Back at it

Hello again!

We are back at it this year, and things are going well so far. Here's the basics for this year:
2 Geese
3 pigs
4 turkeys
7 ducks
22 chickens and
1000 sq. ft. of garden.

We'll soon be selling the majority of the chickens, I only want to keep 6 or so. Also at least 4 of the ducklings.

The pigs this year came from our neighbor, Royal, and it was an interesting afternoon when I went to pick them up. We had my three in a crate and were just shooting the breeze when he asked me if I'd be willing to help him castrate all the little boars! Ended up being about two dozen of them. It was a lot of running around trying to catch the little boogers, but the most exciting moment was when the door to the shed we were in came bursting open and a 600lb mama sow came roaring in to see why here piglets were squealing so much! Royal yelled "Get out! NOW!" , but I was already halfway over the fence.

Garden is very full this year, looks like my first successful year at growing all of my tomatoes indoors from seed. Got some interesting heirloom melons from my friend Pat, one of them can grow as large as 22lbs, so that should be interesting.

Much more to come, just wanted to do a quick updte to let everyone know we are back "on the air"

Cheers,
Doug