FALL HAS ARRIVED! 🍂 | Life at The 10 Acre Woods

Good morning and welcome to the 10-acre woods. Mark and Terry here on this overcast, misty, kind of rainy morning. Dreary. Dreary. 16 degrees out today. So, not too bad. It's still t-shirt weather. As long as you're working. Yeah. If you're not working. Yeah, it's not too bad. So we're gonna head out and feed the animals. Marlene has just arrived here and we're, yeah, as you saw in the last video, we're getting ready for winter. So unfortunately, yeah, this early. September, right? But we don't usually get and keep snow until around Halloween. Halloween can be kind of an off and on. If we get snow on Halloween or have it for Halloween, we generally have it to stay. So something else that happened about a week ago. Our province of Manitoba announced that we will not be changing our clocks ever again for Daylight Savings Time. So we're going to be sticking on Daylight Savings Time. So I believe it's November 1st. The other places will be changing clocks spring ahead and fall back. So currently the entire prairie provinces of Canada do not change their time zone. They are staying on Daylight Savings Time with one small little section of Newfoundland on the East Coast that remains unchanged as well. Interesting to know, are there any of you in other areas that don't change your clocks or do you have plans to change your clocks? Oh boy! Excited! Look at all the leaves falling, right Levi? And the acorns of all. We saw that a couple weeks ago. All the acorns fell down. We're going to try something a little different with our septic field, which is this mound right here. In the past, we've used flax straw. And the reason using flax straw is because it's got the flaxseed oil in it and it's fairly robust and takes a very long time to rot. But, you know, they fall apart. They're a little hard to come by. We've been having some problems. Last time we got them, they were horrible flax bales. So we were doing a little bit of research and there's a blanket that you can put over top of it. So there's a few different. It's basically a construction blanket is what it is. We picked it up locally. We picked up, I think, two or three of them. And the idea is you have to mow it down very low when it, you know, when the growing season is pretty much done and right before you get the snow to fall because it has to sit as close to the ground as possible to properly insulate. So it's just insulating it to make sure that the septic field does not freeze. It's happened twice years ago and we just don't want it to happen again. Okay. So I turned around and Marlene and Tara were walking behind me. So I was chatting about the septic field. We didn't see the ponies get fed. So we, of course, have the three out here. Hi Levi. And we have the two others, Shorty and JD over there. Petunia. No. Petunia's just going out with the rest of them. Oh, and I hit Tara. Yeah, last week the door wasn't on here. So Tara's put that door on. Oh, dusty. I always do that downwind. Now she's, she's like, I'm busy eating grains. Petunia. No, she's fine. She doesn't need to come in. All right. So yeah. So Tara did this part here. So of course last week it was open and she put on this section and then we've got the door. So there's our winter setup. I've got to be quick on the camera today. Tara means business. Don't want to slow her down. So the ducklings. Good morning, mamas and little ones. Oh, and Barry. Barry. Hi, bud. So we will decide once the temperature kind of changes, we'll get these guys in their winter enclosure, which is over on the other side by the ponies. We just have to close in the front section. I believe the side. Yeah. The side as well along there and then the front section. So that all has to be done and keep the cold or the wind, primarily the wind and snow out. The cold is going to get in there no matter what. But yeah, it's it's a fact of where we live, right? Tank junior. Look at the size difference between tank junior. Obviously the one on the left and one of the chickens, one of the hens. Tara is still going on. I think she's focused. Yeah, she's she's going to skip the the other breakfast and just go with the regular stuff, I believe. Yeah. All right. Well, enjoy your breakfast. Oh, what goes on there? I've turned my head. I think I got it on camera, but rooster action because there's a lot of them around. Speaking of roosters for it's been a couple of weeks now, we noticed that well, last weekend, I talked about the roosters in their different areas and we've got this area here. We've got about four areas and they tend to go and be the alpha of their domain in that territory. So we've got one black and gray rooster that's over in the dog run, and that's where he kind of hangs out. And we noticed that he's actually sleeping, roosting underneath the stairs to the house. So I went and took a camera and I thought, OK, I'm going to hook this up and I'm going to set it there. Just check out to see when he gets up and when he gets down. We first saw it because we were out on the front deck and it was dusk, ready for bed. And we heard this flapping of wings because he was jumping up and there's lattice that's directly under him that he rests on. But of course, lattice doesn't have a flat, straight edge on the top. So he kind of jumped up and his foot was down and he was trying to correct his balance with his wings. Well, hello, Holly. Yeah, they're doing really well. And Noel, did you drop some there by accident? Oh, there's hay. Oh, what is that? Garbage? Garbage. Hi, Noel and Holly. Sorry. Oh, yeah, they're working into the herd. It's