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Farm Dogs, Turkeys, and Snakes…the Daily Farm Adventures {80}

Walking in High Cotton Posted on May 13, 2015 by JamieFebruary 28, 2022 2

Friends, this blog occasionally suffers from a thing called LIFE, and I’m sorry for that. But I’m back to share some of that LIFE with you, because ya just can’t make this stuff up and I hate for you to miss it if you don’t follow us on Facebook! {smile} Because sometimes we need DIY help. And sometimes we need recipe help. And sometimes we need organizing help. And sometimes we just need a dose of CRAZY to make our own life look normal again. {grin} The munchkins had a … Continue Reading…

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Bald Eagle Encounters…Bald Eagle Study Resources

Walking in High Cotton Posted on March 15, 2017 by JamieFebruary 28, 2022 4
Bald Eagle Encounters with a BIG list of (mostly FREE) Bald Eagle Study Resources. via Walking in High Cotton #homeschool #unitstudy #naturestudy

I’m out the door in the morning the same time the boys head to the end of the driveway to catch the school bus. When they get picked up, I head to work. So we’re all heading out the other day and the Cowboy comes racing back in, “Mom, where’s your phone?!” Between my laptop, purse, lunch bag, and coat, I had no idea. He stormed through the house, grabbed it and headed back out. We had a Bald Eagle. In the driveway. I dropped my pile of junk by … Continue Reading…

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Snakes, Bluebirds, and Dirt Bikes…the Daily Farm Adventures {129}

Walking in High Cotton Posted on May 19, 2021 by JamieMay 19, 2021  
Snakes, dirt bikes, and bluebirds...the daily farm adventures May 2021

The farm is busy with Spring, spring, spring these days! We’ve been working in the yard, starting the garden, and cleaning up the winter compost piles in the weekend sunshine lately. The tractor blew a hydraulic hose and was stuck in the field for a few days. The worst part was that Coal was right there at the fence line with me, opening the gates, and got sprayed too. He wasn’t hurt, but I don’t like using dish soap to wash the dogs that was the only way I knew … Continue Reading…

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How to Help Baby Birds That Fall Out of Their Nest

Walking in High Cotton Posted on May 4, 2018 by JamieMarch 30, 2020 2
How to help baby birds that fall out of their nest...3 simple steps from Walking in High Cotton

If you follow us on Facebook for Instagram, you probably saw we have a baby bird living in my flower pot at the moment. For the love of green-grass, there is ALWAYS a bird “thing” going on around here! {smile} Whether it’s rescuing turkeys or bluebirds in a shoebox or a swallow almost drowning in the water trough, sometimes it seems like there is a constant parade of little feathers through my living room. And don’t even get me started on the chickens…Thankfully I just got new planters for the front flowerbeds, … Continue Reading…

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How to Make a Paper Mache Shark for Shark Week

Walking in High Cotton Posted on July 27, 2018 by JamieMarch 30, 2020  

If you’ve been following us on Facebook, you’ve probably seen some of our Shark Week activities. We’re doing a summer unit study on Marine Biology (along with our unit on Archaeology) and Discovery Shark Week has been a great fit for some hands-on family fun learning! We’ve had some ocean-themed food, some shark games, and our big group project of building a paper mache shark! This is a very simple project with no special supplies needed. We had everything on hand already. I’ve shared it here in a lot of … Continue Reading…

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Sign of the Beaver…the Daily Farm Adventures {103}

Walking in High Cotton Posted on February 8, 2016 by JamieMarch 30, 2020  

No, not the book by Elizabeth George Speare (although we like that too!). I’m talking about the real thing. Brown. Wet. Big flat tail. Makes ponds where there should be no pond. Beavers. He was here… And here… We’ve got beaver problems at the tree farm. We’re not immediately ones to campaign against the local wildlife. We try to have a live-and-let-live philosophy. We only target wildlife that is specifically damaging our resources. For example, we know there’s coyotes around here–but none have ever bothered our stock, so we don’t mind sharing … Continue Reading…

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Dogs, Bugs, and Muddy Ponds…the Daily Farm Adventures {91}

Walking in High Cotton Posted on July 31, 2015 by JamieMarch 30, 2020  

How do farm kids and farm dogs spend the hot, dirty Virginia summers? Playing outside getting hotter and dirtier! {smile} When I finally got tired of this… And this… And this… We headed out for a walk. I needed a break by then anyway. Cleaning floors in our house is almost more futile than doing laundry or dishes. I don’t even get a one day reprieve. {sigh} So I took a break to get some fresh air with the dogs. Along the way we made sure to get pictures of this… And … Continue Reading…

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Digging Dogs, Biting Mice…the Daily Farm Adventures {98}

Walking in High Cotton Posted on January 15, 2016 by JamieMarch 30, 2020 1
Farm girls are brave...digging dogs and biting mice...the Daily Farm Adventures at Walking in High Cotton

