Nancy and Karl sold a couple cows so they left yesterday to deliver them. They left us in charge of running the farm for the last couple days. We got the animals fed and today we did some more work on the chicken coop we’re building. The Falsters returned today. It’s sure good to have them back and in charge! Continue reading
This morning after a breakfast of garbanzo bean and coconut flour pancakes and home made sausage and raw milk at the house, Mark and I got the RV and car moved. We had to leave the car in the pasture with Folger (the horse). It was hard enough as it was to get the RV in behind the guest house and get it plugged in. Continue reading
Tonight we are staying in a cabin on Falster Farm (http://falsterfarm.com/). We had to leave our RV out on the road for the night. I’ll explain later. Continue reading
Last night we slept with the windows open all night, and this morning we kept hearing an occasional Thwok! sound. We figured out it was a bird trying to get in our window, but we couldn’t actually see him till we sat down for breakfast. He came right up and sat on our window ledge for probably half a minute or so, having a good look at us as though we were animals in the zoo. We said hello to him and he flew into the tree next to our window. Continue reading
Hunting season has begun. Continue reading
This morning I was doing inventory in the gift shop when I heard a noise. I looked back through the back room to the enclosed porch and saw a small bird inside, beating it’s wings against the window trying to get out. Continue reading
I used to think that black bird, raven and crow were all names for the same bird. Not so. Whereas crows make a sound like “Caw! Caw!”, ravens make a sound more like “Elk! Elk!” I guess that’s appropriate for this area. 😉
I didn’t get a chance to write about our trip to Fairbanks yesterday. Something really cool happened. As we were driving on a long, lonely stretch of the highway, Mark suddenly slowed down and said, “Look!” At the top of the incline we were climbing, right in the middle of the highway, stood a bull moose. Spottings of males are quite rare, as I’m coming to understand. As we slowly approached, he finally decided to turn and saunter off the highway. What a treat!