<< More Shop Talk >> There was a time when such work meant grabbing the chainsaw, a fuel can and “the tool” and heading for the job site. This is also a good time to check chain tension.
Volunteer to help serve Christmas dinner at a homeless shelter. Pack a basket of food to prepare a traditional Christmas dinner and donate to a family in need. Investigate Yuletide customs from other countries.
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Count the number of breaths he takes in 15 seconds and multiply by four. It's easy to check livestock vital signs to ensure your animals stay healthy. Find someone to hold him still, tie him using his collar or halter and lead, and hold him against a...
Some of the things to consider are: Type. That accounts for a lot. Mom and Dad used to rescue horses, bring them back to health and adopt them out to new homes. Such a horse is called an easy keeper.
Attend free holiday performances. Last week, we talked about a few new holiday traditions you may not observe on your farm. Ask each guest to bring their favorite cookie recipe and a dozen cookies for each participant to take home, plus a few extra cookies...
Mom said Emily from Ozark Jewels gave him to her to be a pal for Hutch. That's how friendships begin. Every two hours Mom and Dad fed Hutch with a stomach tube (you can learn how to do it here ) They did that for four whole days! Three days after Hutch...
Light is also very important. Today, my mom treasures a scenic black and white sunset photo that Dad took at Haven Beach in NJ - a special memory of where they first met.All photographs were used with permission.
Reduce any large ‘leaves' to about half their size or less to reduce water loss and stress. Acacias have very hard seeds that can lie in the soil for a great many years. I planted one out this spring and the sapling on the right is one of the 6 in that...
Our farm flora includes pretty wildflowers like trillium and wild rose, edible herbs such as stinging nettle and dandelion, bird-luring thimbleberries and red huckleberries, towering Douglas fir and cottonwood, and many others.
To take an animal's vital signs requires a few tools: a reliable rectal thermometer Old-fashioned, shake-down, mercury thermometers designed especially for veterinary use have a ring on one end.
It's important for humans to stay hydrated, so carrying a bottle of cold along while doing chores is a really good thing. Or repeatedly soak the back of your neck and your shirt with the hose while you water your animals; our Mom does that most every...
Well, lots of veggie plants have edible leaves. In fact, each of us discards more than 200 pounds of edible food per year! Some of this is edible vegetable parts or parts of plants that the food industry tosses out because someone deemed them unfit or...
These cells give the pear its unique, grainy texture. Although the ovary wall is edible, its texture is a bit thick and dry. However, with pears, the ovary is not edible. Surrounding the numerous seeds is the ovary wall.
All-purpose milk replacers and calf replacers do not work well with lambs.” « More Mondays with Martok » Tags kid , lamb , Martok , Sue Weaver Mom uses a funny-looking thing called a Pritchard teat that screws onto empty soda-pop and water bottles.
Valued for its resistance to diseases such as black spot and rust it is endangered as a wild plant. One of the most popular patterns is Desert Rose created inby Frederick and Mary Grant in 1941 for the Gladding McBean pottery.
A previous article introduced the typical garrigue environment and plants as well as a water-color artist worth to meet. Today we will go for a second stroll in the same area and see what else we can discover.
Then add in and cook up a fresh set of diced vegetables and cook any noodles or grain separately. Here are a few tips: Barely cover the turkey bones with water and simmer for 2-3 hours with a couple of carrots, some celery, a bay leaf, an onion , some...
We direct our ears in the direction of a sound. Unless we're really tame goats, don't look directly into our faces, especially our eyes. Unless we're napping or focused on something else, it's almost impossible to sneak up on us goats.
In poorer countries this is done by swathing or bundling the stalks together and beating them in troughs manually. As many as 50, but usually less than a dozen secondary tillers sprout from the lowest nodes on the primary tiller.
But some babies begin drinking and eating as young as 2 weeks old, so it's good to have them in place from the start. And tell your veterinarian and county-extension agent, then they can call you if they hear of a baby up for grabs.
In disc flowers, these form a parachute for the mature daisy seed so it can be carried on the wind.In a single daisy, one row of ray flowers surrounds the disc. In other daisies, ray flowers do produce seeds.The single-seeded ovaries of daisies are called...
Although Britain soon forbade further importations, colonial Americans continued smuggling thousands of sheep. In 1519, part of Cortez's walking food supply was comprised of their descendants.
This is where the embryo sac is located. The flower's female parts are arranged so that certain chromosome cells, called gametes can be fertilized to start making seeds for more flowers.Gamete cells are the smallest parts of the female flower reproductive...
My oldest duck at 6 years, Velma had experienced the joys and frustrations of motherhood a number of times, so maybe she felt burnt out. After much persuasion on my part, Tica finally got a clue.
He was big but Mom and Shebaa got him out just fine. He's still connected to his placenta by his umbilical cord; blood courses into him for a minute or two, so it's important not to move him right away.
