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9/24/2009 - lastest from "down on the farm"
Thought it was time to update this blog, it's been about 6 months since the last update. Our daughter and family are enjoying their own home and all that is part of home ownership. She is still working/managing at Subway. Our son-in-law was laid off from his job at Timken, but had a new job within a few weeks. Lucky him! Our grandson is in first grade and loving it. He gets to ride the bus to and from school, making a lot of friends. Our granddaughter is in the "terrible twos", have to keep an eye on her at all times. Dad made about 12 pints of maple syrup, from our trees, this past spring. He learned that it takes a long time to boil the sap down. We have been doing Farmers Markets all summer. We are selling jams, jellies, and marmalades. It's a lot of work, but worth the effort. One of the markets that we do isn't so good. The other market we do, we have a few repeat customers. All in all, everybody likes our stuff. We are doing our last summer market today. The winter market starts in November. It should be a little easier to do, as it is only once a month instead of once a week. The cows and chickens are doing ok. We have 2 cows expecting some time this fall. We are thinking of butchering one of the bull calves. The chickens just love Dad's garden. They keep "flying the coop" and getting into the garden. They ate about half of our cabbages. We didn't have any tomatoes this year, they got the "blight". Dad is building the grandkids a treehouse in the yard. It's going to have 2 levels. The upper level is going to be finished this fall, and he'll work on the lower level next spring. So far, the upper level has stairs to go up and a slide to come down. The platform is strong enough to hold 4 adults and 2 kids. The kids love it. The whole thing is going to look like it's part of the tree with branches for the railings. Hope to have some pictures of the progress soon on our blog. Share and enjoy |
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