tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89228987615507570512024-03-22T00:12:29.287-04:00StoneAcresFarmStoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-22804493952590415282015-09-22T13:58:00.000-04:002015-09-22T14:00:06.778-04:00Market Steer and canning beefHubby took off Hannah's 4h market steer, (she decided not to show him this year), to the butcher on Saturday. We sold half of him and we will take the other half. We had just butchered a steer back in the winter, our freezers are full, so I'm trying to can up some of the beef we have in the freezers to make room for the beef we will have coming. We also have half a hog at the butcher and we should be able to pick it up this week or next. Nothing like fresh pork.<br />
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If you don't have a way to raise your own beef or pork, check with a local farmer, sometimes they will sell on the half or quarters. It costs more that way at the time, but half a beef would stock up your freezer and you would know where your meat came from. Plus you would be helping out a local farmer. <br />
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StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-55481556039696368502015-09-04T19:46:00.001-04:002015-09-04T19:46:25.914-04:00It's been fair weekIt has been the week of our county fair and our daughter Hannah's last year to be in the fair for 4h. Cowboy, her horse and her did a great job for her last county 4h horse show. She took 1st place in senior showmanship, 1st place in the flag race, barrels and cowboy extreme. Pretty good way to end her last 4h show. All her hard work and time has paid off for her. <br />
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StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-2446906643457459382015-08-18T01:02:00.001-04:002015-08-18T01:02:57.814-04:00Not too much going on. I have posted anything for a few days. Not much has been going on. Been busy trying to get an early start on my fall cleaning and organizing. So far I'm almost done with the panty/ laundry room. I should be able to finish it up tomorrow, I hope. I have a doctors appt. and some errands to run while I am in town. Working on cleaning out my sewing room and getting it ready. I plan on doing a lot of sewing this winter. I need to piece some quilt tops and get them quilted. <br />
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I am getting ready to get back into my weekly food preps and start on the 21 day fix challenge. I need to lose a couple of pounds, well a lot of couple of pounds. Like a said not much going on, I have just been trying to take it easy and rest up after my surgery. I have been trying to come up with some things to blog about and share on farming. I have a few ideas, as soon as I can get them wrote up, and worked out, I will post some of them. Hope it will be soon.StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-32486956095215377992015-08-08T10:12:00.000-04:002015-08-08T10:12:57.891-04:00They're here finally and the day around the farm. We finally got our two little gilt piglets. They are so cute. I was suppose to have picked them up last week but ended up at the ER the night before and admitted to the hospital for appendix surgery. So, I was a week later getting them. Thursday evening got a little crazy, I had to have my daughter run me into town to meet up with the farmer I had purchased them from and hubby stayed home to lasso a little heifer calf for a guy who was buying her from us. Yeah, as soon as farmer hubby, lassoed the little heifer calf, she took off and dragged him down the hill. So, he did a little grass skiing. Wish I could have been there to seen that. He is pretty good and sore from it. At least, he was prepared and expecting her to do that. They got her loaded up and away she went. She was a cute little heifer. I had thought about keeping her and making a milk cow out of her but she was a Guernsey/Dexter cross and I say, she will make some one a good milk cow, but we have a big ole angus bull, and didn't want to take a chance of him breeding her. She looked like she was going to make a small cow. But now, I can start milking old Blossom, the little heifers mom. <br />
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Back to the little piggies, they are so cute and tiny. They are around 7 weeks old. We have them up in our barn, until they get a little bigger and a better lot fixed for them. The little gals had some lice on them when I picked them up, I have really never had to deal with lice on animals, but they do get them. So, I will be giving them a good dusting of Diatomaceous earth and see if that helps, then move them to a different stall and use the diatomaceous earth in the stall they are in. If that doesn't work, I will have to come up with something else. Catching them is going to be the fun part. I really haven't a chance to mess with them a lot since I got them. Farmer hubby, my dad and son are going to the drag races today, so I should have a little time to go down to the barn and start letting them get use to me today.<br />
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Farmer Hubby ran to town to check out one of our local farmers markets to see if any of our farmer friends has corn for sale today. Our corn didn't do anything, so hopefully he can round up about 10 dz ears from someone so I can can corn today while they are gone. Not much of a canning season from our garden this year, but maybe next year will be better.<br />
