Good Morning!--Chat thread

[lupinfarm]

Saskatoon berries grow all over Canada. Theres a Saskatoon Berry Tree down our road and we're in Ontario!

Good day everyone! ... No post augering yet, the guy didn't show and didn't call but to be fair to him it was thundering and storming out. Cut our first jump pole, and refilled the duck pool but it's raining and nasty out.

 

[2468herdsrgr8]

HM?? Thanks so much Can you take a photo? I probably have seen it but never knew what it was called..and you can eat them?

 

[WildRoseBeef]

2468, Saskatoons are DELICIOUS. Both raw and cooked: you can make jam, jelly, pie and other tasty deserts from the berries. Be ware though when you pick them they're stain your hands (and mouth) purple.

Saskatoons are a shrub, with berries hanging on them almost like grapes. Especially the two ice-cream pails I picked from the end of the laneway.

Here's a website on the details of the Saskatoon:
http://www.prairieberries.com/

Edit: And yes I do live in Alberta.

 

[wynedot55]

im hiding out being lazy today.but ill still have todo some work.

 

[lupinfarm]

2468, Saskatoons are DELICIOUS. Both raw and cooked: you can make jam, jelly, pie and other tasty deserts from the berries. Be ware though when you pick them they're stain your hands (and mouth) purple.

Saskatoons are a shrub, with berries hanging on them almost like grapes. Especially the two ice-cream pails I picked from the end of the laneway.

Here's a website on the details of the Saskatoon:
http://www.prairieberries.com/

Edit: And yes I do live in Alberta.

WildRoseBeef, they also come on tree stock now

 

[Thewife]

WOOOOHOOOO!!!!

I have posts!
I have wire!
I have a Hubby that is planning on going fishing this up coming weekend.(insert foul word here)

Also, the hay picker upper, that I didn't see on craiglist!
(really thought my boys were gonna lynch me for that one)

Well, a friend of Hubby's picked it up and now he wants to sell it!
Our good neighbors might buy it!
I think my boys are gonna love the neighbors more than they love me!

 

[lupinfarm]

No posts in YET, but we've had 3 different people call us about it in the last 24 hours, if the other guy doesn't show up or call by 12pm tomorrow then we're calling the next auger guy in the line up ha-ha.

In the meantime, buck fencing! It's not finished, because we ran out of recycled rails from the old corral out front of the barn, we have to buy extras now because we're missing 1/3 of the field and this section here only has 2 rails on it, when it actually needs 3 on the front and 1 on the back for support. It will also have 4 lines of electric on the inside.

As you can see, if floats on the ground.





And Luna (Chestnut) and Tetley (Fleabitten) graze in the field this afternoon before it got thundery. For the record, Luna is 14hh and Tetley is 16.3hh, Luna is definitely a midget ha-ha.

 

[lupinfarm]

Oh yeah, in this immediate area, Buck fence is most commanly used for Horses, Cattle, and.... GOATS because you can add lots of rails and still run electric on it.

 

[Thewife]

The posts I need to put in should be easy, it's a peat bog!
I might have to stand on the quad to put the 7ft posts in and the cows will probably just push them over or in deeper in no time, but the fence should look good for at least the first year!

 

[lupinfarm]

The posts I need to put in should be easy, it's a peat bog!
I might have to stand on the quad to put the 7ft posts in and the cows will probably just push them over or in deeper in no time, but the fence should look good for at least the first year!

Haha, I get that totally... our bottom field has at least 14 posts that are leaning. We only have 2.5 ft of soil on that side of the field where they are leaning... I have to go down there before fall and put up some buck fence sections to split that field in half for rotational grazing ... It'll also prop up the fence while I cement the posts in LOL.