The Boys Helped Me Pick The Last Of The Carrots Today
We had beautiful weather here, 15 degrees Celsius (59 F), so we took the opportunity to harvest. We've been pulling carrots for months now, anytime I have need em for dinner I just go straight out back. It's been great, yet I know we didn't plant enough to last us through winter. Hopefully next year. It's amazing how much our family eats, it really sinks in when you're growing it yourself and trying to prepare for winter.
@EddieBowes with the pitchfork, loosening the soil for Stryder and Kiedis to pull the carrots
Me, just enjoying taking photos, my work will come later haha!
Some were kind of small...
Plenty of these medium sized ones...
Eddie Took A Break To Catch Big Smokie
All the chickens are on the run because no one wants to be the unlucky one who gets "man snuggles"...
Mr. Pendock and James Bond
Well this carried on for a while, and no, Eddie couldn't catch Big Smokie but he tried hard and that's what matters lolol. The two little guys carried on working...
Stryder
There's the Haul!
Eddie was able to catch a door prize though haha, the easiest chicken to catch because of its injured wing from months ago, Peter Parker.
Peter Parker is still pretty young and moulting/growing feathers, yet it's easy to see he'll be one beautiful Rooster.
This poor old gal is moulting too, yet the missing feathers from her wing is not from that. She has the unlucky "privilege" of being Mr. Pendock's favourite...that's from being mated too often :(
My greenhouse has turned into the dustbath house for the winter months.
The boys were digging out tonnes of these wild carrots. The next photo really cracked us up. When we looked at this the first time, the boys and I laughed so hard we couldn't even breathe, the look on Kiedis' face is out of this world hilarious!! Eddie actually printed the photo and they made a frame out of paper for it and hung it on the wall hahhaha!!!
Definitely caption that!
Jimmy is not amused either...
Is there a hotline I can call for my out of control chicken addiction?
Carrots All Shiny And Clean
Added bonus the boys found some onion and a beet!
Today Was The Big Day!
Debbie came to pick up her 9 chicks. Mother Hen Grace finally kicked them out of her nest the other day, so they went to their loving new home tonight.
And I'd say this is a pretty great trade for the chicks, two gigantic spaghetti squash that Debbie grew.
The Round Up
It was actually pretty funny because chicks kept escaping and the boys were chasing after them all around the coop.
Bye little chicks, have fun living at Debbie's with her gang! We'll visit soon :)
Thanks for coming along with us on our day! I hope you all had a great one too, and a lovely upcoming Thanksgiving if you're in the USA!
There are some hilarious carrots coming out of the ground recently too babe.......
Could you eat this?
Or this?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lmfao
Absolutely! HAHAHAAA!!!!!!!!
Loooooooooool!!!! Soo many good laughs reading this @lyndsaybowes ... one of my favorite blogs yet! Thanks for cheering me up :)
Aww, thank you for finding our family humorous! I'm so glad we could make you smile, and probably @tremendospercy had an effect too with his well endowed carrot!
Hey Babe, where is the Dark Layer?
I assume she's off harnessing the dark side of the force 😂
You have a fantastic homestead babe, providing for your family the way you do is a lost art, you guys are awesome ❤️
Darth Layer is doing great, thanks for asking!! I was trying to get a pic of her for you yesterday but she wouldn't play nice for the camera...damn coont!!
I knew she was trouble the moment I saw her 😀
Those carrots look amazing..have you ever tried making cream of carrot soup...it is really tasty. The way that brood eats you need way more carrots. You have more chickens than carrots. I think maybe some of those chickens should go to Kijiji. Save the favorites. Rabbits multiply like that. but chickens..who knew. I can not find my question mark. That is the strangest look on Kiedis for sure..but how many people have no eyeballs and a large weed growing out of their nose. Cool you kept the picture. You can recapture that moment every single day.
No haven't tried to make that soup yet, though I don't think I'll use my precious carrots for that hahaha, maybe next year, we gotta grow at least twice as much...
Glad you got to see the picture hanging on the wall tonight, your expression was priceless!!
Kiedis' face is really amusing :D
Oooh thank you for liking it so much!!!! We laughed so hard, we are actually still laughing at it because the photo is on our kitchen wall, I'm looking at it right now HAHAA!!
i can imagine :D how does Kiedis feel about this attention to him? I hope he doesn't feel uncomfortable because of it ^^
HAHA noooo, he's the one laughing so much too. Usually he idolizes his big brother Eddie, and looks at Eddie only with adoring wonder. So it was pretty funny to see Kiedis be so disappointed in Eddie in this photo AHHAHAA!!!
oh... now i worry about Eddie... xD
just joking)) they seems like very smart and adorable young lads, and it's nice to see them having fun :)
Thank you @lyndsaybowes for restoring my faith in humanity.
Your post showed up in my feed at just the time I had begun giving up on our species.
Please keep on being you and raising good stock for future generations.
Hiii so good to see you @theblindsquirl!! I haven't seen you in my feed in what seems like ages!! <3 <3 <3 <3 Thanks for the support and the good vibes, sending a tonne of love our your way!!
@lyndsaybowes
And I thought that I was posting too many photos in a post.
Lesson learned. Thank you.
So much is easily known and understood by your posts.
And I think that a lot of it is because of your photos.
Back to the drawing boards for me.
Wait. I don't have any drawing boards. lol
You are leading the way for us on Steemit.
And I thank you for that.
Francis
I'm definitely always thinking I bore people with how much I put in a post, yet, if they want to scroll through it is possible because I don't write too much. I have enjoyed your two walks, and if you wanted to add extra photos and descriptions I would love that too! Be yourself, you're doing amazing !!
Thank you so much for your encouragement.
I want to do whatever I can to help us get Steemit to greatness.
And I am always learning. That is what I seek after for all of us.
I am committed to Steemit.
And you are never boring. Just the opposite.
Francis
Aw, you're such an Angel, thank you!!
Carrots are good for late autumn/fall cropping. We've still got a couple of beds of them left to harvest. They should last until Christmas but we will need more next year to go all the way through the winter.
We've had two frosts already but it hasn't affected the carrots.
I'm so glad you'll be enjoying your own carrots for a long time to come, we have to plant twice as many next year! I'm freezing some today once I cut them up, perfect for stews in the winter!
What a stunning day. Harvest time is always exciting. I am encouraged to see your advancement and what you learn. It is also a wonderful opportunity for your sons to value what goes into food production and dealing with the world around them. I commend you for that.
Seeing all them carrots made me thing of carrot cake....mmmm.
So when do we get to see you harvest the pot plants? Or is that done on a daily basis. :)
Omg I LOVE carrot cake!! Gonna have to whip one of em up soon. As for the mary jane hahhaa, next summer you will see!! Thanks for checking out our day Task!
You best not publicize that.
You mention carrot cake and I will be at your door and the mention of maryjane will bring @davedickeyyall running. :)
That sounds like one hell of a party, I'm in!!
Ill be the one dressed like the Pillsbury Dough boy bundled up like I am a tackling dummy for the NFL.
HAHA I would love to see that :)
LOVE THIS....Love the winter boots on one boy and shorts on the other. LOL, that is a wonderful shot of Mr. Bond That is postcard worthy. Thanks for sharing somewhere in Canada that it was warm today, short good times I remember those days seems back months ago now. LOL
The forecast is saying this is our only warm day for a while, and it's been quite cool up until today, so we'll take whatever we can get! I heard you all got snowed on recently eh?