REFILL THE KIBBLE BIN AND FEED THE DOGS
Stressed about how to clean it up, I realized that they self clean and eat chicken stuff…
I grabbed the broom and dust pan.
Category: Pets
Duck Bribery
As it happens, a duck will follow you anywhere for a bowl of peas!
I ordered them months ago to be sure of getting what I wanted and to be delivered at a time when I wasn’t dealing with new layers and the meat chickens. I never expected, once they arrived, that their feed would have increased to $20.00 for a 50lb. bag. I now have three laying hens and a rooster, my two pet geese (Polly and Fredrik) and the runner ducks. I do hope some of those duckies are girls, so at least they can give me fresh eggs for baking. But if not, they sure are taking down the bug and slug population and many of the weeds as well!
I used to give the eggs from all my laying hens to folks who needed them or just appreciated a good fresh egg. However, since Covid nobody wants them anymore. That’s sad, but in the end, it saves me on feed.
And on another note, I will share that even though I was not here, I did take pictures, shoot videos, and work in the garden daily. I have a lot of material that never made it to my pages and would like to get it up here anyway.
Perhaps with some notation so you know the difference?
Thank you for visiting!
Tales of a pup, pumpkins, and quilting
Things have been slow on the Farmlet this week, unless of course you are a Walker! And, as it goes with a two year old, he is constantly being monitored and knows one word PERFECTLY:
NO!
No! That is not a toy, no cats, no shoes, no socks, no table legs, no sticks, no leaves, and
no pumpkins!
And on the brighter side, literally and figuratively, I have a near finish on my Posh Posies quilt. I got it back from the new quilter this week and it needs binding for a finish. Remember this?
and peeking out from behind on the design wall is a nearly complete assembly of this quilt…
Can you imagine? When I started this adventure I used to cut as I went to make a quilt. I have seen the error of my ways. Now I cut all, label the stacks, and it goes faster! Imagine that?
And here it is by popular request – the obligatory cute puppy shot.
B.F. Walker
His eyes may tell you he is innocent of all charges, but his leash and collar tell the real story.
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NOTES on chewed pumpkins: I recently read somewhere, that a bit of pumpkin is good for dogs. So I’m thinking of cooking it down, mashing it up and then mixing with a bit of brown rice to make frozen dog treats. (2 p to 1 r) If you know differently, please do tell!
Last week on the Farmlet
I finished this and it is ready for quilting.
I am so glad about how it finally came together. And yes, I did fix that one block. I couldn’t stand it and it was easy to do… 😉
My dog did a bad thing in the mudroom…
NOODLE, what have you done!? Doesn’t he look the next thing to a Chuckle-head?
So what was so irresistible in the waste basket? You might think it was the empty dog food bag, but no, it was his demolished blue ball! He’d chewed a hole in it and it was looking particularly nasty inside so I buried it in the bottom of the wastebasket. I thought the dog food bag would be a good coverup. Guess not.
Life on the Farmlet 