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family homesteading sports fishing travel gardening woodworking food but not cooking
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thebigsweed
Proof of Brain
2025-02-12 18:09
POBphotocontest New Round: COLORFUL ~ where have the jackets gone?
With this week's contest being colorful my mind went in many directions. Colorful pictures are easy to find, but I wanted something a little unique. After contemplating what I was going to enter for the
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Feathered Friends
2025-02-11 16:41
A FIRST FOR ME ~ hand-feeding ~ SMAP ROUND 205
After watching a video I thought maybe I could pull this off. A gentleman in a video that I just recently watched was feeding Black-capped Chickadees from his hand. He made several key points that needed
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Feathered Friends
2025-02-06 17:45
I THOUGHT THEY WERE LONG GONE. Show Me A Photo Contest Round 204
For those of us who love seeing, listening, and learning about our feathered friends, entertainment abounds. During the winter months, we use our deck like a big bird feeder. After a while, the birds that
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HiveGarden
2025-02-03 18:33
Garden Journal Challenge of 2025 ~ FEBRUARY!
I'm not sure about the rest of you who are getting ready for this year's growing season, but we've yet to begin. With us headed to Florida, later this year than ever before, we've put most things on hold.
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Proof of Brain
2024-09-27 13:38
POBphotocontest ~ INSECTS/BUTTERFLIES
With this week's POBphotocontest contest being insects I thought I'd show you some pictures of the Swallowtail butterfly. When I first saw this splendid insect I thought that it was a Monarch butterfly,
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Silver Bloggers
2024-09-24 13:22
I'M NOT SURE I SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS!
I may have to edit my ACCOUNT PROFILE which reads like this, family, homesteading, sports, fishing, travel, gardening, woodworking, food but not cooking. A few weeks ago @farm-mom made some zucchini bread
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Feathered Friends
2024-09-05 14:26
Feathered Friends - Show Me A Photo Contest Round 182 ~ birds and sunflowers
One of @farm-mom's favorite flowers is sunflowers. It's hard to believe that these splendid giants start from a single seed like the one in this Goldfinch's mouth. At this time of the year, many of the
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Silver Bloggers
2024-09-04 12:54
AT LONG LAST I'VE FOUND THE ANSWER ~ FIRE
Over 25 years ago I built a basketball court at our farm. We would spend a good part of the summer at the farm and having a place for the kids to practice was essential. Hoops has always been a game that
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HiveGarden
2024-09-02 16:42
SEPTEMBER GARDEN JOURNAL ~ HARVESTING LOTS OF GOODIES
This year's garden has been a very successful one and the veggies keep coming. Before I get to showing you what we've got going on in our garden I must show you a vine that continues to grow even though
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HiveGarden
2024-08-28 15:03
SOIL, IT TAKES SOME DOING, BUT WELL WORTH THE EFFORT!
As the garden season winds down I'm already busy gathering all the stuff needed to make compost for next year's garden. Here's a list of some of what I add to the compost pile, egg shells, coffee grinds,
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Feathered Friends
2024-08-20 13:19
Feathered Friends - Show Me A Photo Contest Round 180
With this week's theme being common birds I decided to show you some pictures of some Mourning doves. Mourning Doves are among the few birds that stick around year-round. From the early morning hours until
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HiveGarden
2024-08-09 16:48
August Garden Journal ~ it has been a crazy year!
This update may be late for the August Challenge, but documenting what goes on here at the farm is my reason for staying active on #hive, so here we go. The weather this year has been one of the craziest
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Silver Bloggers
2024-07-30 11:59
WORTH SAVING ~ I hope it makes it!
This crabapple tree was planted twelve years ago. It is on the corner of our property and it's the first thing you see when you come to the stop sign. It catches the morning sun starting around 9 am, but
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Silver Bloggers
2024-07-24 13:05
There is Nothing like Hobbitizing with Family ~ CONSTRUCTION OF THE GARAGE
With our son Ryan coming to the farm to give me a hand on the 3rd of July, I decided to get started before his arrival. I planned to have the main support beams in place so that once he got here a lot
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Feathered Friends
2024-07-11 12:05
Feathered Friends - Show Me A Photo Contest Round 174
Robins, Robins everywhere, heck I even live with a Robin. This will be the second nest of Robins that I have spotted this year and it is the second time I've entered this theme in a #SMaP contest. The
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Silver Bloggers
2024-06-26 11:58
Hobbitizing with our Sons by my Side, will Make this a Special Build!
For the past year, I've been parking our tractor in the garage that was meant to house @farm-mom's car. Robin has been a good sport about the situation, but it's time to get her car back undercover. The
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Silver Bloggers
2024-06-23 13:03
Constructing a Black Cherry Live Edge Bench
Last year I had to take down a partially dead Black Cherry tree for fear that it would fall on the garage that I'll be building very soon. I was able to salvage a nice 6-foot bolt of the tree, thinking
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Proof of Brain
2024-06-21 10:12
POBphotocontest New Round: FRUIT ~ after 6 years we've got apples
With fruit being the topic for this week's #POBPhotocontest run by @friendlymoose I've got some apples to show you. This year, the Dwarf Apple tree that was planted in May of 2018 is finally loaded with
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Silver Bloggers
2024-06-10 13:07
POBphotocontest New Round: SUN
The following pictures were taken in June of 2023. These pictures are the originals, they have not been altered in any way.While visiting our daughter in Pennsylvania the smoke from those destructive fires
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HiveGarden
2024-06-07 16:46
June Garden Journal Challenge ~ off to a great start
I'm sure that all of you gardeners out there have been as busy as we have been this time of year. When the frost relinquishes the earth and the chance of a killing frost has subsided, it's game on. One
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