Farm Life

This is how we roll:

• Planting seeds:  its easy if you're two.  Rip open seed packet, dump out wherever you're standing, reach for another seed packet, repeat.  Our garden should be interesting.
• Fifty chickens . . . it sounds intimidating, but with the perfect balance of clean, fresh wood chips, a handy dandy compost pile, weekly trips to Ace for organic feed and lots of love, anyone can raise happy chickens.  Coming soon, How to Raise Your Own Backyard Flock, Chickens 101.
• Irrigation: the heart and soul of any farm.  A neighbor recently pointed out, "Whiskey's for drinkin' and water's for fightin'.  Just about every farmer I've talked to lately is talking about irrigation.
• Outbuildings: We can't have enough of them.  Coming soon:  our newest outbuilding/future school house.  I guess farms can never have enough outbuildings.  Not including the doghouse converted into a small chicken coop, this brings our outbuilding count up to four.  
• Children: With this much fun in one place, why do we ever leave?  
• Homeschooling: We're learning all the time and loving each other more every day.  The bond that the children have is strong because there is no line between older child and younger child, no competition, just family.  One writes books, one draws pictures and writes letters, one scribbles and tells us what it says . . . we're all authors of our own biographies.
• Did I mention irrigation?  Just when you think you have a day to start erecting fencing, the irrigation needs our attention.  Andy moved dirt for about four hours on Saturday.  Who needs the gym if you have a shovel?
• Eggs:  We sold seven dozen eggs today and gave away two dozen.  Pondering our chicken egg anthem, "Happy Chicken Eggs, Selling edible joy since 2009."  Because you are what you eat, you know. 
• Little House on the Prairie books: When you're seven and three and two, it pretty much doesn't get any cooler than Laura, Mary, Almonzo and  Royal.  And yes, we rock bonnets.