PHOTOS OF OUR NEW PROPERTY
Here are some photos of the property and where we're planning to put the house and barn. The first two were taken before we put in the driveway. At this time, the trailer was parked where we plan to build the house. ...
MAKING PLANS
We've been spending a lot of time planning our future house, and having a lot of fun with it. Tim (the computer expert) has been teaching me how to use Sketchup, and I've had fun being a bit of a computer geek the past few days. Sketchup is a 3D des ...
WEATHER IN PIKE TRAILS RANCHES
We installed our own weather station, broadcasting to Weather Underground. It's been fun to compare the weather at our new property to Wellington weather. We are SO looking forward to living in Guffey. Right now I'm sitting here in Wellington, ...
OUR MOUNTAIN GAITWAY
We've wanted to keep track of all that's been happening in our lives, and the changes we are making as we move to our Mountain Gaitway. Yes, I know I've misspelled "gateway". The change was prompted by our gaited horses...kind of a play on words. ...
THE ROAD AHEAD
We are now making plans to change our lifestyle by eliminating a great deal of our stuff, eventually selling our home and moving to the mountains. We are now in contract to purchase a lot near Guffey, Colorado, where we intend to build a small home ...
Ducks 2014
An update on our little flock...We now have four ducks, 3 Welsh Harlequins and 1 Pekin; they are three years old. After several months of getting "dud" eggs pretty consistently, we finally determined one of the Pekins was throwing the duds ...
Thar’s Voles in my Peppers!
See the trench going under the plant!I've been noticing underground trenches in my pepper bed, starting at one end and on through to the other end. The holes are about 1 1/2-2" in diameter, and go under the pepper plants, up again, down and up ...
Remembering the 2013 Garden
Obviously I have not taken the time to write about the 2013 garden. Because a few people do read this blog (thank you), I will put in some updates in case they are helpful to anyone. We learn new things each year as we try various new met ...
Deep Mulching 2013
After viewing the Back To Eden film, we decided to use this approach on all our garden beds. We've found a few places to attain free wood mulch, and covered all of our beds with 3-4 inches of wood mulch. Our results were both good, bad an ...
Tomatoes 2013
TOMATOES are always my most prized garden treat. This year I tried some new varieties and some old ones, and had mixed results. I'll outline my thoughts on each. I ended up with nine different varieties.One experiment: I've al ...