CC Pygmy Goats

Sunrise over lake at Norwood, Louisiana on June 7, 2023

We have two varieties of pumpkins at the farm. One variety (with unbelievable care) can reach 2,000 pounds. These are called Dill’s Atlantic Giant. It takes 120 days to reach its full size. We are just hoping for a LARGE pumpkin as we are not willing to put in the unbelievable amount of work to get to 2,000 pounds. All of the yellow pumpkins are Dill’s Atlantic Giants variety. The smaller variety is called Early Prince Hybrid. These pumpkins mature in 90 days and reach about 15 pounds. The green pumpkins are Early Prince Hybrid. If you want healthier pumpkins, you should limit the number of pumpkins on a plant. We are not culling any pumpkins yet. Because of the close proximity of our plants, there could be some cross pollination.

The boards you see under the pumpkins are to keep them from molding. I assume we will have to adjust the platforms as the pumpkins grow. Some of the yellow pumpkins have doubled in size in less than a week.

Thanks to the extra bird netting, we harvested some blackberries and all of two raspberries. There are not very many flowers on the raspberry bushes, but we may be a little early because the vines are beautiful.

Eloise and Gretchen, who live in Wisconsin, visited the farm with their grandfather, Robby. Gretchen fished for brim and bass after she fed the goats.

Eloise tried her hand at driving and skeet.

You have been seeing pictures of bluebird eggs, but did you realize how small these eggs actually are? Each egg is about the size of my husbands wedding ring. The eggs look a lot bigger in the pictures until you have something with which to compare them.

Remember the bluebird nest that had four baby birds? Well, we checked that nest today and all those baby birds have fledged. Remember the nest that had four eggs last week. Well mama has been busy sitting and all four eggs have hatched.

The film below is a picture of new born bluebirds just getting their feathers. They have their heads down and you can see them breathing. The light cotton-like blue you see are the very early feathers. The stiff feathers on the lower right are wing feathers. The skin (pinkish) is area that has no feathers yet.

The watermelon patch (below) is finally growing, but we will not be harvesting anytime soon.

Despite a full tray of food only a few feet away, Tsunami and Einstein are both trying to clean out the left-overs in the bucket. (Below)