My quest in creating and posting one block a day of the fabulous That Town And Country Quilt by the lovely Susan Claire. For a gallery index showing every block in the quilt in chronological order, click here.
Looks like Sacks of grain to feed the stock. Probably oats or sweet mix for the horses, corn for the sheep and blends for the pigs. Our little friend here is the last thing anyone wants to see in their granary. Mice can eat a lot of grain.
Shawna and Jim moved in to help with the horse ranch when Joy passed, and since then two sweet girls and one feisty little boy have joined the family. The arrangement has worked out well and life has gone on happily in this very old house.
The American windmill was invented by Daniel Halladay in 1854. Windmills were used by the colonists to pump water, grind grain, and cut wood in sawmills. They are still used in agriculture to pump water in areas where electricity is unavailable.
We carry local honey in my shop and on the farm. I know it’s local because some of the hives are in my hay fields. I have known the man who founded the company since he was a little kid. He was a great kid and now he’s a great guy and super beekeeper.
Before I regale you with honey facts let me say that modern beehives that are kept by beekeepers do not look like this charming version. They are an efficient boxy structure that the bees seem to like just fine. But this one is cuter so we are going with it.
At my house, there is always a block at the bottom of the post where the gate closes to set the gate on so it doesn’t sag. This looks like a sturdy gate and one I would have liked to swing on when I was a girl until I got caught and scolded for “trying to make that gate sag!”
It doesn’t have power steering or power brakes and just nearly bounces the sense out of you when you have to use it. We use it to spread manure and drag fields now. I will be really sad when his time is over on the farm.
She would turn her tail and go home. Scott would be so mad, he’d follow her back to the house and carry her back to the field. They’d begin again only to repeat this performance several more times a day. She finally won. He stopped cursing at her.
They prefer to be solitary when they are not raising young. If you have a fox den very close to you, you will probably know because foxes are smelly! They are also very playful, they have been known to steal golf balls from golf courses to play with them.
Coyotes are a very vocal branch of the canine family tree. Territorial, they mark their territory with urine. They mate for life and when pups are in the den both male and female care for the young.