One fun thing we got out of preparing for this wedding, is a nice little outdoor theater ๐๐โค๏ธ Watched the new Twister with the kids and ate pizza...this was def an awesome way to end out our hectic last few months! I have never had a projector--these things are amazing ๐ฎ
Hope all of you have an amazing morning, and a Happy Tuesday!
Happy Monday! Hope you all have an awesome start to your week โค๏ธ We will be cleaning, recovering, and purging all these things from the ceremony this week, thank goodness! ๐
What do you have going on this week?
Happy Thursday everyone, and hope you're having a wonderful Pre-Friday! Today, tomorrow, and Saturday, our activity will slow in anticipation of our ceremony and everyone arriving in for it, so bear with us. This, however, is such an unexpected and delightful surprise! We are at the mercy of some amazing local farmers to help us mow our fields in exchange for a portion of the crop, and it has been at its peak for a couple of weeks now. We weren't sure whether we would get a cut before everyone got it, but these guys showed up right in time. We may just have a very pituresque looking pasture when we show people around this weekend! This is one of my favorite sights.... that white top is the covered portion of the tractor hidden by the hay (though its big, its not that big, we have a rolling pasture lol) ๐งก That symbolizes a couple of months worth of hay for our horses, cow, donkeys, and mule. And a collective sigh can be heard in our house today.
I think they gave up taking the trucks... these guys hooked a 30 foot chainsaw on this thing and swung it at the trees ๐
๐ Its all well and good til the power goes out ๐ #treeservice #Efficiency #worksmarternotharder #Oops
Good Morning! Don't be a goose, don't chose violence today ๐
Happy Monday everyone! These little impromtu meetings at the back of the tractor can only mean these birds haven't been fed yet and are plotting ๐
How do your animals tell you they're hungry?
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Happy Saturday everyone! Its that time again that we make delicious butter ๐ Last batch we made thyme and garlic, and it was delicious on the steaks we had โค๏ธ This time I am thinking about more flavors. What are your favorite butter additives?
#blackwillowfarm #butter #creamerycream #makingbutter #homesteadcreamery #flavor #fypใท
**This is a bit of a light rant. Feel free to skip if you don't want to read it. We will friendly post animals pics in a bit โค๏ธ๐**
Its weighing a little heavy on me so I do want to touch on a bit of social media etiquette. While I completely think its the perrogative of a person or page to add and unadd who they want to, for whatever reason they do, please respect the people you request to add you. As a page, we can search for you in our followers lists on our page, and see if you still have us added. While this may seem really unnecessary, as people add and unadd people all the time, if you specifically message me to add you, and you shortly unadd me, affecting my numbers, it really does make me feel a bit sad. I have added TONS of people who haven't added me back, more than double my current list of people, because I love their content. I can love your content too. If you make it strictly about increasing your numbers and not making creative content, or atleast something remotely relateable, I will absolutely unadd you.
Please show respect to content creators... whether they have 100s in their circle, or 100k. Most of us are just out here trying to be relateable and inspiring, and be inspired in return or maybe even just not feel alone, and I really question our post choices when we lose people in our circle. Obviously, this doesn't apply to those that just don't like what we post. Thats okay too. We care about all of you โค๏ธ
I'm just so deflated this am....
This morning we learned that the custom wedding dress we ordered for our wedding probably isn't coming. All morning we spent calling the bank, credit card company, and speaking with paypal in efforts to retrieve the money we spent in deposits and payments on the dress. We are trying to salvage what we can before the wedding, so maybe I'll be able to get something else in the time I have left before the day. It may take up to 60 days for half of the transaction to be returned, the other half we submitted all the correspondence between us, receipts and invoices, before we were ghosted on...
I can't say how disappointed I am. It's not even over the dress, though I was so excited to have such a beautiful dress tailor-made for me and we agreed it was something we could splurge on. Its also just another thing where we have committed to, fulfilled our side of the obligation, and were left hanging. It's been happening more and more recently. I think I'm going to go to Lowe's gardening center and get more things to beautify my yard because I really need some joy right now.
#selfcaresunday #riverside #reelsfypใท #therapeutic #stateparks #Virginia
March 15th-July 19th and he is as big as our fencing! Archimedes is definitely filling out well, and is so sweet and loving! The Mr. should be letting them out into the pasture in the next couple of days as we tie the last bit of fence in. I love this flex fencing, and how great it is for our blind mama, Sheila. Its also great as it doesn't encourage cribbing, and it lasts many, many years! That being said, look at this adorable little boy, coming for loving with his second mama! ๐ฅฐ
#gooselife #geese #embdengeese #blackwillowfarm #babies #minecraft #hrrrm ๐
#honeybadger #dontmesswithme #goslings #geese #Feisty
#africangoose #geese #fowlfarming #blackwillowfarm #babies #quack
Look at what we have! Aaaannnd, we may have picked up 5 more geese eggs to be on the safe side... ๐
๐คฆโโ๏ธ We have movement out of all three of the ones going so far, and another large batch of turkeys coming off rollers in 2 days ๐ค Loving all the babies birds to cuddle โค
How do you know you have a tom? Look at these guys posturing towards each other! Wings out, dragging the tips of their feathers along the ground, tail up, and cheat puffed out. It looks like we may have 4 or 5 out of this bunch that we got to replenish our Narangansetts and added Blue Slates. I wonder how many males we will hatch ๐ค
#maleseason #narangansetts #blueslateturkey #turkey #TurkeyFarming #farmlife #Virginia
Look at these Blue Sweede/Pekin crosses and tell me if their spots and stripes aren't cutest thing! We definitely have our hands full with all of these females, for ducks we found that the loud ones are typically a good indicator of being a female, and they're so vocal ๐
๐ They've loved having a bath, and are growing so big now โค
