Canning season and weddings!!!!

August is here!!!

 

 

With the coming of August, comes, school starting this Thursday, canning and weddings. How does anyone keep up? Well here we barely are able to keep up with everything. Our garden is spitting great food at us, but I need to start canning it before we loose it all, but with everyone we know getting married these past few weekends and up coming weekends, it's been a challenge. As with every farm, life gets in the way! I still have to get a till in so we can get ready for our late season garden, we will see how that goes!

I was in a wedding this past weekend, so not much got done here around Cranberry Acre. As I said life seems to just get in the way. I also forget how tired and weak I get with such excitement and work. The Lyme disease has a way of reminding you that you are still healing so take it easy. I was so weak the past few days that I almost slept through Sunday. I lost a day recovering, but at least I recovered. We also have another wedding for this weekend, we will see how the farm does without us again.

I apologize that there was no tutorial for canning, this is because I didn't can, so hopefully this week I will be able to put one up of canning tomatoes! I also would love to show everyone our refrigerator pickles. This is a favorite and so easy to do. I promise to do my best with that.

 

This week as I said was a busy one with so much to be doing or that needed to be done, so when we had a very unexpected break in it was sooooo not appreciated. The chickens for at least 2 to 3 months had been going back and forth from the chicken yard to the pasture by this tiny hole in the fence. Well finally the goats noticed.

This sweet and looking so innocent goat , AKA Sparkles, decided that if a duck and a chicken could fit, why not a goat? I didn't have time to get a camera of the action, because we were chasing a goat and trying to save the chickens from the beast that had broke into their quite chicken yard. There were feathers and a goat, everywhere! Goat on top of a table, goat on top of the chicken shelter and yes chickens feathers flying everywhere!!! Anyone who has goats probably has this action playing in their mind. Now also imagine 3 humans chasing the goat, yes it is now funny to hear but at the time I was starting to wonder, if goat would be on the menu tonight.

Yes Sparkle is still here and now I have a patch on the fence until I can by a new section of fence.

None of our feathered babies are happy with the new fencing, we will have to figure out a way to put a door in the fence. One that a GOAT, can't find her way in. If that even exists, we will soon find out.

 

 

It was only a matter of time until a skunk found the eggs. I am glad because that means someone gets to use them. I had debated on just throwing them out, but was hoping an animal would like to have them and it has. Wayne smelled the smelly smell last night and some of the eggs were missing, so putting two and two together, we have a skunk that has found the Breakfast bar.

 

The guineas have moved their nest to under the stairs. Makes for an interesting time when trying to get into the hay loft. There is a lot of hissing and trying to bite your ankles, but seriously under the stairs? I just do not get it.

I swear , nothing is cuter than a baby chick sun bathing. Wyatt snapped a picture this morning of Midget sunbathing, just to darn cute!

 

Lovey the Duck looking for bugs! She is so funny and has been comic relief here on Cranberry Acre. You just never know what the duck will do and sometimes I think she really has no idea what she is doing either.

" Hello Wyatt, take my picture."

 

" Please Wyat..... Take my Picture!!!!!"

 

Oh they so want to break into the Orchard. They absolutely hate it when we are all in there picking veggies and fruit. We have a few break in when I come back from the garden with my hands full, they will duck and run through my legs to get in. I will then throw what I have and chase done the intruder. Never a dull moment with a goat around.

I love these two, Coal and Copper, for two little guys they really keep up with chasing off song birds. We have a family of Sparrows who love to come down and eat with them during feeding time, but these two will have none of that and will chase them until they leave. My attack chickens!

 

Lazy day today, I feel it also, but so much to do today. I wish sometimes I was a goat, Sleep and eat. I want to do that, eat and sleep, but with the list growing larger of things we need to do, that will probably not happen today.