Scenes from the small farm
One small paddock now fenced
Our place is 15 acres in Christiansburg, VA. It is small compared to the 300 acres at Tanbark Acres, 65 miles south. But I like it nonetheless. And it is hard enough to work 15 acres thank you! We’ve been putting up a barn and fencing the pastures for what seems like an eternity, and we have a long way to go. This weekend we were able to fence one small paddock. The larger part of that paddock is getting close to being finished as well. I put some pictures up on flickr.
As a side note, we’re using electrobraid – an electrifed rope – as the fencing material. I like it very much and am quite pleased with it. My only gripe is that there is a lot of electrical splicing because I have so much cross fencing (and therefore a lot of gates, and the wiring has to run in trenches under the gates and be spliced back in on the other side).
A few weeks ago we had a little picnic in the back pasture. I am using that area for hay and a lot of folks never see that area. It is really lovely though. So I took a little video and posted it below. It is rather long, but is quite peaceful.
Such a beautiful pasture. We have our granddog, Grace, with us today and when I played the video of you guys walking to the pasture for a picnic, she went nuts. She was looking at the video and barking up a storm! I can only conclude that she was saying “wow! look at that place! look at those happy dogs! take me there…please please PLEASE?”
BTW – still anticipating pictures of that HORRIBLE bush/tree/monster all cut down, so get on, you lazy bums.
also BTW – I loved seeing Emma off the leash – bet she slept well that night.
Kathryn,
Dawn and Dad cut down the monster bush/tree on Saturday. I promise to take pics this weekend. Your heart will sing. Emma is doing better every day. But she still cannot figure out how to unwind herself when she gets all wrapped around a post.
More blog entries coming….