Day 198

1. The processing trailer all set up. We hosted/helped present a  class on how to processing your own chickens today through OSU. 
2. Laura from OSU talking about new regulations
3. Some table decorations
4. PIGS! (technically this should be old news as I got them on Saturday, but I haven't had a chance yet to blog about Saturday, so here they are!) Our new night time entertainment is watching them eat dinner.... and our morning one was watching them try and snooze in the sun. There's four of them, they all want to lie in a row, and no one wants to be on the end! So each one took turns realizing he was on the end, would get up walk around and then plop down on top of the middle two. Then a minute later, the next one would repeat the process. It was amusing.
5. What else? Spending the day getting ready for the class, giving a little farm tour, making ice cream  with Rebekah F (oh yes, they were visiting!) for afterwards, making watermelon lemonade (yum!), saying goodbye to Rebekah, having dinner with the class and teachers, cleaning up, farm chores, Jason and Ellen arriving (yay!). 

Day 180

:: The yummy buffet line at the Sheep OHSU extension class this afternoon at SuDan Farms.
:: Marguerite, the bantam hen, hatched a bunch of little chicks today. I forgot to count how many, but they are now happily settled into a wading pool in the garage. 

Day 171

1. Watching heifers move to fresh pasture at the Ralph Meyer Farm

2. What else? Uncle Roger and I attended an OSU Extension Small Farms Program: Raising Beef on Grass. It was well worth it! Gained some helpful tidbits about pasture maintenance and rotation, cows and enjoyed meeting new people! Ralph's wife and son also cooked us a delicious dinner.