Behind the Scenes with Fresh Vintage Finds
If you follow me on Facebook then you know I’ve spent lots of time this summer working on finishing out the barn where I have my studio and shop. It’s where I keep most of my treasures and have all my barn sales. We’ve spent the summer concreting the floor, moving walls and making sure everything is ready for my next barn sale, which by the way is scheduled for this October. (Details coming soon.) In fact you’ve probably seen my tutorial on how I stained my new concrete floor after we finished all the concrete work.
But something I don’t show you enough of is all the silliness and hard work that goes into living on a farm. So here’s a post where we’ll go behind the scenes with Farm Fresh Vintage Finds
This…..
is a video of our duck “Speedy” and my son. They were having a race to see who could go the fastest…..
and then they decided they’d play hide and seek. Did you notice that Speedy tried to take a short cut under the wall to find my son? He’s a genius you know!
Living on a farm can be full of joy and excitement.
Like a new baby lamb to bottle feed.
Sometimes it even means Prince Charming is going to be seen driving down the road like this-
Or that I’m going to be doing this-
Or that…you guessed it….
my son is going to be driving the tractor too!
No matter what it always means we support each other and work together.
{Barkley the Basset Hound}
Even if that means catching a little nap while someone else gets the work done.
{Speedy the Duck and Flash the Basset Hound}
Sometimes it’s just about sitting on the front porch and talking through our daily struggles.
And then again there are those necessary naps.
No matter what it’s about coming together to support one another. It’s a wild ride every day and not what even in my wildest dreams I imagined I’d be doing. But in the end it’s a continual blessing of the unexpected.
beth…… half of the world is envious of your life and the other half are just mushrooms xx
It does look like fun but do know it is also hard work!!
aaahhh, Loved all the pics.. Speedy is so cute…so are the kids!
Can ducks live with chickens in their enclosure and coop? Just wondered, I’m feeling urge for a duck. Better to get a baby or older? Every year at the co-op they have baby ducks and baby chickens. We recently inherited 5 chickens from our daughters neighbor who live in a housing development but are moving to Denver, no chickens allowed. We’re quite enjoying the chickens,(they’re about 7 months old now) our dog likes them also. When we say it’s time to go out to visit the girls, he knows what we’re talking about. It’s quite interesting actually. One of chickens seems to really like our dog which is a black lab/border collie.
We’ve yet to let chickens out into yard but think we could lure them back into pen with their treats. The red chicken knows the pkg. already, as soon as she sees it she comes running. The treats are cracked corn with meal worms. We also give them watermelon rinds, they eat those down to skins. Hubs catches grass hoppers for them.
We also give them oyster shell granules, those critters are costing us some bucks. We’ve had 2 eggs laid now that are light aqua. Have you ever heard of that? We had one white egg but the shell was quite squishy so we threw it away. We have no idea which of them is laying the eggs. Any tips you’d like to share would be most welcome. I’ve always had a thing for animals and hubs was raised on farm in OK so guess it was inevitable. We also have a 12 yr. old orange striped cat that isn’t one bit interested in chickens. He comes over once in while when we’re out there with them, looks at them, walks away.
We only have 1/2 acre but are out in rural area. I went from being a city slicker to a country gal. We moved to 20 acres in MT from San Diego, then 1 1/2 acres in KY out in country, now here in western CO on only 1/2 acre but we’re two seniors so don’t need too much to take care of.
I enjoyed watching videos of duck and your son so much. Happy summer days
Hi JaneEllen,
Ducks can most certainly live with chickens. In fact our duck laid eggs and they kept getting stolen from the nest so we put them under one of my dads “setting hens” and she hatched all of them out. The only concern that I have would be that they need a good size water source to splash around in. You can use a small plastic pool when they’re small but it’s a mess to clean and they’ll eventually grow out of it. As far as the oyster shell, that will help them lay eggs. They need the minerals and love them!!!! It is expensive but once you start eating those eggs you’ll never turn back!
Thanks for sharing your sweet story with me!
Blessings,
Beth