starting to rain. Very good. Very well. Yeah, it is starting to rain. Supposed to rain most of the day today. So it's going to be an inside day. These guys got their vegetables. Look, Charlie. There we go. I wouldn't throw it outside, but it just started to rain. Yeah, you want to keep them dry, I guess. Normally what we do is we do put them, we feed them inside under shelter, but we didn't realize it was going to start raining so soon or misting. Not the end of the world, I suppose. But just keeping these little kids dry. Right, Nestor? Is that my finger? Now that quietened Charlie down. Oh, yeah. Well, it was funny because the other night it was fairly late and Charlie comes just walking along through the bed and honking away or whatever he does. Oinking. Here he is, comes out of the night and he's looking for food. And I'm like, Charlie, go to bed. It's like you'll see him late at night. Just him. If it's not raining, of course, he doesn't like the rain either. But he'll be wandering around, just nibbling on things. He's a late night eater. It's a funny boy. Oh, this is the cut salad, the already processed salad. Yeah. So we get weekly donations of fruits and vegetables. We go over it, make sure it is good for our animals to eat. There's no no bad stuff. So this looks like and those are all. Yeah. Yeah. Those are all chickens appreciated, especially this time of year when the leaves are changing. They can't eat the leaves like normal. Yeah. So a few of the other things that we've got here are bananas, which is probably Charlie's, the pigs in general, the favorite food. One of them anyway. And then we've got some peppers here. And that was what Tucker had hanging out of his mouth just a minute ago. Broccoli, apples and a mixture of some kiwi, cucumbers. So they do get fed well. We pick up once a week and we try to use the stuff that's going to spoil quickly, like that lettuce. That and in here during the winter months, it never gets below freezing. So that's great. We'll bring it in. We store it here and then there it goes through and feeds it to the animals and they love it. Let me close. And there it is. Entertainment. Yeah. And they will go through that pretty quickly. So it's, it's their, it's today's challenge. Cantaloupe. Yeah, I see that. Yeah. They polished off and ate all the cantaloupe, even stripped that one down pretty good. Yeah. So they'll hang out in here and they'll just munch away. This is part of the winter enclosure. I'm not sure what exactly is in Tara's mind with the incorporation of which birds are going where. The ducks and geese go over on that side. She may have the roosters in here. So we've got a couple roosters in here. And then of course our hens and our guinea fowl. So normally they would go inside, but she's got some smaller breeds in there and Tara just changes her mind quite often. And I have to just kind of live life here on the farm one day at a time. Okay. The animals are starting to go in. They're like, it's getting wet out, but there's some that are sticking to it. Of course, these guys, these guys will just stay out here. Of course they don't mind the, the geese don't mind water. Are you going to try again? Oh, here they come heads down. Oh, I guess the heads. Yeah. Usually. Yeah. I was wondering what they were doing there for a minute. Cause they weren't going in. Usually they put their head down because they don't like their faces to get wet. So, so they'll walk in that fashion, right? Oh, what'd you do? You fall down. Is that embarrassing? All right. Most of them are now in here. So it's hay time now that it's raining out, right? Sheldon, what do you think? Good morning. Good morning. How are you? Our special boy. So a little cat update checking in on our black cats. Here's Coda. Hi. Everybody's sleeping. Lucifer's over here. Hi Lucifer. What are you doing? Yes. Always wanting attention. Aren't you? Yeah. Hi. And Anara and Rhea, mother daughter. It's just Rhea now. Right? Yeah. Where's your mama? Where's your mama? And probably Nix. Yeah. Nix is here. Hi Nix. She loves this spot. And here. Here. Here. Are you sleeping? I think he's still passed out. You usually cannot pet him. Hi dear. He doesn't want to make eye contact. Silly kitties. So the other two, who are we missing? Well, we don't know where Anara is or Zoria. Eros and Coda. Eros and Aurora are probably downstairs. So they're scattered. It's sleep time, isn't it? It's sleep time. Yeah. Here's Zoria. There you are. So I just published a review video on our other channel, which I'm trying to push the reviews more so over onto that channel. I do from time to time put reviews on this channel of products that companies send. And I usually put those out on a weekday video and then keep the video vlog for kind of weekends. But it was an interesting video. I had a lot of fun with it. It is an infrared camera that actually plugs into your phone. So it's made by Thermalmaster. And part of the video was it was completely pitch dark. And I put it on and I went around and I looked at all of the cats, tried to find them. It wasn't very hard to find them. There was even a section underneath the chair where it looked like there was a cat, but it turns out it was Coda that was sleeping there and had gotten up and left. So there's two modes on it. One's kind of a night mode and one's a kind of a heat mode where you can see the rainbow color. So that was a fun little project. If you want to check out that video, I will put a link up here for that. And that is it for this video. Hope you enjoyed it. And we hope to see you next time here at the 10 Acre Woods. Take care.