#Farm chores

[gramarobin]

Headed out to use snowblower now. Thankfully its like a walker with snow blowing on the front as I couldnt do it otherwise. I just hang on and move slowly forward. Love it💙😃

#snow blower #country life #snow #michigan life #michigander #farm chores

[gargelyfloof118]

Snow is deeper. Air is colder. Animals still need fed. Hubs and I bundled up and headed out.

Pro tip: if you didn't know before, please be advised that cloth masks are fantastic for keeping warm, humid air around your nose and mouth. I did not do this yesterday and was in a coughing/vomiting fit by the time I made it to the horse barn. It is SIGNIFICANTLY colder today. I put a mask on. I made it to the horses, fed them, and made it back to the house with barely any discomfort. So yeah, use a mask in cold weather.

Horses were fed and warmer blankets put on. (We add some hot water to their feed to soak it and give them some warm liquid for their bellies. They love feeding time!)

Seamus would like seconds, please.

The chickens water was frozen. Thankfully, I brought some hot water for them as well. I moved the waterer under the heat lamp and poured the hot water in the base. Hopefully, that helps for now. I'm planning on bringing a dish and some warm water later. But would like to research what would be best first.

The birds are quite happy to stay inside for the time being.

#homestead #farm #chicken coop #chicks chicks chicks #horse #horse barn #snow #snow 2024 #farm chores #im really hoping all my animals stay warm #this is the first winter #we definitely are learning a lot #trial by fire or.. snow.. #of course it had to be a rough one

[sayhowdycountrycritters]

Although chickens are very enthusiastic, they just aren’t much help around the farm when it comes to loading or stacking hay bales.

#farm life #rural life #chickens #hay #farm chores

[shireland-farm]

Some fresh pine shavings make all the difference.

#shirelandfarm #homestead #farm #homesteading #farmlife #farmcore #nest #nesting #nesting boxes #egg laying #laying hens #chicken nest #farm chores #chores

[avalencias]

home can be a person too

shoutout to @kienava for just suggesting drawing them in bed

#critical role #imogen temult #laudna #imodna #my things #something something we deserve a soft epilogue blah blah #lets ignore my sad attempt at a background #anyway in the future they're fine and cozy and sleeping away a lazy morning #just this once tho usually they got farm chores to do #god trying to find the quote so I could write it out was. hmm #cr subreddit is….something else #thanks google I guess

[vroomgogh]

togashi actually emailed me the leaks and this is what happens in the new manga chapter. so excited to see everyone happy again <3

#hxh #hunter x hunter #gon freecss #kurapika #killua zoldyck #leorio #alluka zoldyck #leopika #basically they all reunite on whale island n do farm chores help gon w homework etc and then they all go roadtripping sightseeing the end. #my art

[bombusbombus]

Bruce definitely knows how to cook, but he's one of those guys who goes to the grocery store to get ingredients for a meal. For every meal. His fridge is normally completely empty except for protein shake ingredients.

Clark grew up with a rural family, he's definitely used to scrounging around in the cupboards and throwing together ingredients into something cohesive. My guy can take half an onion, an alien mushroom he found, some ancient lentils, and a container of leftover soup, and make a full hearty meal.

#I'd like to think he lets people give him foods sometimes #he saves someone from a flood and they insist on giving him half a pound of produce #and he's done chores on other people's farms #you never get away from that sort of thing without some fresh eggs or baked goods or something #so he's used to receiving food as gratitude! #he'd never accept money but he will accept an entire traditionally-smoked salmon because his mom raised him that way #His friends love coming over just to inspect the contents of his fridge and see what he can make with it all #dc #superbat #superman #batman #my mom had some food insecurity growing up and learning to cook from her gave me a magic touch with leftovers

[cerubean]

even though mack is enjoying her time on the ranch she still can't get over the fact that she never has time to watch tv. it's all she talks abt when she calls her mom

#there's actually two tvs but they never have time to sit and watch v.v #i need them to leave the lot more often but there's so many chores to tend to i could never have a farm irl #ts4 gameplay #s4mm #the sims 4 #s #simblr #chestnut ridge

[thesetwoidiots]

Beverly: Stephen!

Stephen: Mom! *Sees Eugene* Father. *Sees Victor* Victor.

Victor, obviously just as disgusted: Stephen.

Tony, trying to prevent an argument: Tony, Peter, Morgan!

Peter and Morgan: Hi!

