Merry Christmas!

We went to Silver Dollar City a few days ago.  It is like King's Dominion but unapologetically Christian and we had a great time with another family of 11 all close in ages to our kids. (Ignore the guy on the right who looks like he's checking lotto numbers, he's not one of our kids). On to farm items...

Work has different hazards now. We had just finished talking about things to look out for when dropping trees and soon after we were reminded about one more (when a tree splits higher up you'd better be out of the way, start at about the :25 mark and end at :50).

Moving the chicken coop. These guys poop (and poop, and poop some more). This coop has an open floor which allows you to drag it and give the chickens a fresh floor of grass they can graze (and fertilize).

This is our commuter vehicle, it takes us to the far away tasks (like maintaining the coop, the chickens are no longer near the house). Back in VA I used to think it would be awesome if I could drive one of these to work every day and now many of us do.

Here is another excellent machine, this one has a massive amount of torque and can readily lift big trees with the front grapple (those tires are almost six feet tall).

Zeroing for pest control during lunch time. The bandit from last week has many friends that we've lost more livestock to. A coyote was spotted yesterday.

Here is another option for pest control. I really like this one, it's the most ergonomic and ambidextrous I've tried.