| Hope everyone had a festive Halloween! October became super busy. Amy’s mom, Connie, fell and broke her ankle Sept 29th, had surgery Oct 1st, and was in rehab until Oct 23rd. Visiting her and making changes around the home were the priority! Enjoy what there is, because farm life always goes on! Amy | Table of Contents: Arts & Crafts Corner Livestock News Garden Report Woodland Adventures Other News Thank You! |
Arts & Crafts Corner
I’ve been dabbling into creating an online store. I have the domain name, but it’s all in flux for a bit. It’s going to start with high-quality stickers and go from there. My daughter may make some items to sell, and I might do more necklaces as well. If I ever get to the point I make herbal items, or other art I have in mind, it will all be there too. Right now things are super busy so launching has been on the back burner. It will happen though, just needs some attention put into it!
Shane also has some fun stuff for the fly fishermen out there, coming soon as well!
Stay tuned!
Livestock News
Lambing season is fast approaching! Need to start scheduling some barn cleaning time soon!
Ewes, rams and ewe lambs are plenty fat heading into winter. Hoping for lots of twins!
It’s time to start thinking about what you might want next Spring!
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We decided to find Miss Piggy a new home and sold her to a neighbor. She’s been named Skully by my neighbor’s grandson and is going to be a pet. We just didn’t have the time to deal with processing her and this was a MUCH better option for her.
We thinned out a few of the roosters in the flock recently so things are quite a bit quieter out there. Still have 6 roosters at least though. Waiting for them to get a little bigger then they will get thinned out even further!
Egg production has slowed, but we are still getting quite a few. There’s lots of new young hens out there so we should stay steady all winter hopefully.
Garden Report
The nights have been hovering close to freezing without actually hitting freezing. Still lots of green tomatoes on the plants! We harvested only a handful this month. I think it’s a bust haha.
Don’t forget!
I’ve compiled a list of planting dates for 2025 based on the moon phases:
2025 Planting Guide – Zones 7/8
Early November is a good time to plant Fava Beans and last chance for spring-flowering bulbs (such as tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, etc). Also prune roses & chrystathemums.
Mid-November deep mulch rhubarb & asparagus with straw and composted manure. Mulch around berries for winter protection. If not planting covercrops, mulch with leaves in garden beds.
This little frog was on the patio strawberry plants. I picked it up for a photo and it didn’t want to leave!
Woodland Adventures
Trail-cam visitors!
Our log camera caught some great footage this month!
Shane and I went for a couple small walks this month. Creek is starting to get some water but wasn’t flowing when I took these first pictures.
Woods Walk 10/21/25
Woods Walk 10/26/25
Other News
Fall is here!
We had a huge wind-storm on Saturday 10/25/25. My daughter took the first couple photos on our way home that afternoon just before the biggest winds caught up with us. Power went out only an hour later. I sat by oil lamp light at the dining room table and wrote thoughts in my notebook and read a little.
R.I.P Dexter.
My daughter’s cat, Dexter, has had a rough past couple months. He was fixed, but still remembered being a boy enough to fight anything that came onto his turf. He also liked to wander across the road into the plum thicket where who-knows-what could be lurking. Back in September something got ahold of him and he had a massive abscess on the top of his head as a result. It drained and he was healing up so things were looking much better. Then mid-October he came waltzing up to the patio with a new scrape between his ear and eye and another injury that couldn’t be fixed this time. We had no choice but to put him down. Heartbreaking!
I included some pictures from when we got him in April of 2019:
Mom Update.
I have to give a huge shout-out to my other half, Shane, for scrambling to build a beautiful ramp from our driveway up to our patio for my mother. He had to take time off work, bust his butt all day long for 4 days, just to pull this off. Mom’s stay in rehab for her broken ankle hit some snags as the facility wouldn’t take payments, forcing me to get her out 3 weeks before she’s even able to be weight bearing. She really needed to stay longer, but that was money we needed to build the ramp and buy her supplies for home care. I changed house layouts to make it easier to get her in and out with a wheelchair. A few things on the farm kinda had to be put on hold. I’m happy to have her home now though and Home Health should make things a little easier too I think.
Sorry for the mini-rant. It’s been tough!
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Sabina kitty says she will see you all again December 1st
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