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StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-34358233094612117222015-08-03T23:59:00.000-04:002015-08-03T23:59:37.600-04:00Getting organized. I figured since I was going to have to take it easy that it would be a good time for me to start working up a plan to get more organized. I'm so unorganized, I can't keep to a schedule at all. When my kids were younger, I was better about keeping them on a regular schedule but since they are almost grown, not so much. It is about time for us to get back into the swing of homeschooling, and I need to working on lesson plans too. I figure baby steps is the way to go at first. Nothing to overwhelming. I sat down tonight and came up with a weeks worth of meals planned out. Not to hard, and came up with a plan for organizing and cleaning each room in the house. The only room I don't have to worry about is our 17 year old daughters room. She keeps her room picked up and organized way better than me. My oldest daughter is the same way about her house. She pretty well keeps it spotless, they must have taken after their dad. <br />
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Here is the weeks meal plan.<br />
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Baked ham, mashed potatoes, fried apples and homemade biscuits. <br />
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Spaghetti with homemade rolls<br />
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Thursday<br />
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Beef with homemade noodles, mashed potatoes, and homemade rolls<br />
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Pork chops, green beans, corn and cornbread<br />
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Chicken n dumplings, green beans, mashed potatoes<br />
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Beef Stir fry with rice.<br />
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It is Saturday or Sunday we are suppose to go to a family cook out. I will have to find out from hubby which day it is. I also plan on baking some pies and a cake this week, if I feel like it. Depends on how I am feeling from my surgery.<br />
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Week 1<br />
Our Bedroom. We have already started on it, hubby has been redoing the closet to add more storage. I have a bunch of clothes, papers and homeschooling stuff I need to sit and go though. So I figured, since I am not able to do a lot right now is the perfect time to go though it and pitch it.<br />
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My sewing room. Well I guess it is my sewing room and everything else room. I want to finish organizing it and give it a good cleaning. I need to finish painting it but that will have to wait a few weeks. <br />
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I will stop at two weeks, to see how far I can get. Might not work out as I hope it will but I am going to try really hard. <br />
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I also need to work on a place for the piglets, since I ended up in the hospital, I didn't get their place ready or them. I will go sometime toward the end of the week, and pick them up. I can not drive right now, so I have to have some one take me.<br />
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I will keep you all updated and hopefully post some pics of what I get done.StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-50504773046255061962015-08-03T07:18:00.000-04:002015-08-03T07:18:07.053-04:00What's been going on. It has been a while since I have posted anything. It has been kinda crazy around here the last couple of weeks. I had been trying to get some canning done, not that I have had much to can. I had several dogs to groom, 4h spaghetti dinner we had to get ready for and prepare and then, on Wednesday, I started getting this really bad pain on my right side. I kept working through the day, grooming a dog, cleaning, and when hubby got home we worked on building a large cage in one of the chicken coops, so we could turn out some of our chickens that had gotten to big from the small cages they were in. By 11 pm that night, I was really in pain, and called my mom to take me to the ER. They did a CT scan, and come to find out it was my appendix. So, they admitted me to the hospital and Thursday evening, I went into surgery to have my appendix removed. Doctor said, it was a mess. I finally got to come home Saturday morning. That is two surgeries in less than a year for me. <br />
I am still having some pain, and my tummy is messed up from all the meds.. So glad, they found it out before it ruptured. <br />
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<br />StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-79545792305584979582015-07-19T23:39:00.001-04:002015-07-19T23:39:23.445-04:00Cleaning Chicken coop #2 and 4h market steer. Went out today and decided to clean chicken coop # out, it was a mess. Chickens can be messy, but I enjoy having them. My Grandma Akers loved her chickens. She would always get her chicken books in the mail and look though it for hours. She always had them while I was going up. She had this one mean ole rooster. He would chase me every time I would go over to visit her. I may have only been around 4 years old but I still remember that ole rooster. For the longest time, I was afraid of chickens, but finally I got over that fear and so glad I did. We have had chickens off and on, for about the last ten or eleven years now. I guess, I get my love of chickens from my grandmothers. Both of them raised chickens.<br />
