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The Mouse Hunter

Apr 16, 2007 | Homesteading Life, Pets

Although we’ve been trying to deny it, we have a small mouse problem here on the farm. Although we live in a small city (it’s more of a town really with a population of around 1000 people) and there are houses all around us, most of the farms are...

The fur family is coming!

Apr 15, 2007 | Pets

Alya did hear correctly underground – it’s true – her fur mommy and fur sister are coming over to play this afternoon. This will set off a cleaning frenzy around the house here in a few moments and likely again when they leave. Newf fur from 3...

Building the foundation

Apr 14, 2007 | Garden

As it turns out the process of building a foundation is not very difficult – it is tiring however and if given the choice to build another one ever, we will pass on it. Carrying 40kg bags of concrete on a hot day is not really fun – next time we go for the...

The foundation is definitely finished

Apr 14, 2007 | DIY, Garden

So, it seems we succeeded in building the foundation for the greenhouse. Checking it this morning it is straight, hardening perhaps a bit too fast, but looking great.As you can see from T’s quick post last night, it was a rough day yesterday. She was so tired...

No more 40 kilo bags of concrete

Apr 13, 2007 | DIY, Garden

The foundation is finished. The 35 – 25 kilo bags of concrete were not even remotely close to what we needed. Perhaps he meant to sell us 40 kilo bags instead…but we still would have needed more. After we were through the first 35, we had to take two more...