Around the Farm
Click on any of these pictures for a larger view.
"And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that
thou mayest eat and be satisfied."
Deuteronomy 11:15
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and
heat,
winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.
Genesis 8:22
There is very little that is more refreshing than taking the time to appreciate the beauty of the nature around us. The little tree in the background is a young walnut tree. It is already producing walnuts.
In the fall, the children gather walnuts and turn them in at a walnut collection center (usually a local feed store). They have often come home with $50-$75 from turning in their walnuts.
These collection centers will then sell the walnuts to a
nut company, which then processes them and packages them to sell in the
little bags we all see at the grocery store. Before we lived here, we
had no idea that the nuts we saw at the store might have
been gathered by little children picking up in their own
yards!
Our windmill has actually proved to be a
great indicator of weather changes. We
have gotten to where we can tell how the
weather will change by observing the direction and behavior of the windmill.
It will blow one way when it is blowing in
a storm and yet another when it is blowing in warm air.
What do farm kids do for fun? They make it! The boys like to climb to the top of the windmill and parachute rocks tied to a plastic bag, they make a kite out of a worn out tarp, they climb a walnut tree, they swing at homemade piñatas, they play in mud they've made to beat the heat of 100o days, they enjoy the simple life!
This is our adolescent peacock. Well actually, we think it's a female, a peahen. But......the males, peacocks, take up to 3 years to mature and show their plumage, so we don't know for sure. He/she (?) just showed up last summer! She wanders free-range around the farm. We've enjoyed our pea-bird so much that we purchased 4 pea-chicks from our local hatchery. They are several weeks old now and growing fast! Click on the picture for a larger image of this beautiful bird!
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