Noah and I were hiking through the woods last fall when we came across a khaki colored cocoon like thing about the size of the end of my thumb. We picked it up and decided to take it home and see if it would hatch out. Well today was the day. We had put it in a cricket bucket with some leaves (we found it in the leaves) and put a tin foil lid on it. Melissa was the first one to see it hanging from the top. When they crawl out of their cocoon they have to hang upside down so the fluid will fill out their wings and they will be able to fly. We took the top off and set him out on the deck and by the time we checked after supper he was gone. He was a beautiful specimen and I'm sure he is off in search of a female as he will only live for a couple of weeks.
God blessed me and Noah with being able to harvest a mature gobbler this morning. Good Friday sure is starting off good! I would just like to take a moment to thank my good friend Tommy Hite for introducing me to Turkey hunting. He put up with my terrible calling and rookie mistakes for years which now has allowed me to begin to pass on this great outdoor activity to my son. So thanks Tommy...this one's for you.
Welcome!
Welcome to our family blog. We have a small (55 acres) farm and are attempting to raise beef cattle, some hay, laying hens, honey bees, a dog and a small garden. We also have a small pond that has fish in it but they pretty much raise themselves.The Twenty-eight eleven is the name of our farm. It comes from Deutronomy 28:11 which reads: "The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you." We count on God's blessings for our life as we know it so we thought it appropriate to go ahead and give Him all the glory for anything good that we produce, be it crops, cows, or children. This blog will be a fun project for us to document what is going on at our farm and hopefully share some natural ways of farming along the way (as we learn too).