#Ironstrange #Stephen Strange #Tony Stark #Beverly Strange #Eugene Strange #Victor Strange #Peter Parker #Morgan Stark #I Feel Like the Brothers Would Make Everything an Everlasting Pissing Contest #Beverly and Tony Would Try to Keep Them in Check #And Eugene Would be Too Focused on the Farm Chores to Care

[butchfriend]

fml my manager asked me if i could work tomorrow night for a private party and i said yes, completely forgot there's a contra dance tomorrow i was planning to go to with my friends. L

#my posts #and i have chore shifts at the farm tomorrow too so it's going to be a 9 hour workday 🙃 #there goes my last weekend of spring break

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

Oop I saw your tag ramble about Stardew Valley and now all I can think about is farmer-Us + Legacy.

Honestly, Wilderness farm would probably work, since fighting monsters at night is a notable feature of that specific farm-

~ The anon who wanted Kaveh but didn't want Baizhu or Ganyu I love SDV, hehe.

you and i think alike, anon,,,, little farmer and big monster friend is SO good

imagine, you as a worker who wanted to restart your life at a small farm, desiring a peaceful life of tending to your crops and making produce after living in the city for so long... only to find out that the area is infested with monsters of all types. well, no matter- you dabbled in adventuring before settling down, so you've handled a commission or two. it's more annoying than anything threatening, having to secure your crops and shoo the monsters away before retiring each night, but it eventually becomes routine- until the monsters suddenly stop appearing. you can see them in the distance at times, from the hollow eyes and inhuman forms, but they avoid your house and arm like the plague; strange, you didn't change anything, and the pet cat you took in only fights mice and the occasional lizard

everything clicks into place when you're up late one night, returning home after running several errands, and you spot a new monster, towering over the rest with crimson horns and glittering, star-speckled wings, growling and chasing the others away

it takes you a few weeks to earn the beast's trust, staying up hours into the night to catch a glimpse of him watching you from afar, keeping the other monsters away from your farm. you leave him fruit and vegetables to eat, smiling when you hear a quiet crunching noise as you're preparing for bed- once you left a flower amongst the crops, and the next night, the flower had been tucked behind one of his horns. he meets you at the road towards your home in the evenings to walk you home, slowly becoming more talkative as the days pass until he replies to each sentence you speak with a curious chirp or trill, and when the biting winter rains come, he enters your house for the first time and curls up with you by the fireplace, your cat settled on top of him

his name is Foul Legacy, you discern from the letters he scratches into the dirt, and he's your wonderful monstrous friend

#genshin impact #childe #tartaglia #foul legacy #foul legacy childe #genshin tartagalia #genshin childe #genshin tartaglia #and yes before you ask he does help with the farm too #he's only there at night #but in the daytime you meet a charming man with ginger hair who strikes up a conversation #calls himself ajax and helps you with chores when he can #by the way off topic but i think ajax has dimples #short scenario #other's stuff #chit chat #anon #good evening

[ffcrazy15]

Headcanon: Boimler is significantly better with a phaser rifle than a phaser pistol.

So. Two things about growing up in farm country mean that most people there learn how to shoot at a relatively young age. The first reason is that coyotes (and sometimes mountain lions) will absolutely try to fuck up your shit if you're a farmer. They will try to steal your pets and/or smaller livestock, and if there's a mountain lion in the area you really don't want to go walking around in a field without protection.

The second and more important reason is that hunting is big in farming communities because the state Game and Fish department relies on licensed hunters to keep the local wildlife populations healthy. Too many deer this season means not enough food, which means a lot of sick and dying deer next season. Hunters help to keep the wildlife population in check in places where humans have driven off their natural predators (since they're also unfortunately our natural predators).

The thing is, though, generally you don't use handguns for hunting (whether for protection or food); you use a rifle or a shotgun. So I think the majority of Boimler's pre-Starfleet experience with firearms would probably have been with whatever the 2300s version of a hunting rifle would be. This would explain why he seems to prefer them and knows about how to clean and take care of them, as we see in the beginning of Where Pleasant Fountains Lie.

EDITED TO ADD: A helpful person in the comments has given more relevant information/correction on the matter; I encourage y'all to check it out! Thank you @mutualweirdcalledlove!!

#obviously my “Boimler is a farm boy who wanted adventure” thesis continues #no I'm not projecting you're projecting #I wasn't a farm kid myself but I grew up in a place much like Modesto—medium-sized city surrounded by farmland—and I knew farming families #no shade to anyone who likes living in places like that but to me it was crazy boring I can see why he bailed #it's also why he's so diligent about getting his work done on the ship #the guy definitely had to wake up at 5:00 to get the chores done before school #lower decks #star trek lower decks #brad boimler #tw guns

[fictionadventurer]

By the Shores of Silver Lake was my least favorite Little House book as a kid, and upon starting the reread, I could see why. Earlier books had Laura as a child observer--not engaging in or totally understanding the wider world of the adults, but still engrossed in the simple joys of childhood. In this book, Laura is neither child nor adult--she's too old to play like a child, but she's too young to take an active part in adult life, so she's stuck in this awkward middle ground.