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Cleaning out the chicken coops isn't one of my favorite chores to do on the farm. Today was a hot day to pick to decide to clean out the #2 coop. It was a hurried job. I usually give the coops two really good cleaning a year, once in the spring and once in the fall and get them ready for winter. Then, the rest of the time, I just clean at them. I have a broody hen and she was not happy with me cleaning out the nesting boxes. <br />
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Our coops aren't anything fancy. Most of the time, the chickens, free range and we put them up at night. They still make a mess when they go on the roost for the night.<br />
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<br />StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-30943560545883048902015-07-17T08:24:00.000-04:002015-07-17T08:24:48.131-04:00Blueberry syrup, green tomatoes and some canning. I have been trying to get a little canning done. We have had so much rain our garden isn't doing the greatest. As soon as the tomatoes start turning, they start to rot. We have never had that problem before. As far as the plants go, they look great and loaded with tomatoes. Everyone around here is having trouble with their gardens and stuff rotting. <br />
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With the green tomatoes, I slice them kinda thick, add lemon juice, salt and boiling hot water. I hot water bath them for 20 mins. Most of the recipes, I saw said 7 mins. but I felt like I should do it for a little longer. I wish I had wrote down my recipe down from last year. The ones I did last year turned out great. </div>
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Blueberry syrup was pretty easy to make. Basically, it is just like making jelly except you don't add pectin. Cook it down till it is as thick as you want it. It won't be thick like syrup you buy at the store. I have some syrups to make. I wan to make strawberry and cherry. I use the blueberry and blackberry syrup I made in tea and loved it. It was really good on pancakes. </div>
StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-92021140805270285462015-07-11T21:59:00.000-04:002015-07-11T22:03:54.308-04:00Around the farm and blackberries We have a bunch of blackberries this year to pick. I know there is no way we will pick them all. We have already put several quart bags in the freezer. I made easy blackberry cobbler yesterday and canned 4 pts of blackberry syrup and little over a half a pint of syrup to put in the frig to start using. I use blackberries for cobblers, dumplins, pies, jam and jelly, and syrup. I might try and make some juice this year, if I can get the time. Garden stuff is coming on and I will have other canning to do, plus my pet grooming business. I want to pick some blackberry leave to dehydrate for tea. <br />
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The cobbler recipe is easy. 1 cup sugar, 1 cup milk, 1 cup self-rising flour, and mix. Add 1 stick of butter to your baking dish, stick in the oven to melt while you are mixing up your ingredients. Once your butter is melted, add your mixture. Then add you berries. Bake for 1 hours at 350 degrees. </div>
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Yesterday, after picking blackberries, just a few minutes after being home it started raining and raining hard. We just got back off the hill in time or we would have been caught in it. I was working around in the kitchen and Hannah was helping, and I looked outside and the water was rushing off the hill and into the creek and the creek was starting to over flow. It was crazy, I have never seen it do that before. </div>
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I will be doing some canning this week. I hope to can green tomatoes for frying and green beans. Not going to can as many beans this year as I usually do. I might try and get 21 qts., that should be enough. I already have a bunch canned up from last year. I hope our corn does something, so I can can up some. I would love to make up a big pot of veggie soup and can it. </div>
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<br />StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-3216117927071729532015-07-08T23:41:00.001-04:002015-07-09T02:43:55.849-04:00Salting, Curing and Smoking your own meat<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S6UkXhHUTfM" width="480"></iframe>Tim Farmer of Ky Afield on PBS - KET video. Love to watch the show when I'm able to. I was looking youtube videos and came across this one on salting, curing, and smoking your own meat. One of our little project we want to do is build a smoke house. I can remember my grandparents talking about their smoke house, and how they grew up smoking their own meat. My grandparents grew up in large families, so they raised and grew all their food. I wish they were still around, I have so many questions, and I know they would have the answers. I miss sitting on the porch and listening to their stories. I hope you all enjoy the video as much as I do.StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-90643607897708797802015-07-08T19:35:00.001-04:002015-07-09T02:47:33.362-04:00Make Bologna in Your Own Kitchen<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7PQG-jI7O-8" width="480"></iframe>Tim Farmer youtube video on making your own bologna. Sounds like a good recipe and I would like to try it. I can remember my mamaw making souse or hog head cheese. Not big on it. Hope you enjoy this video.StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-63660468039204444152015-07-08T19:26:00.001-04:002015-07-09T02:47:48.878-04:00Canning 101 - The Basics for Beginners (Episode #217)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dbNNitnMuww" width="480"></iframe><br />
