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- “EVERY YEAR IS DIFFERENT”
- “Potting On”
- “SIX-PACK” GROWS UP
- 2011 GARDEN PLAN
- 2012 GARDEN IS COMPLETE
- 2012 Garden Plan
- 2013 PLANS
- 2015 BREAK FROM GARDENING
- 2017 GARDEN IN REVIEW
- 2018 GARDEN RECAP
- 2019 FLOCK OF FIVE
- 2020 SUMMER NEMESES
- 2021 GARDEN & GREENHOUSE PLANNING
- 2021: WHAT A SUMMER!
- 6-1=5
- A COUPLE OF HAMS
- A FIRM FOUNDATION
- ALL DECKED OUT
- ALL DECKED OUT – PART II
- ALL THAT GLITTERS…IS GOLDIE!
- Almost 100%
- APRIL 2017 GARDEN PREPARATION
- Asparagas and Cats
- ASPEN FURNITURE
- August Garden
- BASEMENT WALLS
- Berries & Seedlings
- BESS
- Big Day!
- BIG DUCKS, LITTLE DUCKS
- Boy Blue
- Bring On 2010!
- Broccoli, Kale, Lettuce, Spinach & More
- Busy Gardener
- Cats in the Garden
- Celery & Leeks
- CHANGES
- Changes: Pool
- Changes: Drakes & Ducks
- Changes: Yard
- Changes: Yard – New Video
- Chickens or Ducks?
- Clay
- CO’D IN CO!
- Cold Frame Construction
- Cold Frame Planted!
- Colorado May Weather
- CONSTRUCTION UPDATE
- Cottonwood, Juglone and Tomatoes
- Cutting Back on Power Consumption
- D-Day (Drake Day)
- Deep Mulching 2013
- DILEMMA: HIGH ALTITUDE OR HIGH ELEVATION?
- DINNER & WATER IN THE HH
- DOWN TO 5 DUCKS
- Duck Dinner
- Duck Paddock
- Duck Routine
- Duck Yard & Pool
- Duckling Brooder – Part 1
- Duckling Brooder – Part 2
- Duckling Brooder – Part 3
- Duckling Brooder – Part 4
- Duckling Feed
- DUCKLINGS ARE HERE!
- DUCKLINGS DAY SEVEN
- Ducklings First Time Outside & In Water
- DUCKLINGS HAVE ARRIVED
- Ducklings Keep Growing
- Ducklings Meet the Day
- Ducks 2013
- Ducks 2014
- Ducks at 22 Weeks
- DUCKS CATCH MICE!
- Ducks Say “Good Morning”
- Ducks’ First Snow
- EARLY SPRING 2020
- Eating Local
- Egg in the Nest Box
- Egg!!!
- Eight Weeks
- ELECTRIFYING!
- ELK
- EVERY YEAR IS DIFFERENT
- FINALLY – THE CUSTOM KITCHEN IS UNDERWAY
- First Cold Frame Planting
- FIRST EGGS!
- First Harvest
- FOUNDATION COMPLETE
- Four Ducks A- Laying
- FOUR EGGS! (ABOUT TIME!)
- Four Quackers and a Mystery
- Four Weeks: Feathers & Quacking
- Frustrations of Planting Outside
- Fungus Is Gone
- Garden Plan 2011
- GARDEN PLANNING FOR 2017
- Garden Plans 2009
- GARDEN REFLECTIONS
- Garden Terracing
- Garden Work Area
- GERTRUDE
- GERTRUDE – UPDATE
- GERTRUDE’S PROGRESS
- GETTING CLOSER TO THE VISION
- GOD IS IN THIS
- GOLDEN CASCADE DUCKLINGS @ ONE WEEK
- Golden Cascade Ducklings: Videos
- Golden Gaits Garden Begins
- GOLDIE’S NEW YARD
- GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION
- Greenhouse Construction Has Begun
- Greenhouse!
- GROWING DUCKLINGS
- GROWING ZONES & MOUNTAIN CLIMATES
- GUFFEY GARDEN?
- Hail!
- HAMMING IT UP
- HAPPY HOUSE AND BARN
- HAVING A “BLAST”
- Here’s How it Looks
- HIGH COUNTRY LIVING IS LIVE!
- Hornworms
- HOUSE FOR SALE
- HOUSE ON A TRAILER
- IN CONTRACT
- Indoor Forest
- Indoor Seedlings
- INSTANT HOUSE
- IT’S “EX-SIDING”?
- It’s July!
- IT’S OFFICIAL?
