Cold, Wet January

It's been a cold, wet January, so not much has been going on down at the farm. All the kids activities, and wet weather have been collaborating against me going to the prop and getting anything done.

However, I was able to sneak down for a few minutes last weekend to check on things and snap a few photos. I had an interesting experience while I was throwing out some hay for the goats.

It was pretty quiet, when I heard a truck pull into the unfenced property next door. Pretty much anyone pulling in there is up to no good, so I wasn't surprised to hear the sound of lumber crashing to the ground. Even though there's a dump center about a mile down the road, people seem to like to dump their junk in vacant properties. Sure enough, this guy was doing the same.

I decided jump on the quad and go catch them in the act and get a license plate number, so I strapped on the .45, got the camera, and fired up the quad. As soon as they heard me fire up the quad, I could hear them scrambling to get in their truck and they tore off down the road. The race was on!

Unfortunately, trucks are faster than quads and all I caught was the sight of them going over the rise. Next time, I might have to sneak through the woods.

On a lighter note, it looks like it takes about a month for the goats to eat through a full roll of hay. Here's all that's left from rolling it on 12/20. They'd pretty much demolished it by 1/20

Before

From 2011-12-20

After

From 2012-01-24

The mushrooms are finally growing. I'd pretty much given up on them, but I was moving the logs around and noticed these oyster mushrooms growing out of the bottom of the log. Maybe there's hope after all.

From 2012-01-24

The interlopers ladder is still in place. Some kids dad is going to be real mad when he goes to find his ladder.  It's been here since mid-January.  It'll be interesting to see how long it's there.

From 2012-01-24

I've been too lazy to haul the endless bottles we find to garbage can, so I decided to start making a bottletree in the corral, to help the goats better appreciate art and the finer things in life.  Actually, it looks better in real life, when the sun is shining.

From 2012-01-24