The Frugal Farm Living life deliberately

I have never actually taken the time to blog about all my run-ins with the neighborhood skunks. Usually it's a close call that leaves me breathless with a racing heart. And while we've seen skunks dozens of times, we've been lucky (?) enough to only have to deal with a direct hit twice.  read more »

5. People look at you crazy when you start talking about irrigation. Or cutting hay. Or barns. Need I go on?

4. You go to the county fair solely to look at the livestock--because you actually have a place to put it.

3. You know that real farmers laugh when they hear you live on five acres ("that's a backyard!" they say) yet your family refers to you as "the farm cousins."

2. Less concrete surrounding you means cooler temperatures in the summer.

1. Sometimes you get to drive a TRACTOR!

(do you have to ask? I drove the tractor last night!)

There are 4 baby foxes living across the street. They are camera shy and I haven't seen their mother around, but they hang out in the corner of my neighbor's yard all day long. They've been there for several days as far as I know.

Remember the Wall of Wild? This morning we saw FOUR baby foxes! They seem to be waiting for their mother to come back. They are camera-shy, though and I could only catch two of them. I will upload pictures later when I have some extra time.

edited to add: I uploaded one picture to my image gallery and a whole bunch to my Flickr account.

Have you ever seen such a thing? We had some water spraying out of the end of the new water line to the pasture overnight to prevent it from freezing.