Author Archives: Kelli Miller

My new niece, Little Miss Paige. 5 pounds and 13 ounces of perfection. She was ready to get on with it already and arrived a few weeks early.

Rafe playing guitar with Daddy. Rafe playing Daddy’s guitar.

The cattle are definitely Matt’s enterprise. The meat chickens and laying hens are definitely my enterprise. But the pigs are more of a gray area. When we’re talking about how much it’s going to cost to feed them as the … Continue reading →

Whitey Ford is looking mighty tasty, don’t you think? We have 3 whole steers that have not been spoken for yet! They are due to be butchered the 27th of this month, but if we don’t find takers for them … Continue reading →

Cleaning the chicken coop is about the last chore on my fall To Do List. Rafe came in to help when I was about done. I wore a handkerchief over my mouth to cut the dust, but I still ended … Continue reading →

This is the new area Matt put together for the gilts a couple of weeks ago. Sometimes the things we do around here in order to raise animals get to be very survivalist. This picture shows several strategies that I’ve … Continue reading →

Halloween brings treats not only for the kids but for the animals, too. Our pumpkin patch friends sent us home with a wagonful of leftover pumpkins to be enjoyed by the cows, calves and pigs. The girls have fun smashing … Continue reading →

They just get scarier every year. A witch. A pirate. And Napolean Dynamite’s girlfriend.

Rafe decided toilet paper rolls make good round bales of hay for his farm animals.

Argh! What is it with Blogger? I’ve been trying to post this for 8 days now! Sometimes digging potatoes, especially sweet potatoes, can become a bit of an archaeological exercise. They grow every which way but down. Or they grow … Continue reading →