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Tire Mountain Part 2!

Katrin BabbJanuary 10, 2026

The first slide is on! Between injuries, huge snowfalls, delayed tire deliveries, and frozen sand, getting to this stage took longer than we expected.  However, we got the tires stacked on top of each other and the slide attached!  Part 2 is […]

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A New Calf to Finish the Year

Katrin BabbDecember 31, 2025

Meet the newest addition to the herd.  Our little, kitchen-sink heifer. This amazing girl was born just a few hours before sundown on a night that we had negative degree temperatures, which is one of the reasons why we put the cattle […]

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Revisiting The Benefits of Deep Bedding

Katrin BabbDecember 18, 2025

After the ridiculous cold spell, this post felt like it needed revisiting.  Usually, deep bedding is something that you build up gradually.  When the temperatures suddenly took a nose dive two weeks ago, we were throwing the deep bedding together as quickly […]

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Meet Harry

Katrin BabbDecember 5, 2025

  Our black and white, blue-eyed buck.  His full name is Harry Potter because, you guessed it, he has a white mark on his forehead that resembles a lightning bolt.  He’s given us some pretty amazing babies!  

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New Life on the Farm

Katrin BabbNovember 20, 2025

Meet the newest addition of the farm.  This little heifer surprised us with a speedy arrival.  We left for a quick errand and returned forty minutes later to find this little girl up and nursing.  I made a point to check on […]

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Introducing New Chickens to the Flock

Katrin BabbNovember 13, 2025

Introducing new chickens, whether young or old, is always a nail biter.  The established flock want to make sure their dominance is known and, so, peck and chase the new additions like vicious meany-heads. This is considered normal and expected. BUT There […]

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Building Tire Mountain – Part 1

Katrin BabbNovember 6, 2025

It was always the plan to have an outdoor playset for our daughter to have fun on while we got outside work completed.  While most playsets are pre-designed, pre-cut, and boxed all ready to go with instructions to make everything that much […]

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The Chickens are Molting!

Katrin BabbOctober 30, 2025

Oh, no! The ground is covered in feathers!  Have we lost a chicken? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, … No.  But, wait!  There’s more. The chickens’ shiny plumage is thinning, Mr. Rooster has lost his magnificent tail feathers, and the egg […]

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Slap Bracelets for Bad Poison Ivy Rashes

Katrin BabbOctober 23, 2025

Leave it to a five-year-old to come up with this ingenious idea. Also, I feel I need to apologize for hardly posting in the last couple of weeks.  I ended up on the wrong side of a goat fight and my fibula […]

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Fertilizing Lemon Trees

Katrin BabbOctober 8, 2025

Oh, no! Leaves turning yellow? Hardly any, if any, flower buds? Your lemon tree might need a fertilizer boost. Lemon trees, in general, prefer slightly acidic and well drained soil.  One trick that I do is pour my left over coffee (black!  […]

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Katrin Babb

Katrin Babb

Mother, daughter, wife, and diabolical writer. When not going crazy with farm life, running around like a mad hatter taking care of my family, or scheming about the next scene to write, I'm finally taking some time to relax by training for the next triathlon/duathlon and mud run

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