Why We Love the Farm

Here are some random pictures . . . enjoy . . .

The Vulture

As promised, the baby vulture born in one of the barns. Is this what is meant by "so ugly its cute"???

Clearing the Land

We are continuing to clear the pasture. Here's some befores, durings, and afters.

It's Been Awhile

Sorry it's been awhile since our last blog update. We've been up to Harrisburg, PA for our niece Jehnna's graduation and a wonderful visit with Den & Deb and family!

So, what's new at the farm? We have plums (yellow) and blackberries!

We have baby birds! This is the second round of sparrows . . . .

. . .and the wrens are just leaving their nest (built in a stack of our tiki torches). . .

. . . and the baby vulture is trying to decide the best time to try flight! (will include a picture in the nest blog post)

Dad and Mom bought us the skid steer (Cat) you saw Pete "trialing" in the last blog post. Not to be outdone, the women had to try - "anything you can do we can do . . . . . . better????? . . . . . ok in this case we'll stop at can do."

(this is our friend Kathy who came and helped us this weekend)

and speaking of help . . .

We just got a call from brother David. He's in Atlanta and is planning to come up for a few days to help Pete!

We'll try to get a second blog post out this week - but that's it for now.

Pete & Debby

New Toys

In our last post we showed a picture of Debby's new toy - a yard tractor.


Here are two new Pete toys (well one is our's and one is likely soon to be our's).



First is a trailer. Pete has hauled the kitchen items from Florida that David and Priscilla gave us. We made 3 trips to the dump yesterday. And we've started moving some stored items to the farm from our home in Columbia. "You've got to have a trailer if you live on a farm" says Farmer Pete!

A Gift from David & Priscilla

Sorry it's been so long since the last update -there's been a lot of behind the scenes work going on about the farm, not necessarily at the farm.

Pete has to get a contractor's bid on building the house and then as long as he [Pete] is the lowest bidder, the bank will allow him to be the contractor/builder. . . we think we can make that happen ;>}

Brother Sam sent a laser level and Pete rough surveyed for the planned home site. As soon as the building loan is secured, we'll have a professional surveyor site the property. At this point, estimate for "breaking ground" is the end of June!

Check out our farmhouse kitchen! Pete spent a few days last week at brother David and Priscilla's home in Florida. They graciously gave us the refrigerator, double oven, a microwave as well as a dishwasher! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! And if that's not enough . . .

Making Mulch

Another weekend at the farm. To start, here are a couple pictures of the wood and metal roofing Pete was able to salvage from taking down one of the pole barns.















Now, this weekend's projects . . . .