It is late and we have been waiting for our 11 year old Ellie to fall asleep again.
She has her suspicions about Santa since she found out that the tooth fairy leaving silver eagle dollars under her pillow was me.
I got my suspicions about Santa too but I am not 100% sure.
Ellie finally fell asleep. [...]
Ellie, I, and my neighbor Carl, drove 2+ hours to Ruthfordton and picked up 4 piglets Sunday. Ossawbaw/ Yorkshire and Ossawbaw/ Hampshire crosses. For breeding stock.
I had planned for one of these pigs to end up in our freezer but Ellie named one Penny and Levi named the other Stacy as they came off the [...]
We hope to have a good selection of fingerlings Saturday if we can get them out of the ground.
After moving the laying hens Wednesday morning, we went to dig potatoes. I ran the cultivating tractor with the potato plow attached down a row ( our rows are 440′ long) of Rose Finn Apple fingerling potatoes. [...]
We have been running full steam since late June, 6 days a week till dark with some work on Sundays. This time of year, we harvest Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Tuesdays, we spend all morning packing up CSA bags and I leave by 2pm and get home around 9 pm. Saturdays, we pack up and [...]
I will be at Charlotte and Jenifer will not be at Matthews. Ellie got selected to play on her softball league’s all-star team from this area and the games begin Friday, hosted in Anson county, and go on Fri., Sat., Sun., and Mon.
We are very proud of Ellie but my opinion of youth ball is [...]
I wish I had a better story to tell. I was in a fight, got knocked flat by my dad’s bull, the chickens attacked me or something.
But no, I hurt my ankle somehow a couple of weeks ago while I was playing putt-putt with Ellie and Levi and my nieces and nephews at the beach. [...]
Last Thursday morning, Jenifer and I finished up planting the last of the potatoes in four 200′+ rows across the road and started back transplanting brassicas and lettuce from the greenhouse until dark.
Friday morning, Jenifer, Ellie, and Levi headed to Litchfield Beach. Jenifer had been planning this trip for over a year. Her parents and [...]
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