Archive for 'Farm & Family'
Tractor!
Posted on18. Aug, 2010 by Kate.
Remember the many dog conversations in the movie UP! interrupted with, “Squirrel!” ? I laughed so hard because we have dogs and a plethora of squirrels here on the farm. Just the other day our dog jumped out of the back of a moving truck as my husband drove across the creek bridge. Why? There [...]
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Here a Chicken, There a Chicken, Everywhere a Chicken
Posted on11. Aug, 2010 by Kate.
Last night my husband asked, “Are you ever going to blog again?” So here I am. Blogging again. Perhaps this isn’t the best welcome back post for some, but this is our life. Last summer I blogged about processing chickens here with the title Chickens: Not for the Sqeamish. That title still applies. Take heed [...]
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Another Rainy Cattle Drive
Posted on30. Jun, 2010 by Kate.
GASP! Just coming up for air. Yes, I am here. It’s been insanely busy this summer. I’ve been taking pictures so I’ll try to get y’all caught up on summer life on the Ranch.
The cows were out of feed so it was time to move them to a fresh pasture. We all gathered and began [...]
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Spring Cleaning With the Family
Posted on07. Jun, 2010 by Kate.
Our string of six birthdays in eight weeks is over.
End of school year plays have been performed.
Advancement speeches have been made.
And now all the children are home with Mom. Time for spring cleaning. I envisioned all the cleaning taking the first week of summer break. We’ve begun week two and aren’t even halfway there yet, [...]
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Support The Narrows Project
Posted on28. May, 2010 by Kate.
This is our water. Once it melts we have no way of storing it. That means after the fourth of July, we can’t water our crops. How many of you stop watering your gardens or yards at the height of summer heat? Eighty years ago a plan was established to remedy this situation. A storage [...]
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Spring Pasture
Posted on22. May, 2010 by Kate.
It was a cold, blustery, rainy day. The cowgirls and cowboys saddled their horses amidst pelting rain and gusts of wind. I watched them leave, then stepped into my nice warm house. They herded the cows across sage brush and fields to their new spring pasture green with feed. I think the herd is pretty [...]
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Hoop House (Part 2)
Posted on10. May, 2010 by Kate.
Well, it took two more evenings to complete the hoop house. First Nate cut a couple of PVC pipes into two foot lengths and glued them to the other pipes making them longer.
Next, he removed the twine from the four posts
and replaced it with this.
Then we attached short lengths of twine to one row of [...]
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Hoop House Part 1
Posted on04. May, 2010 by Kate.
I blogged about the grow rack Nate built here. This is what our tomato and pepper starts looked like about two weeks ago. They’re bigger now. Originally, we had planned to transplant them into the hoop house in our garden on May 1. Mother Nature had different plans. We got part of the hoop house [...]
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Branding Calves
Posted on03. May, 2010 by Kate.
It’s that time of year again. The time when we separate the calves from the mama cows.
Nate feeds the cows up the chute
where others stand ready to receive the calf.
These cowboys close the chute and turn it on its side creating a work table.
These gals keep track of how many males and females come through [...]
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Day 5 Race to the Finish (Spring Break 2010)
Posted on09. Apr, 2010 by Kate.
Day 5
We spent our last day at Arches hiking the shorter hikes just off the road like Balanced Rock. Then we ended up at Sand Dune Arch. This is my favorite place at Arches and I was excited to introduce my children to it.
They caught on pretty quickly that this is a place to run [...]
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Day 4–Cold, Cold Day 4 (Spring Break 2010)
Posted on08. Apr, 2010 by Kate.
Cold, Cold Day 4
It poured rain all night while the wind blew so hard at times I thought the trailer would fall off it’s jacks. So what do you do when it’s cold and rainy? Get in the car and drive to La Sal.
Why La Sal? Fifteen years ago my husband and I honeymooned in [...]
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Day 3 (Spring Break 2010)
Posted on07. Apr, 2010 by Kate.
Day 3
Back to Arches we went. We started out at Devils’ Garden so we could see multiple arches along the way to our ultimate destination: Double O. We passed a man in shorts and sandals getting out of his car. No shirt. My two-year-old pointed and said, “Go bath huh Mom. Go bath.”
It was quite [...]
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Day 2 (Spring Break 2010)
Posted on06. Apr, 2010 by Kate.
Day 2
Tuesday morning we hiked to Delicate Arch. It turned out to be my five-year-old’s favorite hike. Kind of surprising since it’s one of the longest in the park. He hiked all the way in and out without complaint, and never lagged behind. He later told me he wished Delicate Arch was closer to our [...]
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I am the mother of five learning to live in the country surrounded by in-laws. I've been married to the amazing Nate Palmer for 15 years; he is teaching me how to be a farm girl in between chasing children, cooking dinner, and doing laundry. In my spare time (okay--time I try really hard to set aside), I like to write.
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." ~Pamela Vaull Starr°Click my About page for this year's goals.