I see the early side of 5:30am a lot during the week. It’s not my favorite time of day. And I firmly believe that if you have to get up while it’s still dark outside that coffee is mandatory. No one else around here–2- or 4-footed–feels the same. So when the Ladybug burst into the house from chores in tears the other day at 6:30 in the morning, my first thought was “Dear Lord, there’s not enough coffee in the world for this job,  but could I please get just. … Continue Reading…

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Always A Bird Thing Going On…the Daily Farm Adventures {67}

Walking in High Cotton Posted on September 22, 2014 by JamieMarch 30, 2020 2
We rescued a barn swallow from the sheep water trough this weekend. It's always something around here! {smile} via www.walkinginhighcotton.net #farmadventures

I’m not sure what it is about our kiddos, but they seem to be a magnet for hard-luck cases. Remember the Ladybug’s little bird adventure over the summer? And then there’s the case of the crazy, snuggling chicken (who is still living hale and hearty in the backyard). Well, now the Cowboy (who’s been inside most of the weekend struggling on and off with stomach issues) comes out of the house for ONE MINUTE Saturday evening to check on me working sheep alone–apparently the’re not sure I can handle anything … Continue Reading…

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The Night-Stalker…the Daily Farm Adventures {66}

Walking in High Cotton Posted on September 19, 2014 by JamieMarch 30, 2020  

Well, I posted on Monday asking how everyone felt about pictures here on the blog–do you mind my sometimes blurry, sometimes grainy, sometimes shady pictures? Or would you prefer for me to find only good photography to share (which would probably not be my own!!). All the comments and emails I got were “yes, we like your pictures!” so here’s some more! {smile} I mentioned on Monday that we’ve got an owl in the neighborhood that seems to have made himself quite comfortable and is settling in. Well, he’s taken … Continue Reading…

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Wild Turkey Nursery…the Daily Farm Adventures {60}

Walking in High Cotton Posted on August 8, 2014 by JamieMarch 30, 2020  

W have a lot of wild turkey in our area, and managing our field and wood edges carefully encourages them to stick around. We have a local flock that raises two batches of poults a year on the farm. You’ll see a couple hens out there with a passel of babies wandering through the tall grass every morning and evening. The fences and equipment don’t make them nervous. The sheep don’t make them nervous. The cows don’t bother them. The chickens don’t bother them. They just come and go as … Continue Reading…

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Canadian Visitors…the Daily Farm Adventures {64}

Walking in High Cotton Posted on September 12, 2014 by JamieMarch 30, 2020 3
We have a new bird of prey moving into the neighborhood and I'm a little nervous. I think he's eyeing my chickens! {www.walkinginhighcotton.net} #naturestudy #owls #homestead

We have some new visitors in the neighborhood. A flock of Canadian geese has taken up residence in our big front field every morning for the last two weeks or so. I’m a little frustrated that most of my pictures are either far away or of them moving away. They don’t get “scared” when we’re around, they just turn and mosey off across the field and all I get are pictures of their tails. It sounds very Fall-ish as they honk on their fly-overs. As usual, everyone else on the farm … Continue Reading…

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Being Outside at the Tree Farm All Day…the Daily Farm Adventures {120}

Walking in High Cotton Posted on January 30, 2017 by JamieMarch 30, 2020  

We were outside all day on Saturday, doing some extended yard clean up at the tree farm and taking a family hike. Mr. Fix-It’s father, sister, and family were visiting for the day as well. It surprised me how much the kiddos have grown. I didn’t pack a ton of snacks, no changes of clothes, no extra hat and gloves…of course, we were right around the corner from home! But it’s amazing to think how far along this parenting continuum we’ve come. They each had a bottle of water, an apple, and … Continue Reading…

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Farm Dogs and Egg-Eating Skunks…the Daily Farm Adventures {56}

Walking in High Cotton Posted on July 14, 2014 by JamieMarch 30, 2020 4

The Cowboy and I were up doing the chores a few weeks ago with the slowly fading odor of skunk whiffing on the humid morning breeze in the feed shed. Other than a quick look around, I didn’t think much of it. We know they’re around. Every month or so, some woodland creature gets too bold or some brave four-footed soul things he can take on a car and the stink will drift around the fields for a few days. {shrug} On to the work at hand. A few days later we’re … Continue Reading…

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On the Trail of the Beaver, Part 1…the Daily Farm Adventures {111}

Walking in High Cotton Posted on April 18, 2016 by JamieMarch 30, 2020  

You might think that tree farming is about the easiest farming there is. I did at first. I mean, you’re growing pine trees, and surely they don’t need much supervising…right? Wrong. For crying out loud, sometimes it feels like growing those trees takes more work than raising our human children! {smile} You have to cut, mow, burn, plant, pray for rain…mow, cut, thin, spray…and then the predators…rabbits, mice, rats, voles, disease…apparently everything that doesn’t eat meat loves to eat trees! And now beavers. I wrote before that we’ve found some beaver damage … Continue Reading…

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