About

I'm always looking for new experiences, cultures and ideas to share with our friends and family.  I'm a gruBBy huBBy, Dad, Grandpa x5, business owner and fuRRy cOmpaniOn chAmpiOn.

My wife and I raise free range laying hens and have for 25+ years.  After eating fresh eggs, it's much too difficult to go back to store bought.  In the fall of each year we raise a small quantity of turkeys.

In addition, we usually have 30 - 40 outside cats that are extremely friendly due to being given food, water, shelter and lots of TLC.  They have many warm places to sleep in our barn during the harsh winter... one enclosed area inside the barn has a heat lamp inside which houses all the cats comfortably (we charge them a nominal monthly fee for rent & electricity *lol*).  In return, as you could guess... we have a mouse/rat free zone due to their hunting prowess.

In past years we've raised:
  • Sheep - for wool - my wife cleans, kards & spins it... that's correct, with a spinning wheel.
  • Pygmy Goats - because we wanted to make sure that we always had something to do such as repairing; fences, gates, latches, walls, garden crops, flower beds & anything else they could destroy.  However, nothing beats the cute faces, noises and the bouncing around of a baby pygmy goat.
  • Pigs - very clean and intelligent animals, plus 6 of them can roto-till an overgrown area of 200' x 200' in under 60 days.
  • Laying Hens - for the obvious reason of farm fresh, free range eggs.  Haven't eaten store bought eggs in a long time.
  • Turkeys - they are quite inquisitive and will follow you around the yard like faithful pOOches.
  • Feeder Chickens - for eating - 50 of these can consume more feed in 8 weeks than 6 pigs can in 4 months.
  • Rabbits - because we didn't believe that they really multiplied as fast as other people said they could... okay, lesson learned and then some.
  • Ducks - figured what-the-heck after having so many other criTTers at our petting zoo.

Aside from our obsessive compulsive disorder with animals, I'm a SciFi fan (so is my wife) starting with StarTrek (TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise) and Star Wars but also enjoy a wide range of shows including; SG1, SGA, Smallville, Bones, Fringe, Eureka, Warehouse 13, Continuum, The 100, Sleepy Hollow, Arrow, Flash, iZombie, Elementary, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Once Upon a Time, Castle and so many more.

I should wArn you that I have a good sense of humOr but it's quite dry.

Regards,
@Three_Ten