This is an exciting Friday for me. I am starting another food photography class, this time with guest instructor George Crudo. Today is the first day of the class. I am always excited when a new class starts then I obsess over the assignments and ...
Gettin’ trendy at the Egg Farm!
I am not trendy. I am very bad at keeping up with what's hot and what's not. For instance: -I was still patching torn jeans when everyone else was wearing them with just waistbands and pockets. -By the time I found out about the cupcake craze, ...
Farm Focus Friday 4-25-2014
There is danger in procrastination when it comes to Farm Focus Friday. You may find yourself with a driving rain all day and an expensive new camera. The only picture I took yesterday was this shot of a patio chair being eaten by a wisteria bush. ...
Farm Focus Friday 4-18-2014
I bought a new camera two weeks ago. I have lusted over the Canon 5D Mark III for quite some time and finally decided to buy one. I am still getting used to it, but having a lot of fun. This week Michael even laid on the grass to get down to ...
What lunar eclipse?
Did you hear anything about a lunar eclipse? I did, and in preparation I set up my time-lapse camera to capture the entire thing while I slept. Michael and I watched the first phase, he took some still shots, then we headed off for bed at about this ...
Farm Focus Friday 4-11-2014
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Farm Focus Friday
This week's purchase of a new camera, a Canon 5D Mark III, has reignited my love of photography. My plan was to use it for food shots exclusively, but a trip out into the pasture changed all that. I am still getting used to it and probably don't have ...
National Poultry Day!
Today, March 19th, is National Poultry Day. I have found very little information on how it came to be, but most people celebrate by eating a chicken dinner. We do it a little differently here at the Egg Farm. We celebrated by serving our chickens ...
Pantry Reorganization
Lately I have seen a lot of bloggers posting about re-organizing their pantries. I don't have a pantry per se, but I did convert a couple of large cabinets on the service porch into pantries. They have gotten so disheveled I couldn't find anything in ...
THE vest
Late yesterday afternoon Michael and I were tending to the animal chores. Tucker got busy sniffing out and digging for gophers. At one point, he was head first, up to his elbows in a big hole that he had dug. I was horrified to look, fearing he might ...
What to do, what to do?
In the last week, our emu Loca has laid two more eggs, bringing our total to four. Here they are with a chicken eggs for size comparison. She has chosen the area between the goat dogloos as her nest and that puts the eggs in ...
Mafioso Tacchino
The Egg Farm and neighboring properties have been taken over by a gang of thugs. They have no respect, rampaging through the neighborhood at all hours of the day and night, using our grass as their personal Men's Room. These guys are brash, flashy, ...
First Poultry Show
Yesterday my friend Kelly and I went to the 67th annual Pacific Poultry Breeders Show in Stockton, California. I had never been to a poultry show before and I was not prepared. The noise, oh the noise. Immediately upon entering the Main building, we ...
Rainy Day Blues
If you haven't heard, California is in a drought and we have not had rain in 50 days, making this the driest year in recorded history. I realize this is not of much concern to those of you struggling with blizzards, flooding and the polar vortex ...
Monkey Vest Mayhem
Tucker has a neurotic attachment to his dog halter. It is orange and green with little monkey faces on it. He became attached to the halter in the pet store when I brought him in to try it on. He was so attached that, when I tried to take it off, he ...
The name change has already paid off!
We have been on a three-year plan to hatch emus. During the first year, we raised our two boy emus before finally getting two females. The girls turned two on New Year's Eve. Emus mature for mating between 18 months and three years of age. We hoped ...
The stuff of nightmares. . .
This afternoon I went out to the yard to collect eggs from the chicken coops. There were two new mounds of dirt made by gophers. One was drying already but the second was moist. As Tucker and I walked by, this stuck its head ...
Rants and Raves 2013
The year is coming to an end and I need to get a few things off my chest. There are also a lot of good things to rave about from 2013. I'll start with the rants so I can end 2013 on a positive note. Top five rants, in no particular order: 1. ...
. . . and don’t you come back!
We had uninvited guests in the emu pasture this morning. ...
Merry Christmas
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