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- “EVERY YEAR IS DIFFERENT”
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- 2011 GARDEN PLAN
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- 4 Eggs, About Time!
- 6-1=5
- A Firm Foundation
- All Decked Out
- All Decked Out – Part II
- All That Glitters … Is Goldie !
- Almost 100%
- And Now We Are Five
- APRIL 2017 GARDEN PREPARATION
- Asparagas and Cats
- ASPEN FURNITURE
- August Garden
- Basement Walls
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- Bess
- Big Day!
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- CHANGES
- Changes: Pool
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- Changes: Yard – New Video
- Chickens or Ducks?
- CHOOSING THE GARDEN SITE
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- 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 and Water in the HH
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- Duck Yard & Pool
- Duckling Brooder – Part 1
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- Duckling Brooder – Part 3
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- Ducklings Have Arrived!
- Ducklings Keep Growing
- Ducklings Meet the Day
- Ducks 2013
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- Ducks Are Here!
- Ducks at 22 Weeks
- Ducks Say “Good Morning”
- Ducks’ First Snow
- EARLY SPRING 2020
- Eating Local
- Egg in the Nest Box
- Egg!!!
- Eight Weeks
- Electrifying !
- EVERY YEAR IS DIFFERENT
- Finally – the Custom Kitchen is Under Way
- First Cold Frame Planting
- First Eggs!
- First Harvest
- Foundation Done
- Four Ducks A- Laying
- 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
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- 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!
- Happy House
- 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
- Lighting the Duck House
- Lights for Eggs
- LIVING OFF THE LAND
- Local Critters
- LOCK DOWN!
- Looking Up
- MAKING PLANS
- Male, Female, Gold, Silver
- Mega Post
- Micro Blocks
- More “Potting On”
- Mountain Living, May 2015
- Moving Day
- Moving Forward
- Moving Right Along
- Muh-DEE
- My Ducks Catch Mice!
- My First Soil Blocks!
- Neighbors
- New Addition
- New Duck House & Paddock
- New Year, New Garden
- Northern Bobwhites
- Now We Are Six
- 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
- 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
- Six-Pack Grows Up
- Slacker Quackers
- SNOW IN JUNE ?!?!?!?
- SNOW. SEPTEMBER 8.
- Snowy
- So Many Tomatoes
- Soil Blocking
- SOURDOUGH ENGLISH MUFFINS
- Spot Flies!
- Squash 2013
- Squash and Eggs: A Great Combination
- 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 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 Start Finishing
- 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 and the Antelope, uh…, Invade?
- Whitey
- Whitey and Growing Ducks
- Why We Moved Here
- Wildlife
- Wind Damage
- Winter Camping!!
- WINTER CHALLENGES
- Winter Ducks
- WINTER PASTIMES
- Work in the Garden
- Working on the Bathroom