Every fall we get cull sweet potatoes from a local farmer to feed to the hogs. What raw meat is to wolves, that’s what sweet potatoes are to hogs. Lisa tossed out about three or four 5 gallon buckets full to the feeder pigs this morning. Now, their lot looks like the carnage left after [...]
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Lately I’ve been feeling like Jacob in the Sarah Plain and Tall movie Skylark. I have been depressed with the dry weather. It’s been about three weeks since we’ve had any appreciable rain, and even that was a quick thunderstorm that didn’t even completely soak the ground under the plants. Not quite as desperate conditions [...] I’ve been growing tarragon for about three years now. Each year it mostly goes to waste. Since I’m the only one in our household that really cares for the flavor, I usually forget about it and it gets overgrown. I planted four new plants this spring for a grand total of six. They’re doing well [...] The phone rang about 6:30 this morning. Lisa picked up the phone, and my Dad was on the line. “They are? … They’re out? … Okay, we’ll get right to them….” Lisa’s voice rose with exasperation with each utterance. We ran to the window thinking Rose or Martha were halfway to Georgetown. Everyone was accounted for in their pens. Then we [...] About 1 pm on Thursday, 4/29 Ramble started breating heavy and wouldn’t let Lisa leave her alone. I had to leave to do some shopping and pick Roy up from school. By the time we returned around 3:40pm, Ramble had just pushed out the first piglet. It took her another hour and a half to [...] Someone brought to my attention recently that I’ve been letting down on blog duty. The perfectionist in me waits until the time is right to produce a masterpiece, but as John Fogerty sang, “Someday never comes.” So I need to work on keeping in tune with the everyday things and put together an entry or [...] I am an inveterate watcher and listener to weather forecasts. I always have been, but I tend to listen even more keenly now that I have to consider our livestock and crops. But yesterday I suffered a short bout of denial when the meteorologist said, “The Delmarva Peninsula will be under a Winter Storm Warning starting [...] With this morning’s rain, much of the snow that has coated our neighborhood is tranforming into slush, on its way back to the muck that gripped us for most of the fall. So, we’re back to square one. Getting to the goats is actually easy. We have to reconfigure the hogs quarters. We were going [...] Growing up, I loved our farm. I loved all the animals, crops, woods, and the lifestyle. Though I was expected to work on the farm, it was clear that I was expected to be something besides a farmer. And when I graduated from high school, I really didn’t want to be a farmer. I didn’t [...] Romeo’s Restaurant Menu Come enjoy the fragrance and scenic view of Swine Lake from my rooftop terrace. It’s a cud-chewer’s paradise.
If you’re an herbivore, you can come on in. Carnivores stay away…you might eat us. You can get anything at Romeo’s Restaurant.
Appetizers Pine needles Assorted leaves – choice of oak, willow, pine, and cedar
Tough, fresh grass Entrees Hay Wheat – whole [...] |
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