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With this week's contest being colorful my mind went in many directions. Colorful pictures are easy to find, but I wanted something a little unique. After contemplating what I was going to enter for the

After watching a video I thought maybe I could pull this off. A gentleman in a video that I just recently watched was feeding Black-capped Chickadees from his hand. He made several key points that needed

For those of us who love seeing, listening, and learning about our feathered friends, entertainment abounds. During the winter months, we use our deck like a big bird feeder. After a while, the birds that

I'm not sure about the rest of you who are getting ready for this year's growing season, but we've yet to begin. With us headed to Florida, later this year than ever before, we've put most things on hold.

With this week's POBphotocontest contest being insects I thought I'd show you some pictures of the Swallowtail butterfly. When I first saw this splendid insect I thought that it was a Monarch butterfly,

I may have to edit my ACCOUNT PROFILE which reads like this, family, homesteading, sports, fishing, travel, gardening, woodworking, food but not cooking. A few weeks ago @farm-mom made some zucchini bread

One of @farm-mom's favorite flowers is sunflowers. It's hard to believe that these splendid giants start from a single seed like the one in this Goldfinch's mouth. At this time of the year, many of the

Over 25 years ago I built a basketball court at our farm. We would spend a good part of the summer at the farm and having a place for the kids to practice was essential. Hoops has always been a game that

This year's garden has been a very successful one and the veggies keep coming. Before I get to showing you what we've got going on in our garden I must show you a vine that continues to grow even though

As the garden season winds down I'm already busy gathering all the stuff needed to make compost for next year's garden. Here's a list of some of what I add to the compost pile, egg shells, coffee grinds,

With this week's theme being common birds I decided to show you some pictures of some Mourning doves. Mourning Doves are among the few birds that stick around year-round. From the early morning hours until

This update may be late for the August Challenge, but documenting what goes on here at the farm is my reason for staying active on #hive, so here we go. The weather this year has been one of the craziest

This crabapple tree was planted twelve years ago. It is on the corner of our property and it's the first thing you see when you come to the stop sign. It catches the morning sun starting around 9 am, but

With our son Ryan coming to the farm to give me a hand on the 3rd of July, I decided to get started before his arrival. I planned to have the main support beams in place so that once he got here a lot

Robins, Robins everywhere, heck I even live with a Robin. This will be the second nest of Robins that I have spotted this year and it is the second time I've entered this theme in a #SMaP contest. The

For the past year, I've been parking our tractor in the garage that was meant to house @farm-mom's car. Robin has been a good sport about the situation, but it's time to get her car back undercover. The

Last year I had to take down a partially dead Black Cherry tree for fear that it would fall on the garage that I'll be building very soon. I was able to salvage a nice 6-foot bolt of the tree, thinking

With fruit being the topic for this week's #POBPhotocontest run by @friendlymoose I've got some apples to show you. This year, the Dwarf Apple tree that was planted in May of 2018 is finally loaded with

The following pictures were taken in June of 2023. These pictures are the originals, they have not been altered in any way.While visiting our daughter in Pennsylvania the smoke from those destructive fires

I'm sure that all of you gardeners out there have been as busy as we have been this time of year. When the frost relinquishes the earth and the chance of a killing frost has subsided, it's game on. One