Early February On The Farm

I thought you might enjoy a little walk around

the farm with me.

February isn't the best month for taking

photo's but I figured what the heck. 

Above are a few of my 'girls' doing

chores in the veggie garden. 

They are doing a fantastic job of scratching

 pecking and eating lots of weed seeds.  

Along with fertilizing ;)

Hopefully I'll have a WHOLE lot less weeds

this year.

Above is one of the doors on our 

chicken coop/garden shed.

This year the plan is to paint some

of our farm buildings.

As much as I like the old chippy look

it doesn't help preserve the wood

and we have to be practical.

The garden shed/chicken coop will

be painted it's original white with 

barn red trim.

Above is a photo of what my hubby 

refers to as our 'hog shed'.

He has no idea why he calls it that but

we think it was one of the original buildings

on the farm built after the chicken coop

and barn. 

We don't use this building and we're not

sure if we ever will. 

We could tear it down and save some

money on taxes but it seems a shame

to tear it down plus it blocks

the snow and wind from the north.

This old ladder was found right here against

the old elm tree. 

There was the base of what looked like 

an old tree house further up

when we first moved here

but part of it has fallen down.

I can imagine kids playing up there 

having a ball

back in the old days. 

Lots of laughter and fun.

I wonder if they had a tire swing?

Above is the view the kids would have had to the north east.

Here's one of our old plum trees.

They've seen better days.

This old corn seeder was left on the farm.

I can almost picture it being pulled by an

old work horse.

In the background is our porch swing 

waiting for spring.

The lilacs are starting to bud out.

Hopefully they don't get any larger

as we didn't get many blooms last year 

because of a late frost. 

Winter isn't over yet.

The mailbox will soon be sporting it's 

spring cover with Blue Birds and

will be surrounded with orange Day Lilies.

Rosey our old mare came out to say Hi.

Shep our Akbash following me around the farm.

Hubby moving our last round bale over 

to the horses. 

See the dirt in the foreground?

That is where our 280'X40' long building

was. We sold it and it was taken down and

hauled off last year. Hopefully we will get some

grass seed to sprout on there so we can use

it as pasture one day.

One of the cows that surround us.

Not sure if this one has had her calf yet.

Strawberry plants.

Mint above.

Rosemary...can you smell it?

We have Black Australorp hens and one rooster

the hen to the left is one of them. The yellow hen

is a Buff Orpington.

The hen in the middle is 

'Golda Meir'

and she is a mix between the two breeds and

one of the 4 chicks that hatched late 

last spring. 

The Girls on the compost heap along with Lizzy

one of the barn cats. 

Since this photo was taken the pile has been

turned.

This is 'gold' for the garden!

Last but not least is

Socrates.

He's seen better days but this year

he'll get a make over.

Those were my best overalls!

I hope you enjoyed your stroll around

the farm with me...and the dogs.

Have a WONDERFUL weekend!