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<br />StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-66637223970950830162015-07-06T03:02:00.000-04:002015-07-06T03:02:01.485-04:00Canning and dehydrating time. I started getting my stuff out and cleaning it up, and ready to go for the garden stuff coming on. Looks like I will be canning green beans this coming week and probably green tomatoes. I haven't been able to get out in the garden much because of my knee I hurt over a week ago. I go Monday for an mri, and hopefully they find out what is going on. But anyway, I got the dehydrator out tonight and started dehydrating zuchinni.<br />
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I just thinly slice them and put on the dehydrating trays and started the dehydrator. I have seen where some people season their zucchini, I have never tried that before, but I think, I might try it on the next batch. Unless something happens, I will have a bunch of zucchini and summer squash. <br />
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Having a time keeping a momma deer and her baby out of the garden this year. She has her baby bedded down in the field in front of our garden. Guess she knew where to start staying, and they could eat good. Japanese beetles are awful this year. I can remember them when I was little and then seems like for a few years we never saw any and now they are back. They have just about ate the leaves off my beans. Between all the rain, and my knee injury, I haven't been able to get out and work in the garden, like I need to be. The weeds are taking over, as well. Always something on a farm. I'm always thankful with what we are blessed with and we always have plenty.<br />
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Fold in pineapple, nuts, cottage cheese, and whipped cream. Put in 13x 9 inch pan. Refrigerate till it sets up. Serve and enjoy.</div>
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StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-79054856266294346762015-07-03T14:02:00.000-04:002015-07-03T16:58:40.069-04:00My grandmother's Old time stack cake recipeNot sure where my mamaw got the recipe from but she would make her dried apple stack cakes from it. I remember papaw building her a drying stand outside. He took old tin roofing, four tree posts, and make it for her. He had two layers of the tin. She cut up apples and placed them on the tin and he built a fire underneath the tin. He made the stand pretty tall, well, it looked tall to me at the time. I was probably around 10 yrs old. I just remembered it gave the apples a different taste. A couple of years ago, I was up at my aunts house and she had this big glass jar full of some of the apples my grandparents had dehydrated. They probably were over 34 yrs old, she had me try one. Yes, I was brave and tried one. It tasted just like it did when they first dehydrated them. I was surprised. They had kept them in glass jars, with clear plastic over it, then a lid. No mold, or anything.<br />
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Sift dry ingredients together. Cream shortening, sugar, sorghum, eggs and milk together. Add flour mix until stiff. Put dough onto floured broad, small portions at a time, roll thin. Cut out with 10inch lid or pie pan. Bake 10 mins. or until golden tan. Put layers together with dried apples or applebutter. </div>
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StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-89828909737633908052015-06-30T19:42:00.002-04:002015-06-30T19:42:51.134-04:00Another trip to the hospitalI think we are keeping the hospital in business. Hannah had worked this morning till 11 am and she came back home. I had been up about all night with my knee hurting from the fall I took last week, trying to get our little cousin out of the barn when Hannah's market steer got loose. I had broke down and took a muscle relaxer to see if it would easy the pain some, so I could get a little sleep. After she got back from working, I laid back down and fell a sleep, next thing I know she is coming though the house crying and all upset, I think Cowboy( her barrel horse) just broke my nose, she said. I got up, half a sleep, and went to her, blood pouring from her nose, she is crying and shaking. I had to call my aunt and uncle to take us to the ER.<br />
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We get to the ER, sign in and they take her right back. They did a CT Scan and sure enough, her nose was broke in two places. Luckily she has no facial fractures but she is in pain and having trouble breathing though her nose. I am sure she will have plenty of bruising. They gave her some pain meds, and she will need to see an ENT doctor, to set her nose.<br />
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I think, it happened so fast, she really don't know what happen. But she was putting on the breast collar and she clipping it underneath and we figured when she bend down to clip the straps, he must have kicked at a fly or something and got her in the nose. If he would have kicked her from behind it probably would have been a lot worse. She a pretty tough cowgirl. This is the second time she has been kicked in the face by a horse. First time, she was around 2yrs old and baby horse(a small pony) kicked her, slight facture to the jawbone, four stitches to outside of her mouth and over 25 stitches on the inside of her mouth.<br />
