Homesteading on 2 Acres – a Girl and her Dogs
Homesteading on 2 acres in a tiny house; a girl, her dogs, and some vegan recipes
I live out in the middle of nowhere surrounded by caliche hills dotted with prickly pear and yucca surrounded by oak and cedar woods, peppered with the occasional elm, mimosa, or sumac tree. Rattlesnakes are a real and present issue. Now, if one keeps the lawn mowed, the snakes move on through. If one lets …
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I let the grass get thigh high and a rattlesnake moved into the chicken pen and returned to this particular spot under the water dispenser every night. The wide flat head told me what it was and its return to the same spot nightly told me it was not just passing through. I had let …
This young rattlesnake was in the path when i went to water the orchard one night and i saw it in the headlamp stream right as i raised my foot to step where it was. I then quietly stepped back instead of forwards as i realized i was about to put my foot on a …
It was late. I had worked a full shift and closed at the store. It was nearly 10 pm and now i had to water all the plants by moonlight and the sky happened to be overcast. I parked the car, grabbed my pitcher, and headed for the spigot on the side of the well …