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Cottontail Farm: Turtle trapping, jam making, chicken setting & a birthday party
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Life in rural Western Pennsylvania. Monday, August 1, 2016. Turtle trapping, jam making, chicken setting and a birthday party. Wow, that's an awesome post title. It was a whirlwind of a week. Here's what happened. There were about a dozen goats, a couple ponies and guinea hens keeping us company. There was even a tiny bridge over the pond that the goats ran across. This guy weighed 20 lbs. Canned two batches of preserves this week. That is not a "happy to know ya". Little man's birthday was this week....
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Cottontail Farm: Merry Christmas
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Life in rural Western Pennsylvania. Sunday, December 25, 2016. December 28, 2016 at 3:56 PM. Merry Christmas guys - hope you had a good one! December 28, 2016 at 10:08 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My pet rooster died. A changing of the gaurd. Canning citrus and egg review. Winter wonderland and book review. 2016 Winners and Losers. A seed order and winter squash jambalaya. Want to find something here? View my complete profile. There are things one simply cannot un-see….
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Cottontail Farm: The value of "junk"
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Life in rural Western Pennsylvania. Wednesday, June 15, 2016. The value of "junk". I was going about my little chores this morning, distributing water and feed, snuggling kittens ( ahem, socializing kittens). And it struck me how many things get repurposed around this place and how useful it can be to have a bit of what other people might call "junk"lying about the place. I am starting to really understand how old farms end up littered with it. Yep, that looks like crap. I'm not crazy. The value of junk.
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Cottontail Farm: Winter wonderland & book review
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Life in rural Western Pennsylvania. Tuesday, December 13, 2016. Winter wonderland and book review. Winter has come on with full force here. We got a foot of snow this weekend and now there's more coming down. Friday is supposed to be our first day without more snow. Nothing to do but stay in the house, read a book and roast a chicken. I read The Kitchen House. There's a sequel to this book and I might pick it up at some point. I don't know. December 14, 2016 at 1:28 AM. December 14, 2016 at 10:56 AM.
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Cottontail Farm: On loss, grief and hope
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Life in rural Western Pennsylvania. Tuesday, January 3, 2017. On loss, grief and hope. It's been a shit of of a time lately. I am just going to lay it all out there. I feel our loss harder this year than last. I am better understanding fully every day what I have lost, what my son lost, what my father lost in losing his mate. I had another miscarriage last month, a week after my birthday. To be certain, I have very much in my life to be thankful for. And hope this year is a better one. Loosing a grandfat...
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Cottontail Farm: Thank you
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Life in rural Western Pennsylvania. Thursday, January 5, 2017. A very heartfelt hug and thank you to everyone who took the time to comment to my last post and to those who have kept my family in their thoughts. The viewing, mass and cemetery service are done. I held myself together by staring at the ceiling until shots were fired during the military service at the cemetery; then I lost it. Isn't that the way with all of us? We only photograph the fancy stuff. Not who we really are. To thy hands we our so...
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Cottontail Farm: My seed inventory
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Life in rural Western Pennsylvania. Tuesday, November 1, 2016. Usually, this is done on a scrap of paper, but then I lose it (on purpose? And then buy too much. This is for my own record keeping so I'm sorry if the following doesn't make much sense. This is a huge pile. What a mess. Please keep in mind that some of these were free, some of them I paid as little as 3 cents a packet. I am free buy because I have little or none of. Peas/beans - snow peas, sugar snap peas, Hutterite soup bean, bush bean mix.
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Cottontail Farm: My pet rooster died. A changing of the gaurd.
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Life in rural Western Pennsylvania. Wednesday, December 28, 2016. My pet rooster died. A changing of the gaurd. Well, there you have it. And it was my fault. Christmas night we were at my parent's house celebrating with my father and my sister and her family. We got home really late. I forgot to close the coop door. I started across the property with the feed and water buckets and I saw something odd in the window of the chicken coop. What the hell? Anyone who knows me personally knows that this has been...
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Cottontail Farm: Growing, cooking new foods & Jamie Oliver
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Life in rural Western Pennsylvania. Tuesday, January 10, 2017. Growing, cooking new foods and Jamie Oliver. Feel like I've been in kind of a cooking rut the last couple of months. Winter produce around here is terrible so it's hard to get inspired without fresh vegetables from the garden everyday. I found myself cooking the same things over and over and over and it was just boring. I'm sure a lot of people can relate to this. No one complained but I was pretty sick of my own cooking. Again, quick. I ...
