Life and times of a new farmer/homesteader
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Test seems to have worked. I can post again. That's a good thing, for me at least.I left Friday for Portland. Hung out with my parents and children. Went to a plant symposium on Saturday with my father. Bought a few fruit bushes and a couple filbert trees. I'll talk more about the plant symposium on a later post. Sunday I got my ducks. The person I "adopted" them from was thrilled to know I have lots of space and a stream for the ducks to play in. There are six ducks, all different. They really are beautiful creatures. They love my stream. They have been exploring it, paddling up and down the little gorge behind my house, and back to where they sleep and eat. I spent much of yesterday watching them explore. They have about an acre to themselves. It's a narrow, long acre, but I would guess it's about that size. The folks who lived here before had kids and fenced in the most dangerous part of the stream. I would imagine it was to keep the kids out of it. The fence works well for keeping the ducks in too. The chickens, in their own strange way, love Polly, my dog. The ducks don't want anything to do with her. She loves the ducks though. And she loves that I have a stream. I don't think she ever noticed it before. She can't get through the fence that keeps the ducks in and the other critters out, but she saw them swimming in the stream and decided she would swim in the stream too. Now, it's hard to get her out of my stream. Seems Polly is a water dog. It should be interesting when she realizes I have a river too. She really loves chasing tennis balls down the current, then swimming back to me with the tennis ball in her mouth. She jumps out, walks up to me, drops the ball at my feet, then shakes water all over me. I guess I will probably smell like wet dog for a while. It's ok, I actually like the smell. I had a job interview this morning. A local timber harvesting company (read, logging,) is looking for a computer geek. I normally don't like working in the timber industry, but these guys are trying to do things right. They don't clear-cut, and they try to use low impact methods of logging. From horses to helicopters. No cats. Hence, no ruts. I should know by Friday if I am getting the job. It's a part time position, and I can do some of it from home. It would be right up my alley. I have some stiff competition for the position, so I don't have my hopes up, but it would be nice to have some income, until I can get the farm to pay. Mir, Raymond { Last Page } { Page 11 of 181 } { Next Page } |
