This Week at Ramsey Farms

For the Week Ending Sunday, September 28, 2014 - 

The weather this past week has been so different from the southeast Georgian summer heat and sun! I ain’t seen the sun shine in three damn days, to quote Cheryl Crowe. It’s been overcast, cloudy, rainy, stormy, and fairly cool! It’s perfect weather for our mushroom crop. Just kidding, we don’t have a mushroom crop but those little fun-guys (get it?!) are popping up all over the yard – like a magic little Smurf village built overnight! We’ve gotten nearly six inches of rain this month – almost double the “normal” September rainfall.

Our typical 90-100+++ degree days of Georgia summer have faded into daytime high temperatures ranging from 65 to 88 this past week. It’s been so refreshing outside watching the stars (when it isn’t raining) with cools in the low to mid 60s. Sadly though, it does seems pool season has come to an end!

Last Tuesday morning while washing dishes, I looked up and out the kitchen window to see two animals walking out of the woods soaked by the two-day rain storm. I asked Chief Farmhand Chris if he had special ordered any new friends – I swear these two dogs were just what we said we wanted – a black lab and a German shepherd blend. He went to investigate the visitors who seemed in healthy condition despite being soaked and very thin. The two canines appeared to be friendly enough and we cautiously introduced ourselves.

They are actually very ferocious dogs!

Carolina and Georgia have elected to stay here at Ramsey Farms as our security/farm dogs! When they stayed 24-hours, we then had to feed them. Chief Farmhand, Chris started building them a dog house after the 2^nd night. He hopes to finish the house early this week if the rain lets up.

This dog house construction curtailed the chicken coop development and I am so anxious to get my own birds – one of the very reasons I wanted to leave the suburbs and have a large parcel of land in the country of my very own! So for now I’m just reading books on chicken raising and pursuing the Farm Bulletin sales ads for poultry!

This week a quote came to mind (I think of you, Alysha T. when I read this quote). I have always been a big fan of the public library (or any private library for that matter)! Reading is a fundamental skill, passion, hobby, learning method, and escape mechanism. I've visited my new local library three or four times since we moved here eight weeks ago! We don't have a TV in our living room and our satellite internet can be sporadic, entertainment is made the old-fashioned way round here. Conversation, games, hobbies, and reading! I find myself wondering what my favorite characters are up to while I'm not reading or when the book is finished, I wish I could ask the author or characters questions about their lives and the story! Stretch your mind and read something interesting to you tonight! 

"Because for some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth." - Anne Lamott

A few great books I've recently enjoyed:

• Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs (I cannot wait to read more of her work! A forensic pathologist in North Carolina and Canada, she is the role model for and the executive producer of the forensic show, Bones.)
• A Walk on the Beach by Joan Anderson - a non-fiction book about life
• Circle of Quiet by Madeline L'Engle
• Your Money Map by Larry Burkett
• 116 Lighthouse Cove by Debbie Macomber

Be on the lookout, loyal blog readers! J I am going to start posting a “Recipe of the Week” that is QUICK & EASY and tested out here at our house! Maybe you’ll find a fast and easy meal to make for your family or find ways to simply replace the processed foods (canned and boxed goods) from your own recipes or just find a fun, new treat to share with your friends!

Also, don't forget to check out the Georgia garden pics!