Category: Family pictures
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Goats and Fishing on the farm and Turtles Hatching by Ella Clare
The kids are not wild about being picked up, but they do appreciate getting to eat without the larger goats butting them out of the way. Below Quinn holds Fool (pictures 1, 2, 3, 4). Ike holds April while Quinn holds Peanut (pictures 5 and 6). April and Fool are 4.5 months old. Peanut is…
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Harvesting Pumpkins and watermelon!
Ike and Quinn harvested pumpkins this weekend with Grandad! Now we have to figure what to do with all the pumpkins. The two smaller watermelons both had the little vine by the stem turn brown. In addition, the vines to these watermelon were coming off, so even though they were small, it was time to…
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Oh Dear- A Deer in distress! Flowers, Muscadine, Sunflower relatives, and Family
Bruce used his thermal binoculars last night (9:30 pm) and noticed something on the fence (pictures 1, 2, 3 as we approached). After a minute, he determined that a deer was hung on the fence. We grabbed some towels and wire-clippers and headed to the back fence behind the pond. As we approached, the deer…
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HOT, HOT, HOT! Everything needs water and there is no rain in sight. Corn, Melons, Pumpkins, Costa Rica and Back to School
The bird nets have been removed because the corn is so tall that it reached the netting. We should see tassels any day now. Below: Picture 1 shows that the hanging pumpkin is still getting larger. Pictures 2, 3, and 4 show the cords that have been installed for the honeydew and cantaloupe vines. The…
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Pumpkins, Swordfish at Grand Isle, Fresh Pesto, and Back to School
We cut one of the Atlantic Giant pumpkins (Pictures 1-4) and one of the Early Prince Hybrid pumpkins (pictures 5-6). The Atlantic Giant had no seeds. This could have been an Atlantic Giant that was cross pollinated or this pumpkin could have no seeds. We won’t know until we cut a few more of this…
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Ronnie Visits, Goats, Water Quality, Ginger, and Cousins
Ronnie Sanfie visited the farm today. The goats were definitely happy that he fed them. Below: Picture 1: The corn is still growing, but has no tassels yet. Picture 2 and 3: Raspberry vines are continuing to grow in this heat, but no flowers or raspberries are present. The pumpkin vines wilt in the heat…
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Watermelons, rain, Canada, and Pumpkin Bread recipe
It doesn’t look like we got any rain in Woodville, Mississippi, despite radar showing a green and red cloud passing directly over the farm. We checked on the watermelons and they are still not ready to harvest. The rain gauge in Baton Rouge showed 1.6 inches on Monday, July 31, 2023, but the majority of…
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Butterflies, caterpillars, Pumpkins, flowers, Watermelon, Birthday, Fishing, and Groundhog
Butterflies were definitely enjoying the heat this morning as they visited all of our flowers. Play the videos below to see the butterflies and their larvae (caterpillars) at work. Just as the caterpillars (larvae) of Monarch butterflies exclusively eat milkweed, the larvae of Gulf Fritillary butterflies eat various species of the passion vine. The plant…
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Harvesting our biggest pumpkin (so far), Pumpkin bread, Biking, Skiing, Armadillo problems, and fungi
The biggest pumpkin we have to date weighted in at 80 pounds. The little vine that tells you to harvest was completely brown and the stem gave way as soon as we touched it, so it was defiantly time to harvest. Now we have to let it age for two weeks with the other pumpkins.…
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OMG- Fool! April gets a bath, Canada, Colorado Hike, and Water Filters
No, we are not torturing Fool. We have a two double fences which we fold out to form a triangle with the main fence. When we are going to give injections, or have the vet visit, we prepare the triangle, We then put the feed trough in the triangle, and invite the goats into a…