Busy Busy
Wow, this was a busy weekend. Not busy in my usual sense of, “I missed my two-hour afternoon nap,” but seriously busy. I’m still looking for a weekend when I can do nothing but relax, but it looks...
View ArticleTrade Days in Plainville
Just a quick reminder that we’ll be selling pulled pork sandwiches tomorrow (Saturday) at the Trade Days at Stone’s Prairie Market in Plainville, with the proceeds going to the Barry Winners 4-H group....
View ArticlePike County Illinois Bow Hunting
Over the past decade or so, Pike County, Illinois, has become known nationwide for great whitetail deer hunting. The crops here grow deer the size of small cows, and the racks aren’t bad either. Due...
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Lent in a Tent
Lent starts tomorrow with Ash Wednesday — don’t forget to stock up on fish! — so here’s a cute story about a boy who decided to spend all of Lent in a tent. And here’s why Pepper won’t go anywhere near...
View ArticleAnother Small Farm
People in my family are pretty private, so I doubt I could ever get any of them to make a video promoting their farm. But if you wonder what the farm where we get our pork and milk and a lot of other...
View ArticleNew Chicks
Here’s a video I made this morning, after moving in our first shipment of new chicks. The light from the heat lamp kind of overwhelmed the camera, so the picture isn’t great, but you can see how big...
View ArticleBaby Chicks, Day 4
Here’s another video of the baby chicks, filmed early this morning. Not a whole lot to say in addition to the audio; I lifted the lights up so the camera could get a decent shot this time.
View ArticleChick Report, Day 15
I’ve been trying to get another video of the chicks for the past week, but every time I take one it’s too dark or too red. I finally got a good one by turning off the infrared heat lamps completely and...
View ArticleChick Report – Day 18
The second (and final) batch of chicks arrived yesterday morning, so here’s a video from this morning. These two breeds are Welsummer and Ameraucana. The older ones are Dark Cornish (for meat),...
View ArticleChick Report, Day 32
These are some videos I shot on Friday. I had planned to string them together into a single video before uploading to YouTube, but it turns out you can’t just concatenate MP4 files, and I didn’t want...
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