Yet as the book went on, I started to see that that was the point. This book is about growing up, about being on the brink of adulthood and trying to hold onto childhood while also becoming someone new. Laura's growing-up is paralleled with the "growing up" of the country around her. Both the old and the new ways of life have their benefits and their downsides, and Laura has to figure out how to hold onto the best of both.

The prairie is beautiful, wondrous, free. Laura would love to just roam forever, always traveling west, always seeing new places. She doesn't want to marry, doesn't want to teach school, doesn't want anything to change about her way of life. But one can't stay a child forever. Eventually, the infinite possibility of childhood has to turn into the definite identity of adulthood. She has to take responsibility and settle down. The arrival of the town brings that adult life to the prairie, and in doing so, it destroys the innocent wonders of nature--the majestic wolves lose their home, the buffalo are gone, and the ducks no longer land at Silver Lake. Laura has to wrestle with this--is childhood, for herself and the prairie, gone forever? Does she have to let go of childlike wonder and embrace the mundane responsibility of adult life?

This theme is resolved when Laura finds Grace in the buffalo wallow. It's a place of impossible magic and beauty, a carpet of fragrant violets hidden away from the world with butterflies flying overhead, so perfect it seems like a fairyland. Of course Grace, the innocent child, is the one who was able to find it. When Laura asks Pa about it later, he explains that the "fairies" that made this magical ring were buffalo. There's a mundane explanation for the phenomenon, but that doesn't destroy the wonder and beauty of the place--adult knowledge enhances, rather than destroys childlike wonder. The buffalo might be gone, but there's still beauty left behind. Laura can move forward into the future and know that there are still wonders to find. She can be an adult and still maintain a childlike wonder, can take responsibility and still find comfort in the safety of home and family.

This thematic resonance made so much about the book so much deeper. It's the message of the entire series distilled into story form. Remember the past, children, but go forth boldly into the future. It's a message much easier to see with an adult's eyes, so I'm so glad I gave this book another chance.

#on the shores of silver lake #little house #laura ingalls wilder #i probably only saw this theme #because i just read her collection of fairy poems #and read a bunch of her farm columns where this theme is very prominent #she loves the simple joys of life #emphasizes the importance of hanging onto wonder and joy in the face of simple tasks #her descriptions of how much she loved taking out the cattle as a child made those scenes hit much deeper #those are the times when she gets to see the beauty of nature! #it makes the mundane chore a chance for beautiful reflection! #that kind of thing is all over this book and you know it's my jam #the point where this book really started to make sense was the scene with the wolves #laura faces this majestic wolf in the moonlight and it's like a fairy tale #the fading away of a fairy king #and suddenly everything about the theme just snapped into place #if i were a scholar my dissertation would be #'these books aren't just an old lady's memories or her daughter's libertarian tracts they're art and can we please talk about them like art

[sayhowdycountrycritters]

Finished raking leaves with @sayhelloanimalfriends . We use them for ground cover / mulch under our pine tree wind breaks, as well as in the dog and chicken runs.

#me #clown husband #rural life #farm life #fall chores

[trainforanother1000years]

tonight gave me a beautiful vision of a good ending future where after doied is found out and the body swaps reversed everyone’s like, “yeah we hate your guts bc you fucked roier’s life up even more- but tbh you did do it bc you wanted to experience more in life and were maybe partially being manipulated so we can’t like. kill you over it.” so doied gets Sentenced to Community Service on dapper’s farm as punishment instead

#by god we’re gonna get you a moral compass and youll earn it by helping a middle schooler do farm chores #(and tormenting bbh while doing it🥰) #qsmp

[gargelyfloof118]

Spring/Summer 2024 to-do list:

Barn

Build chicken tractor #1

Build chicken tractor #2?

Rework chicken run roof to accommodate for snow load

Duck habitat?

Replace electric fence signs

Clean out garden weeds

Add manure and compost to sunflower zone

Manure zone for pumpkins

Manure on orchard

Make or buy new drag harrow

Possibly build second garden bed (tbd)

Plant corn before last frost

Spread straw bales on walking paths after last frost

Uncover garlic bed

Muck paddock

Toys and tools clean up

Change lawnmower oil

Unredneckify around property

Tree trimming around fence line

Forest path maintenance

Solidify plans for future animals

Get dumpster

Finish the damn stairs

#once again list not complete #homestead #farm #chores #im enjoying these lists #it gives me accountability #and we can watch the progress