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One thing living on farm and being around large animals, you have a chance of getting hurt. You never know what one might do. Cowboy is about 16 hands high, probably around 1200 or more lbs, and gentle as they come, but flies bothers him and kicks them. Big ole horseflies hurt when they bite. StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-16259633925621005112015-06-30T02:03:00.000-04:002015-06-30T02:07:02.391-04:00A simpler lifeOne of the things we are working on is getting back to a simpler life. We are always looking for ways to make life on the farm, simpler and easier to do. Farm work gets harder on us as we get older, but it is hard to just give up something you were raised up doing, hard to get it out of your blood. We enjoy living on a farm, it is hard work a times, but I couldn't imagine doing anything else with my life. My husband does work a full-time job and he does work out-of-town alot. When he is out-of-town working, leaves all the work up to the kids and me to do. <br />
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I look forward to the time when he is retired and we can enjoy the farm more. I would love for us to go back, to like things were when we was growing up. Wish our kids could experience it. I remember going to bed at night in the summer time, windows opened up, front door open with the just screen door. You could feel the nice cool air coming in and hear the frogs, and owls at night. So peaceful and relaxing. Just sitting on the front porch during a rain, and listening to it the hit the tin roof. We still get to enjoy that. Sitting on porch in the swing watching the rain. I miss the days my mamaw would spend all day baking pies, and the smell of them baking. She made the best pies. She always told me to learn to make pies, cause one day I would marry a man who loves pies. She was right, I did marry a man who loves pies, but he also loves cakes and cobblers too. I did learn to make pies, not as good as hers, but my hubby like them.<br />
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I hope I can share with you all our journey to living a more simpler farm life. I'm new to blogging, and I'm still trying to figure it all out. I would love to share recipes, canning, baking, sewing, farm work and animals and how we do these things with you all. <br />
<br />StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-36677606802797174582015-06-26T23:23:00.000-04:002015-06-26T23:23:09.446-04:00Black raspberry dumplins for dinner. My uncle brought me up some nice zuchinni from his garden today, and I thought fried zucchini would be good for dinner, then I remember about the big bowl full of black raspberries in the frig that our daughter had picked a couple of days ago. Then I thought, raspberry dumplins, fried zucchini, fried taters, cucumber and onions would make a really good dinner. When I make dumplins, I always make the fluffy kind, that is what our family likes the best. <div>
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StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-6443417349528025152015-06-25T01:38:00.000-04:002015-06-25T01:38:13.086-04:00injury on the farmI took a good hard fall today and I think I have messed my knee up. I'm in a lot of pain and can't bend it. I can get hurt the most on the farm. I don't know how many times the horses has stepped on my right foot, or the pigs. I have dropped pieces of firewood on my right foot several times. Of course, my husband, doesn't cut small pieces of wood for the wood burner(it is an outside burner) they are huge and sometimes all I can do to lift on them. I think, I need steel toe boots, when working with the animals and the firewood. <div>
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But back to the knee injury today. I had helped my daughter bath her 4h market steer and my husband had lead him back to the barn for us. I had my little cousin Maddi with me and he just tied the steer up in the barn. My husband had left to go get the chute and bring it back to the barn. The steer kept moving and jerking around, and I told Maddi, I said, Lets move closer to the entry and if he gets loose you run a fast as you can into the old barn. No sooner I told her that, he gets loose and starts jumping and kicking and I start running with her to get her out of the barn cause I didn't want her hurt. It was just like in a horror movie, you know when running from the killer, we both tripped in fell in the mud. It happened so fast, I didn't really know what happen, other than I was in a lot of pain. I looked up to make sure the steer wasn't coming out the gate to run over us. I got her up and moved her around to the side of the barn. I hurried and shut the gate on the barn entry and then went to the other end of the barn to shut those gates. I knew if he got out, he would have been a bear to catch and probably went through everyones gardens. Bad enough the evening before my daughter was in the barn and she had just got on her one horse she is working with, he spooked and reared up with her and she fell off and he took out the barn and right through my cousin's garden. Luckily she was okay and not hurt. She a pretty tough cowgirl. But anyway, by the time I got around to the other end of the barn, he had found some hay and was chowing down on it. </div>
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So here I am, covered in mud and can't hardly walk. Yeah, I am sure it was a funny sight to see. But it looks like a trip to the doctor tomorrow. I know she loves when I come in to see her. Last injury I had, I had messed my shoulder up helping a young buck out of a fence he had got trapped in. I was trying to pull him out, up a muddy embarkment, my feet slid out from underneath me and I fell. Already have a tear in my shoulder and have to go every so often for shots, My shoulder was already hurting and pulling on that deer didn't help. I couldn't get him and we ended up calling for help. We came back through he was gone so they must have gotten him out. </div>
