We put a new roof on and had the house painted. The roof wasn’t in horrible condition, but it’s getting to the end of its life. So, while we can and before it gets bad – do the roof. We worked with Renaissance Roofing. They were great to work with, every night the cleaned up

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The rain started far earlier than we had hoped. Our great plan of cleaning up the horse paddock and stalls didn’t quite make it so we rushed to get it done between raindrops. Horses are heavy, walk, poop, and pee quite a bit. Add a ton of rainwater and bad drainage and winter equals a

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We aren’t homesteaders by any measure – but we have an avid interest in learning about the past and more importantly not letting things we put effort into go to waste. While our garden was less than spectacular this year – we have quite a few thing’s that we want to keep. We both remember

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We started brewing (Yep – another thing we can try to squeeze into our busy schedules). While we really enjoy the vast array of local wineries in the Willamette Valley, we both tend to prefer sweeter white wines and less hoppy beer/cider. I like Ales and don’t mind drier wines, but still, not the super

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Our Garden didn’t do as well this year – or at least as quickly. I think the spring weather and cooler start to the growing year had an impact. Some plants didn’t even take off at all (we had stumpy cruddy corn and the beans and snap-peas died out). All that said – it’s still

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Our three hives are all thriving and we decided it was time to pull some honey frames. Our White hive is in its second year had a full super of 10 frames ready to go and about 50% of the second super has honey (but not quite ready). The Carniolans (Red Hive) had five good

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As time goes by when farming – you will eventually lose chickens to predators. Our owl from last year came back and took out two of them recently – our favorite Terrance and one of the Rode Island Reds. This leaves us with 5 hens and the 2 roo’s. Time to get new chicks! Bridge

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Summer seems to have just got started and it’s only a few short weeks to the start of fall! It’s been busy and we can’t seem to keep caught up on projects. We still have a ton of work in the barn, arena, and paddock area. Add in an upcoming honey harvest, chick raising, geese,

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