wormed everyone. Now I know why my arm is hurting this morning, since we have 8 does, 32 little hooves can be a bit tough to trim in one setting!


Here is Alyssa cleaning the brooders, working with her happy farm heart! We had 7 chicks delivered to us by our new layer for this year, she is a Speckled Sussex, and is obviously a good mom, they will be in the brooder for awhile though.
Ronald, my honey, and main farm worker is working hard, hoping to catch some afternoon football when we are done! We just cleaned this barn this spring, so not too bad cleaning.
Alex, my #1 son, has his very happy farm smile on, he loves farm work as much as I do, the goats are in the background, anxiously awaiting a clean home. Again, the weather is gorgeous,
the weather man said the nicest October in 5 years. No wonder I am enjoying farm work so much this fall. Hope everyone is enjoying their fall work as much as I am!

Garlic Planting

Saturday was an absolutely gorgeous day, thought about going to Coeur d'Alene to check out their farmers market since they will go on for two more weeks, but the practical farm side of me won out, and since we had to be back in town for commitments by noon anyways, we decided to get the garlic planted.

We decided to double our planting this year from 5# to 10#, and since I sell everything I grow, I figured it was a good idea. After breaking the heads apart, tilling and adding compost, we are planting, we ended up only using one row, since we added another hose in the center, our rows are 4' by 50', can't wait to clean it all next summer.
Another thing to cross off our fall list, yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday was bark day!

Every fall and sometimes when we have time in the spring, we go to Panhandle Post and get a load of bark. This year we only had time this fall because of all the spring rain we had.

It is really nice and shredded and totally cheap, $20.oo for a truck load up to the racks! And they load it! The animals all love it in their pens, it keeps the mud down to a minimum and looks and smells great. Yesterday we picked it up and unloaded on the most gorgeous fall day, kids were at school and usually they help, but pretty easy for me and my honey, couldn't have asked for a better day.