Whats going on ??

[james dilley]

So whats going on this week, around the steds?? around here. I Am finishing some pens up. And getting ready to plant some acorns for trees. And I am getting ready to set A trial hatch out of my E E pen this week. Getting ready to clean up A M H I just got title to this week. So whats going on around your place..

[kesoaps]

Cleaning up the sheep pasture; I've got three leaving and three coming for breeding. DH tilled the garden under and I need to get the strawberry plants in before it freezes for good.

[Ravenlost]

I'm trying to get my Fall top to bottom house cleaning done and hubby has been trying to get all of the mowing and bush-hogging finished, but it keeps raining which makes it difficult for him.

[mary,tx]

I've been spending spare time picking up and shelling pecans.
I need to get out soon and clean some barn stalls because I'm expecting goat kids starting week after next.
I also need to get the hereford heifer moved to the interior pasture. I'm thinking she's going to calve the first week or so of December.
mary

[Ralph in N.E.Oh]

Finished up on some fence. 1 Paddock to go ... Opened up the corn field today. Picked 6 rows so now I can go around the field. I divided the field into thirds. Now the horses can make a circle as we go round each third. The mud is a bit deep in spots but I think we'll be fine. I have 3 acres to pick, all by hand, but the draft horses stop and start when told as they walk down the rows. It is usually a nice October job, but the rains have pushed the harvest off a bit this year. I have 6 lambs to butcher next week and that will finish off the ram lambs from 2006 (26) I still have some equipment to put away before winter ... lots to do, I hope the weather cooperates

[FarmGoddess]

Still cleaning up tree debris from the storm.

Posioned about 900 bajillion fireants, not that it did much good.

Got the backroom/storage room partially cleared out.

Dug out the winter clothes, put away the tank tops.

Tomorrow I have the joy of writing out the bills and taking the dog to the vet.

Spent way too much time online but what else is new....

[Lynne]

Planting Bulbs, cleaning up the garden, turning the soil and adding compost, putting away hoses, cages and planters, getting the fall decorations put away, starting to sort through the Christmas decorations, picking up the pastures and mowing for the last time here; plus the everyday chores cooking, cleaning, feeding, paperwork... and then there is the paying jobs.

[Pigeon Lady]

Oh, Ravenlost you are ambitious! I love reading of what everyone else is doing.

There's so much going on here...

Ken finished hooking up the wood cookstove last week. It cooks wonderfully and heats the house too. I think our heating bill will be way down this winter.

Getting a second horse this weekend and needed to enlarge the grazing area so right now we're busy putting up fence and building gates. Got the roof on the run in shed and the board siding almost finished.

Today we started building an English 'Kissing Gate". It's like the wooden one shown here. You see these all over England as most farm land has public rights of way through it.

http://www.jacksonsfencing.co.uk/pag...&fmc=BK&fnc=AX

This will enable us easy access to the barn to fetch tools or feed goats without having to unlatch and latch a gate every trip.

Next week we start building Jackleg fences to enclose our mountainside pasture for a young steer that's going to be trained as a single ox. The land up there is very steep and too rocky to dig postholes so the jackleg fence is our best bet, and with 30 acres of woods all we had to buy was nails, which is a huge blessing! It's going to be a lot of work. We have to get him in 3 weeks, but I'm looking forward to getting started on it. Too bad we don't already have a trained ox to help drag the poles up to the site!

Here's what it will look like:

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/geissal45.html


Pauline

[Laura Workman]

I have a new trio of rabbits coming up from the Nationals in Texas, and have to get ready for them - building a rack for hanging cages and cleaning cages. Chicken perches need to be redesigned. My Potbelly babies need to be castrated. I need to finish cleaning the goat shed. A few cockerels are probably about ready for the freezer (lots more still growing). I'd like to provide my buck with new living quarters, but don't think that will happen this weekend.

[Rockin'B]

I'm building a platform and surround out of tile and natural stone for the Hearthstone stove that we have bought.
The barn roof took a hit during a recent storm and is under repair as well. It's getting all new shingles as well. Did I mention that I hate 12/12 pitches?

The three bottle calves we bought a couple months back are growing and looking great.

