Rolling Acres - This and That
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RollingAcres
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The chicks arrived today. All 5 of them made it here alive. 
Mike CHS
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Chicks are way up there on the cuteness scale.
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RollingAcres
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And ducklings and puppies.
Especially puppies! 
oh, and baby goats!
oh, and baby goats!
Wehner Homestead
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Puppies, chicks, ducklings, goat kids, calves!
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RollingAcres
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Nothing new to report, just wanted to post some pics I took yesterday.
Picked some tomatoes so I have some canning to do this weekend.
Looks like this tomato has a "beak" lol
And some pics of the cattle. Took them when I went to fill the trough.
The evening sky
Picked some tomatoes so I have some canning to do this weekend.
Looks like this tomato has a "beak" lol
And some pics of the cattle. Took them when I went to fill the trough.
The evening sky
Donna R. Raybon
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Nothing cuter than a happy pot belly piglet snuggled with her own personal LGD. George and Rita! She is asleep, softly snoring. George is 7 yo GP/Anatolian.
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RollingAcres
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That is adorable!
Donna R. Raybon
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Corn for eating needs to be full kernel, but not hard/starchy. That can be very small window of time on varieties that are not primarily sweet, eating variety. But, back in the day we ate corn on cob any variety we could catch in tender milky stage. Papaw's commercial corn for cow feed, the neighbor's Indian corn, we ate it! Let it ripen and stand until totally dry for stock feed or for cornmeal and hominy. As long as it is standing rain will not hurt it.
My grandmother, born late 1890s, said folks would run out of meal by this time of year. Corn was not ready for harvest, but you could find mature enough ears to grate and make meal. It was still high in moisture and would not keep, but made good corn bread. Said they used a piece of tin with multiple nail hole as homemade grater. Corn, apples, chestnuts and a hog were often all between you and starving come winter. She was +94 when she passed and would still get teary telling about loss of American Chestnut.
My grandmother, born late 1890s, said folks would run out of meal by this time of year. Corn was not ready for harvest, but you could find mature enough ears to grate and make meal. It was still high in moisture and would not keep, but made good corn bread. Said they used a piece of tin with multiple nail hole as homemade grater. Corn, apples, chestnuts and a hog were often all between you and starving come winter. She was +94 when she passed and would still get teary telling about loss of American Chestnut.
