Lupin Farm ~ Updated photos of the goat pen in progress

[lupinfarm]

Today Kevin helped me out in the garden for a bit. We're putting in the new raised beds and setting everything up for the growing season that is very quickly approaching! We got the initial frame up for one of the pea trellis', both of these beds filled with soil with have trellis' on them for our peas. They're 2ft wide by 10ft long... That's A LOT of peas!

And just for fun, this afternoon we looked out the window to see the ducks ready for bed....

Can you spot the palomino horse?

 

[ksalvagno]

Wow, you were busy.

It is way too wet here to do anything outside but looking forward to when we can do something.

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Great stuff Lupin!! You have worked so hard in a short space of time.

Let's hope we all have a great summer this year. Lots of luck to you!


Hattie

 

[lorihadams]

That horse is Diiiiiiirrrrrrrrttttttttyyyyyy!


Got to love the spring thaw!

Those beds look really good!

 

[lupinfarm]

Sigh, I haven't checked the weather network in a couple days and just found out (after planting my peas!!!!!) that its going to snow and mixed-precip for the next two weeks! What?!?!?!


Sigh.

 

[kcsunshine]

Lupin Farm: I've got a baldy chicken just like that. Mine is supposed to be red sex link. I got 10 hens at the same time and didn't notice how ratty she was until I got her home. I thought she was just molting. She ended up losing feathers off the tops of her wings and her fluffy butt feathers and looked just terrible - all summer. Then her feathers started coming back in and looking good, except for her head. She's as bald as an egg. Now, there are a couple of others like her loosing head feathers too. But she's a good layer, so I'll keep her. Sure not one I'd like to show off, though.

Oh, we have had very little snow this winter, but tons of rain. Our garden is still too wet to work, but my husbands been making more raised beds to add to 2 really big long ones we already had (they've got garlic planted in them. We usually don't grow carrots, but we're going to try them this year in one of the shorter raised beds. We'll have to add some sand to our soil to make it work for carrots.

 

[lupinfarm]

Lupin Farm: I've got a baldy chicken just like that. Mine is supposed to be red sex link. I got 10 hens at the same time and didn't notice how ratty she was until I got her home. I thought she was just molting. She ended up losing feathers off the tops of her wings and her fluffy butt feathers and looked just terrible - all summer. Then her feathers started coming back in and looking good, except for her head. She's as bald as an egg. Now, there are a couple of others like her loosing head feathers too. But she's a good layer, so I'll keep her. Sure not one I'd like to show off, though.

Oh, we have had very little snow this winter, but tons of rain. Our garden is still too wet to work, but my husbands been making more raised beds to add to 2 really big long ones we already had (they've got garlic planted in them. We usually don't grow carrots, but we're going to try them this year in one of the shorter raised beds. We'll have to add some sand to our soil to make it work for carrots.

I have no idea whats up with Baldyhen, she is probably going to meet her maker. She doesn't lay well at all, although she lays enormous eggs. She's lost all the feathers on her head, and around her vent too. She's super ratty looking. And the EE's hate her, well... more like they ignore her. She spends most of the day wandering around cooing and free ranging by herself. I feel kind of bad for her, I rehomed her sisters earlier in February so she's the last of the original 15 hens we had.

We had a dry but super cold winter, 2 big snow falls, some rain, and we've had some rain recently too but even my horse pasture has thawed out enough to let the water drain into the soil rather than sit on top. My beds are good though, they were put in just last week so I've been controlling the water intake and since I use poly tunnels, it works out well. My pea beds are 2ft x 10ft long with plants on either side. I'm sposed to be doing SFGardening, but my peas are mass planted in two rows down either side of the bed... no 3" spacing, more like 1" spacing. It worked well in the plot garden last year.

 

[Dace]

Yay for gardens!

I love the pix.....it is so fun to see what it looks like where everyone lives

 

[lupinfarm]

Yay for gardens!

I love the pix.....it is so fun to see what it looks like where everyone lives

Hehe, I know... I love seeing photos of other peoples places. I have a slight obsession with barns and fencing, so I like to see what people have done with their barns and fencing LOL.

 

[lupinfarm]

We started pulling out things in the bathroom this week. I thought mum was insane. She pulled the toilet out last night to find that the floor was in awful condition. Mum actually pushed through the floorboards and left a hole!

So I suppose the hardwood flooring will be waiting a bit longer, and we'll be getting that luxury bathroom a bit earlier than expected And of course, here are some photos from today!


The hole in the floor..

Mum hard at working pulling up the last 60 years worth of flooring LOL..

And we found these under the 50 year old flooring There was also some sort of mortar from what obviously used to be a tiled floor. We think they used these to level the floor when they put down MDF type material (its like a fiber board, not asbestos) over it and then plywood in 1953.



This is an ad for the RCAF (our local one is in Trenton, Ontario... )

Another one from the same newspaper, this one is for Heinz Soups, look at that colour!

And we also found a Chatelaine magazine from the same time, 1953. The Chatelaine had some really delicious sounding recipes we're going to try, and also had a full page ad for the Singer Sewing Centres which mum was thinking of taking out and framing for her sewing room...

There are quite a few more newspapers and magazines under the floor we are trying to save. Obviously the woman who lived here was rather fashionable. Farmers wives didn't just buy Chatelaine, it has some recipes but a lot of the stuff is for the more fashionable woman.