- Jackpot!
- KK + Zadie
- Landscaping
- LATE AUGUST PROGRESS: 2017
- LEAVING SOON
- Leeks
- LIGHTING FOR EGG PRODUCTION
- LIGHTS FOR EGGS
- LIVING OFF THE LAND
- LOCAL CRITTERS
- LOCK DOWN!
- LOOKING UP
- MAKING PLANS
- Male, Female, Gold, Silver
- MAY IN THE ROCKIES
- MEGA POST
- Micro Blocks
- More “Potting On”
- MOUNTAIN LIVING, MAY 2015
- Moving Day
- MOVING FORWARD
- MOVING RIGHT ALONG
- MUH-DEE
- My First Soil Blocks!
- NEIGHBORS
- New Addition
- New Duck House & Paddock
- NEW DUCKLINGS COMING
- New Year, New Garden
- NO LIGHTS IN THE DUCK HOUSE
- NORTHERN BOBWHITES
- Now We Are Six
- OFF-GRID
- ORGANIZATION, PLANNING & RECORD KEEPING
- OUR MOUNTAIN GAITWAY
- Outdoor Changes
- Pathways & Weed Control
- Peas, Please!
- PHOTOS OF OUR NEW PROPERTY
- Planting Season
- Planting Tomatoes and More
- Potatoes 2013
- Progress, Seedlings, Fertilizer
- Pumpkin-Apple Granola
- Rabbits
- Rain, Hail, Cool Weather
- Rain, Rain, Rain
- Remembering the 2013 Garden
- REMINISCING
- Rethinking: Soil & Garden Planning
- RETIRED? WHAT’S THAT?
- REVIEW: INSTANT POT ULTRA (FOR HIGH ELEVATION)
- REVIEW: MUELLER ULTRA POT (FOR HIGH ELEVATION)
- Rooftop Garden Shots
- RV HAS A SKIRT
- RV WINDOW SHADES
- Seedling Progress
- Seedlings in Blocks – Future Plans
- Seeds
- Sheet Mulching – Day 1
- Sheet Mulching – Day 2
- Slacker Quackers
- SNOW IN JUNE ?!?!?!?
- SNOW. SEPTEMBER 8.
- Snowy
- So Many Tomatoes
- Soil Blocking
- SOURDOUGH ENGLISH MUFFINS
- SPOT FLIES!
- SQUASH & EGGS :: A GREAT COMBO!
- Squash 2013
- Strawberries & Peppers
- SUMMER LIVING
- Temporary “Greenhouse”
- Thar’s Voles in my Peppers!
- THE “HAPPY” HOUSE
- The $64 Tomato
- THE 2016 SIX-PACK HAS RETIRED
- THE BACKGROUND
- The Duck House – “Duck Inn”
- THE DUCK STORY
- The Ducks Are Here!
- The Ducks Have It
- The Garden Groweth
- THE GARDEN SITE
- THE NEXT CHAPTER
- THE NORTH 20 FENCE
- THE RESULTS ARE IN!
- THE ROAD AHEAD
- The Terraces are Coming Along!
- This One’s For Calvin (Charlie, too!)
- Three Ducks A-Layin
- Three Sisters
- Three Weeks Old
- TIMELINE
- Tomatoes 2013
- Topsoil
- Topsy Turveys and More Landscaping
- Transplanting MICROS to 2″ MINI Blocks
- TRIPLE CLINK AND READY TO FINISH
- TWO NEW DUCKS
- TWO YEARS LATER
- UNHAPPY WITH THE “HAPPY HOUSE” PROCESS
- Updates: Seedlings, Ducks, Grass, Rain
- W-I-N-D: Wind, Wind, Wind
- WATCHING THE WEATHER
- WE DID IT!
- WE HAVE WATER!
- WE’RE GONNA HAVE A BARN
- Weather and Misc
- WEATHER IN PIKE TRAILS RANCHES
- WELCOME TO THE COLORADO MOUNTAINS!
- WELL, WELL, WELL
- Welsh Harlequin Ducks at 17 Weeks
- WHAT GROWS HERE & WHAT DOES NOT
- What is this Fungus?
- WHERE THE DEER & THE ANTELOPE…UH…INVADE?
- Whitey
- Whitey and Growing Ducks
- WHY WE MOVED HERE
- Wind Damage
- WINTER CAMPING
- WINTER CHALLENGES
- WINTER DUCKS
- WINTER PASTIMES
- Work in the Garden
- WORKING ON THE BATHROOM