It’s sunny out today and we’re out getting yet more firewood. Hey, if it’s available and the weather’s nice, why not? Better to have too much than too little. Right? We have two smaller sheds, which used to be our farrowing houses for our pigs. When the price of corn doubled, we sold our herd of pigs, and the houses were standing empty. Will brought them up by the storage barn and now they’re our overflow woodsheds. Perfect.
We had a bit of bad luck recently. Coyotes chewed a hole in the OSB, covering the pallet fence on one side of the duck yard and got in. They carried off three ducks and left the others terrified. My knees had been real sore, and I neglected to put them in at night. That goes to show you, critters are smarter than me! So, the next night, I shut them in. But the coyotes actually opened the duck door and took three more! That’s it! We still had three ducks left and I had David catch them and put them in the goat barn’s big stall. And we set a trap, right under the chewed hole. Enough is enough!
It’s been a couple of weeks now and we haven’t had coyotes in the duck yard. Or in the trap. But I’m leaving it in place, just in case. I’m pretty mad at those coyotes! (Yep, I know it was coyotes as the hole wasn’t big enough for wolves and there were tracks in the mud.) When you live way in the woods, sooner or later, something will get in and eat something. It just happens. We’d just as soon it didn’t!
Son, Bill, got a real big buck on opening weekend and grandson, Mason, added a nice doe to the family meat supply. They’ll be processing and canning venison for quite a while. Good job, guys!
The beets are still in the crate as I’m gearing up for our early Thanksgiving family get-together on Sunday. My house was a pigpen, full of seeds, bean pods, and assorted bark and tracked in whatever. My priority shifted from beets to house cleaning. Luckily, beets store very well. — Jackie
