Fair-View Farm Blog

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

A kennel expansion has been happening the past couple weeks: On Dec 9th the fencing was installed. Thankfully, the ground wasn't frozen very far down, so they could dig the post holes and the trench for the fence. Silas looking like a county worker- holding the shovel up...  But he was working too.  Good timing Midas! I wasn't trying to get her with her tongue out- she just stuck it out at the right (or wrong) time, depending on your perspective.  The completed fence- the gates were hung later. Since then Matt's been busy getting other things ready. Building dog houses  (and painting them) Installing stakes and chains.. Modifying dog boxes for the truck,  All this work for: 2 new huskies!! Meet Rocky and Drago!  Rocky is a friendly dog, who loves to come say "Hi!"  Drago is a bit more shy and didn't like the camera- I only took a couple pictures and then left h...

Happy First Day of Winter!  We are enjoying the mild weather after our cold snap over the weekend.  Exciting things are happening here at the farm!  Check back soon for the news:  But in the meantime you will have to wait patiently like this husky. Grace finished her first semester at the local tech school this past weekend! She did all online classes and for the most part enjoyed it. Now she has a nice long break before the second semester starts.  A few other pictures from today: Nate cut us a Christmas tree the other day. but it was too tall- so we cut some off the bottom and Grace fed the leftovers to the goats... they love it! an overflowing mouth of green goodness. I took this picture with the intent of getting the layers of snow on the bale.   A while back my great uncle told me about "leading lines" in photos- here in this picture the bales make good leading lines. Only one small problem... they don't...

Winter seems to be here to stay so now I can post these pictures I took at the end of November: I love this one!  Our Advent wreath: with homemade beeswax candles. We (the 3 of us girls) hadn't made candles before, so this was a bit of an experiment... for the first few days they burned pretty good, but lately they aren't burning quite as well. We're thinking that we should have used bigger wick for this size of jar.   Dad's new wheels! The truck he bought earlier this year, came with a snowplow that we didn't need, so a couple weeks ago he sold both truck and plow. After quite a bit of looking we finally found this one! Looks sharp doesn't it! :) He'll be farming in style now!  Laura took Ringo for a ride this morning. She got some over-sized stirrups this week so she can ride in her winter boots. Proud of the patience this girl has when working with Ringo- (a horse who wasn't broke when she started working with him.)...