I will open this post with a picture of Poppy's kids, buckling on the left, Vinca on the right. Our last post was all about the...

And just like that, our 2023 kidding season is complete! Daisy (who had triplets last year) gave birth to two kids, a doeling and a...

I am so happy to announce that one third of our 2023 kiddings has been accomplished. Our sweet Belle gave birth very early on Easter...

Our last post was titled Waiting on Spring. Well, we are still waiting for that and now we are getting ready for little goats. I have...

Wow, it's been a month since our last blog post - it seems like the only thing that's been going on here is snow! That is not really the...

With February waning, hopefully spring is not far off. We have had a wide range of temperatures this month - a week of above freezing...

Oh January in Minnesota - love it or not, we have to deal with it! Warning here - there will be a photo towards the end of this post with...

The main story around here is still snow. The picture above is the deep snow in the back yard of The North House. Rollie feeds the birds...

The big story around here is snow. The snow started on Wednesday and although the heavy stuff was done on Thursday it didn't really stop...

As indicated in the title of this post, Kevin will be adding his annual deer hunting report at the end of this post. Spoiler - there...

As you can imagine, a lot has happened around here since our last post. I am quite fond of my hens - I try not to get attached to them...

Since our last blog post, we have had some really warm weather and some downright chilly weather which is as it should be - it is October...

Greetings from the farm! Isn't this cooler weather great! I am not trying to cover so many topics with this post - just a couple of...

Wow, it has been thirty days since our last post here! As you can imagine, there has been a lot of activity here at Ole Lake Farm. We...

The end of July also was the end of our haying season. Compared to last year, the harvest was plentiful; the hayshed contains more than...

July 13th already - this summer is just flying by! I thought it was about time to get another post done. Since our last post at the end...

Last weekend family gathered to celebrate Ardis and Rollie's 60 years of marriage. It was great to visit with family we don't get to see...

Our last post included a little detail of what was going on in the chicken coop with Mamma Hens Two and Three. They had chicks hatch at...

What do you get when you put three hens and two batches of hatchlings together in one room? A little bit of chaos. I will come back...

I've heard more than one person say that since spring got off to a late start this year, we might just jump right in to summer. I hope...