Family life in rural Utah.
12
Aug
Hannah’s baby bunnies are just over 2 weeks olds and are starting to open their eyes. Today we let her a get a few of them out and bring them up to the house to play on the grass. Max is a little rough with the bunnies so we have to supervise the playtime. Hannah […]
10
Aug
Every summer we make the trek to Panguitch Lake for our annual Chidester family reunion. It is fun to see family and hear the stories of Jolynn’s ancestors who helped to settle Panguitch, UT. My favorite part is helping Dan with the cooking and eating way too much food.
The weather was amazing, and the kids […]
6
Aug
Jolynn refused to pose with her batch of applesauce that she canned today. Alyssa was more than happy to do the posing. This is homemade applesauce that she made from the yellow delicious apples that Hannah and I picked from our orchard yesterday. Don’t tell Jolynn, but this half-a-days worth of hard sweaty work only […]
6
Aug
We were incubating about 80 eggs that we had collected from our pheasants. They have been incubating for about 24 days now and this morning we awoke to 30 chicks that hatched during the night. Some you can see are still wet and a little groggy from busting out of the egg. A few are […]
5
Aug
We picked the apples from our “Yellow Delicious” apple tree. Hannah was my good helper and we filled 4 5-gallon buckets clear full of apples. Jolynn is hoping to make some yummy applesauce. We discarded a couple of buckets full of wormy or bird-eaten apples. Our chickens and rabbits enjoyed eating them.
Speaking of rabbits, our […]
1
Aug
Our last full day in San Diego started with me slipping away at 5:00 AM for an el-cheapo half-day fishing charter. I really enjoyed being on the ocean and the fishing was a bit challenging with rented gear. The cost was like $40, but that’s because there was 71 people on an 80 foot fishing […]