All over the world people are being quarantined to their homes to help prevent the spread of Covid 19. Our state is on lockdown with only essential businesses open. Our town is like a ghost town and it’s pretty eerie to see everything closed. The kids are home from school for who knows how long, so we’ve had to find a new normal for our day to day life. Personally, I’ve been loving having them all home. Now to share about some of the things we’ve been doing.

We’ve finally had a few dry days so we almost frantically took advantage of it. I kept telling Farmdaddy, “we need to get this done before it rains!” even though there was no rain forecasted. It was absolutely beautiful out! The kids have been playing outside and it’s been awesome.

Let’s see, what all have we done? Oh yeah…so the garden was tilled again. It’s going to need at least one more pass, maybe more before we can plant. The oldest farm kid learned how to use the tiller and helped out running it. It was some good father-son time, but if you know these two, you know they are both ridiculous human beings. They were cracking jokes the whole time.

We got the berry/rhubarb/asparagus/horse radish/garlic patch staked out, but the ground is still too wet to run equipment to clear it. We also have been considering adding in some fruit trees to that area as well, but that’s still to be decided.

We’ve been selling eggs like crazy! Luckily our girls have been laying about 2 dozen a day so we’ve been able to keep up with orders. If you know me and my weakness for chicks, you know that I have ZERO self control when there are chicks at the farm store. I picked up 14 more chicks this past week. There are 9 Prairie Bluebell Eggers that lay blue eggs, a couple of Starlight Olive Eggers, some Sapphire Olive Eggers, and one lone Americauna. I can’t wait to start getting blue and green eggs! They should start laying sometime this summer.

Now for some random happenings…with everyone being on lockdown and everyone at their homes we have seen a lot more foot traffic up and down the road. Since this is out of the ordinary, our guineas don’t know what to think of it. Now, when someone walks by, they try to follow them down the road. I’m not sure why, but it’s quite comical to see squacking guineas running behind a German Shepherd walking with it’s owner. The youngest farm girl has made it her job to try to intervene before they get too far. It’s quite comical to see, but I’m sure the neighbors aren’t thrilled with it.

We got my flower beds cleared out and staked out. I can’t wait to have beautiful flowers growing. I tried growing some in Colorado, but I wasn’t able to get anything to grow but Dahlias and a couple of Lilies. The soil here is so much better, so I’m hoping I’ll have better luck.

Last but not least, we got our “house hippo” neutered last week. It was beyond time. He got to where he was just way to humpy. Our girl dogs were getting tired of his antics and were beating him up. Hopefully getting him fixed will help deter him from doing that. Up until yesterday, he was clearing everything with the cone of shame. Who knew you could shave your legs with the edge of those things?! Yikes! Lol now the cone is off and he’s starting to act like his normal goofy self.

That’s all for now, but up next, Farmdaddy will talk about homemade bacon and the infamous ditch brisket raid of 2018.

Until then, I hope you all stay healthy and happy! Wash your hands!