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StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-86611388373958470342015-06-23T10:55:00.000-04:002015-06-23T10:55:08.803-04:00Talking to old timersOne thing I wish I had done was kept a journal growing up on how-to-do things. It was a lot easier for me to remember things when I was younger but the older I get, my memory, just isn't as good. I wish I had wrote down the stories I had heard from my grandparents, and some of my older neighbors, who are all gone now, but was full of knowledge and how to do things the old ways. I have decided that some of the old timers who are still around, I'm going to go talk to them and ask questions about things, I have even thought about going some nursing homes and talk to some of the residents and write down what they tell me. <br />
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Being raise on a farm by my grandparents, I learned a lot. Every year, we would follow the same schedule. Starting in March-November. I remember my grandmother would start her spring cleaning and everything got cleaned. She would open all the windows so the house could air out. On a warm sunny day, she would take all the mattress off the beds and set them out on the porch so the could air out as well. Windows were all washed down, inside and out. All the walls was washed down, light fixtures cleaned, floors scrubber, closets cleaned out, etc. <br />
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My papaw and uncle would start their burning off of the tobacco, getting them ready to sow tobacco seeds, then later on, having to go pull plants for setting. I can remember being little and following behind the setter and if they missed a spot, setting the plant in the ground for them. I always went barefoot, did for years, the ground would be so hot sometimes, but I loved the feel of the dirt between my toes, still do. I still go barefoot in the garden. Then came suckering time, cutting time, I never got to cut the tobacco, but I would help to get it in the barn, help strip it and bale it. Then in November my uncle and papaw would take it off to the market. I miss the days of working in tobacco, I miss being able to spent the time with my family talking and telling stories. You learned a lot more than just raising tobacco.<br />
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I remember my grandparents burning off the lettuce bed, and planting their garden. My grandmother canned everything. She hated to see anything go to waste in the garden. After the garden was planted, she would go through her canning, anything that was old or jars that had came open, she would empty her jars out and soak them in a big ole wash tub. Get them cleaned up and ready to go for that years canning.<br />
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I could go on and on, but I will save some stories for later on. If you have the time, find some old timers and talk to them, write down what you learn. So much more I want to learn about the old ways. I think, we are going to have to go back to some of the old ways. We need to learn while we can.StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-48066694579426324872015-06-22T07:41:00.001-04:002015-06-22T07:41:20.085-04:00Little update on the farm. Over the weekend, we added some guinea keets, turkey poults, and some ducks. We also have the pheasants and salmon favorelles chicks. The pheasants are growing and doing good. So far, they have been pretty easy to raise, course we have only had them a week now. We do have to keep the pheasants away from the chickens, cause they can get a disease called blackhead disease from chickens. All of my chickens are pretty healthy, so I'm not too worry about it. We do have them separate from chickens, and ducks. We also added, sebright bantams. I love little bannies. We have some eggs in the incubator, slowly but surely building our flock back up.<br />
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StoneAcresFarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726421210892393443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8922898761550757051.post-33779655026199903322015-06-21T13:33:00.000-04:002015-06-21T13:33:50.139-04:00Old BenI wanted to share the story of Old Ben and some pics of him. He had been on a farm for a while, he started out coming in the house to visit my grandparents. Their house was old and had crack and holes that old Ben could come up through in the house. We would find him in the bathroom and a couple of times on the curtain rod over the kitchen sink window. I'm sure he was looking for mice or rats. One of the problems of living on a farm and putting out feed, it brings in mice and rats. When I see harmless snakes, I let them go, that way they can help keep down the mice and rat population. We haven't seen old Ben the last couple of years, not sure if he is just hiding good or if he was killed or just died. We would see him a lot around the barn, all stretched out. <br />
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One day, I was over at the barn, and I found him enjoying one of my eggs. I like to leave the black snakes on the farm, I have always heard they would keep venomous snakes away. I have lived on the farm 44 years now, and I have never seen a venomous snake on the farm. I would like to keep it that way. I named him Old Ben after the black snake in Jesse Stuarts book Old Ben. If you have never read the book or any of Jesse Stuarts books, I would highly recommend reading his books. <br />
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