Wow, I'm a blogger. I think. If this is the place where we talk about our own private Idaho then I am going to start. We were all raised on a hobby farm but back then we just referred to it as living in the country. Then years later someone started a magazine called Country Living when it became apparent to city dwellers everywhere that country living was something to be desired. My wife Pauline and I were both raised in the country and we decided early on that we wanted to have a house in the country. We almost made it with the first house we bought. We were only a few hundred yards from the edge of the city limits but on the wrong side. We had a small house on a sixth of an acre in a residential subdivision. We ended up stayiing there for 28 years. When we lost the house we had an opportunity to move to a 1 and a third acre on a county lot. This old house was built in 1940 or 41 and was the only farm house with a half mile or so at the time. We have been able to find a little history and we will add that stuff at a later time. That was almost 3 years ago and now we have added 6 fuit trees to the 3 that were already here and we also have 16 chickens and 14 turkeys not to mention the over 30 chickens in the freezer. Next year we want to add goats and maybe other small animals.
Below is a photo of the bare ground a few months after we moved in and started our garden in the space where there used to be a shed. You can see the old milk barn inthe back ground with the chicken coop and storage building on the left. This space is now full of fruit trees and we have started on building the grape trellis if we can actually get the grapes to grow.