The tractor needs a new seal on one of the FEL hydraulic cylinders. That's not going to be a nice task.

The whole interior of our house is getting new flooring. We are living on subfloors now, but it beats dirt...We have plenty of inside upgrades ahead for the long winter.

Work is good though. Nice to see the progress.

Well, at Dun Hagan the Granex onions and potato onions are breaking ground. I thought the elephant garlic was too, but I was looking at the wrong rows. It came up later than everything else last year too.

The rutabagas, mustards, turnips and carrots were sown last weekend, but haven't broken the ground yet. It's very dry so they have to be watered every day with my sandy soil.

The kumquats are ripening nicely and we've been eating the Key limes off the potted trees for weeks now. This coming weekend I hope to get the hoophouse covered so I can move them all in as I expect we may get frost early this year.

Haven't dug the sweet taters yet and I need to. Our 'not quite a frost' from the other day bit the green back, but didn't kill them. The peppers from the spring garden are really coming on strong. I need to get out and pick the ripe ones this weekend and get them chopped up and frozen.

.....Alan.

[Txsteader]

Trying to get the pasture mowed, but the ground is slow drying out after last week's downpours. We're finishing the exterior house painting this week. Starting my fall cleaning also. Taking cuttings of favorite roses and shrubs this week. Have to replant fall garden, as rains ruined the last planting.

[Aintlifegrand]

We have a three day weekend this weekend so I have lots planned. We will be hanging more drywall, finishing the skim coat on last weekends drywall, mowing for the final time this year, planting peach, pecan and plum trees and finishing painting the new hen house. If I can squeez in putting the insulation in the next room to be drywalled along with the keepers...I will do that as well. Boy, i am getting tired just thinking about it. I will be glad when this drywall is finished... 412 sheets total, we have hung about 200 with only 212 left

[Jenn]

Putting up chainlink fence on front yard- 4 holes dug today and a few hours arithmetic before that sorting out where exactly to put those holes. Hope to cement in 9 poles this weekend when DH and DD13 can do cement mixing and helping me plumb the poles before the cement sets.

Also watering a few dozen new blueberry bushes and fruit/nut trees and 3 camellia, and just finished mulching all the acid lovers with pinestraw and leaves from the local city's yards. (And proved my little tow behind 2 yard trailer- registration number "Bill"- can do as much for me as a pickup truck almost, for 1/100 the price.)

Think it's time to order chestnut trees and buy pecan trees. And sort out where I'll put them all.

and watering veg- Egyp and a few pot onions and some garlic sprouting already.

[Chas in Me]

Trying to clean up the garage so I can get to the snowplow which is parked against the back wall. It's amazing to me how stuff can gather in a garage. Putting a pipe together to exhaust a new pellet stove. New to us. Would like a dry few days to finish some outdoor chores. Woke up this morning with no water. Blew the manifold gasket on the pickup, so will need to get that fixed. Should have become a mechanic. Everything I own is in the shop or needs to be.
Maybe the winter will be kind.
Chas

[shellyr44]

We are building a hydraulic log splitter for our Kubota, so I've been running around buyig the parts for it. I took the day off yesterday to get some house cleaning done for fall but ended up grocery shopping and going to Slaterville for cuppling adapters. Today we are going to butcher the meat chickens (11) and the meat ducks (4). First time butchering ducks. Looks like a long day ahead of us. Thank God we are going to have help. I put the winter window covers on the chicken coop this week and took inventory of the straw we have. I like using straw for bedding. Six bales cost me less than 2 bags of wood chips. My husband will be building the bracket for our solar pannels next after he is finished with the log splitter. What a back saver this is going to be. We cook and heat with a wood cookstove in the winter and cut our own wood. Right now I'm drinking way to much coffee and enjoying your replys.

[MELOC]

the rush is on for my concrete porch project. it's 22 F now and i am laying block today. (grumble) i hope we get a warm trend when i need to pour the cap.

[DaleK]

Got about 30 acres of soybeans left and 90 of corn, no-tilling wheat in behind the combine in the soybean stubble then we'll start spreading manure on the corn ground for next year.

[michelleIL]

Man, that sounds nice. I'd love to have my own little space in the world, as of now I've got a room. Have a great week!
Michelle