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"It was a cold wintry day when I brought my children to live in rural West Virginia. The farmhouse was one hundred years old, there was already snow on the ground, and the heat was sparse-—as was the insulation. The floors weren’t even, either. My then-twelve-year-old son walked in the door and said, “You’ve brought us to this slanted little house to die." Keep reading our story....

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• When we had pigs a couple of years we had a chicken die so we tossed the body into the pig pen, OMG! It was frightening just how brutal they were with the carcass. It made us even more careful while tending the pigs.
  Janb on Well, That Was Disappointing
• A pig will eat a chicken??? I have learned the most interesting, and sometimes strange stuff reading C.I.T.R. Waiting for the next installment about your amazing farm.
  DeniseS on Well, That Was Disappointing
• Yep. LGD stories always end well! For those who don't know.... LGD = Livestock Guardian Dog (such as my dogs, Great Pyrenees.) My dogs would die saving a chicken before they'd eat a chicken.
  Suzanne McMinn on Well, That Was Disappointing
• Not a pig story, but it has a better ending. I have a hen with 5 chicks in a 10x10 dog lot until they get big enough to go in the coop. The chicken wire that I had wrapped around the bottom of the chain link needed to be fixed, but I procrastinated. The babies would run in and out making the hen mad. Just like kids, you know. Well... the hen decided she wanted out. Flew over the top of the pen, hollered for her babies and they popped right through the fence to follow her -- into the goat yard where Roscoe and Leroy the LGDs live. They like to "play" with chickens. The hen started yelling, I started moving, Leroy had fluff sticking out his lip. FabHub jumped the fence and Leroy set the chick down and looked at us like "What? I was protecting it...
  STracer on Well, That Was Disappointing
• Winter 2016/17 should be a weak La Nina season so weather forecasters tell us to generally expect lots of cold here in the upper Midwest. West Virginia is kind of on the boundary. You are already seeing their prediction of drier than usual weather this fall and its supposed to continue into the winter for the southeast US. BUT just north of you lots of snow is predicted and it could well drop down in a big storm. There's a big blob of really warm air hovering off the northwest US that they're watching closely to affect the winter weather for everyone so there could be a lot of unpredictable storms.
  joykenn on The Year It Was Weird
• They are very cute! and they will taste so good. Part of the good and bad of raising your own food.
  Glenda on Let Sleeping Pigs
• Now of course, I don't know how true this is, but I heard someone say they had read in the Farmers Almanac and also heard from weather forecasters, that this winter is supposed to be worse than last winter...colder and more snow! I sure hope not - last winter was miserable, and the electric bill was outrageous!!
  yvonnem on The Year It Was Weird
• These sound delicious and I will be trying them soon, a couple of these muffins with a nice cup of coffee or tea--the perfect meal. Thank you for another wonderful recipe.
  Joell on Maple-Bacon Corn Muffins
• Thank you! I was starting to think that I was the only one that thought this was a strange Summer. Usually our garden does so well, my tomatoes grown so high the fall over even on the tall stakes and we have more tomatoes than we know what to do with, this year, very different, that plants didnt even reach the tops of the stakes and looked sort of puny I fed them as I always did, didnt help, some of my flowers didnt hardly grew at all. Rain? We had plenty in the Spring than very little, once in a while a huge rain but not the kind we needed. I am wondering about the Winter, some reports say we will have more snow than normal, but I am not sure what the even means---what is a "normal" Winter?
  Joell on The Year It Was Weird
• It has been so hot and dry here in my part of SC that all the hickory nuts turned black and fell off the trees about three months ago. All the trees except for the biggest oaks and hickories looked wilted and we haven't mowed our front yard grass in over a month.
  DebbieM on The Year It Was Weird
• Have been wondering how Winter will play out, too. With all the rain, recently in IA, WI, and MN, I'm glad it's not snow. BUT relief is coming. Our high for Monday will be 69. So the cooler air should be coming your way a few days later.
  DeniseS on The Year It Was Weird

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