HZ Harvest

I went to our local feed store, San Miguel Flouring Mill & Feed, yesterday. We buy our chicken and pig food in bulk - huge reusable woven bags that they load onto the truck with a forklift. In order to know how much to charge us, I drove onto their truck scale and they weighed our truck. Then I returned to the scale after they loaded the bags and they reweighed the truck - the difference was the weight of the feed. I am so used to today's technology that I assumed it was an electronic scale. When I went into the office I was realized that they used the same scale that has been used for decades. I thought you might be interested so I took a picture of this beautiful piece of equipment. I love living in a small area. Our chickens are beginning to molt. This is a natural process that happens and they soon grow back the feathers that are lost. this chicken hasn't molted yet and she just looked like she had an attitude. They all are starting to slow down a bit on their laying but that will pick up again after molt. We have had beautiful evenings this week. The full moon is bright and the air is clear. The picture with the windmill and the full moon behind it came out really nice. Things at the Farm are going well. We still have LOTS of veggies so call us to make an appointment to pick some soon. The beds are getting ready for us to plant winter crops. The 17 oak trees we planted and the 32 sycamores are growing well. We have been refencing our back 300 acres. The fences probably haven't been utilized for the at least 40 years so we had to remove all the old fence. Then new metal posts were pounded into the ground and wooden posts were cemented in every 9 metal posts. After that is done, 4 strands of barbed wire are pulled tight and tied to each post. As soon as we are done, we will be able to open it up for our cattle. Remember, try to be as good today as your dog thinks you are.