Blue is the color of so many beautiful things. The great expanse of sky, the ocean, delicious Chesapeke Bay crabs. It's also the color of my house and barn, for unknown reasons. It's as though someone went to the hardware store, asked for the most sickly color of blue they carried, and then vomite[...]
I feel like I've been complaining about winter too much recently. It's cold, miserable, muddy, etc. This may come as a shock, but I actually don't hate winter. Really, I just like complaining. There are lots of nice things about winter that I can appreciate, especially since the pipes in my barn a[...]
Now that I've had my shed for two years now, I feel confident in circling back around to review it. I bought my shed way back in fall of 2017 for two reasons - to house some yearlings while I constructed a more permenant structure for them, and then to house farm equipment and hay. I was very[...]
I have been hard at work in the barn. My first focus is putting in stalls so I can actually bring in the horses out of the weather. Technically I could before, as I just used the whole open space for Stu, but Pony didn't really have a stall, he lived in the hallway of the main barn, and this way th[...]
I spend a lot of time at the barn, but during work this past weekend, I spent more than usual, so I got to see all sorts of fun stuff. At one point I was driving the tractor out and I accidentally disturbed a next of field mice. The mom bolted with some babies still attached, but left one behind so[...]
The barn has needed repairs since we moved in, which embarrassingly, was 7 years ago. It took a while to work through the procrastination. But, now that I've started, I'm very excited to continue, and all I want to do it keep working on it. It's really not that hard, and it's so rewarding to see in[...]
Apparently I've always been a klutz. My mom said when she took me to the doctor as a baby she had to convince them those bruises really are because I'm really clumsy. He walked with her to the car as I played on a foot tall concrete wall. Right in front of him I tripped and fell, and he believed he[...]
I have plans, BIG PLANS. Well, no, maybe medium sized at best. But my plans involve getting some planting done. There's a few areas around my house that need sprucing up (although not with spruce trees, they are too big), and I want to put in plants around the barn. I'm not very good at selecting p[...]
I've been living on at my farm for a while now. I lived on my parents farm as a teenager so I didn't have the same anxiety when I first moved here that many people did (how will I keep my horse alive?!). However, there's some things that popped up that surprised me. It's things I sort of knew about[...]
Well, the title gave it away, but I'm pleased to announce the fencing around my barn is up! This is an exciting day for me, and therefore, the world. Putting up the second part wasn't hard. Perhaps it was just the humidity and heat the first time around that made it so miserable. T[...]