Sustaining Adventures: Catching up on happenings from the past month...

...And so it goes...
A traveler/adventurer tends to try new and challenging things, thus the adventure part of adventuring. Seems life would be quite boring without the challenges, successes and strife which come from the adventuring and "venturing" into new territory. It's what feeds us, knowledge and understanding come from exploration of new and sometimes challenging paths and routes we might follow.
This trip to Southern Utah has been just that, a new, challenging, learningful route.
We will be moving next month, not to the objective and intended farm, but to another nearby farm, which has a nice accommodations for us, and 80 acres to play around with. This place I mention has lots of water, sunshine, fresh air, goats, chickens, pastures, orchards, tractors, tools, shop-space, etc. (pics to come) sounds kinda like a dream, I know, but it does need a lot of work to make it the dream. We are just going to be tenants for now. Only 1.5 million could buy the whole deal, any takers? We'll see how things develop over the next several months...
As for the intended objective and reason for moving down here, lets just say, well, you won't really truly understand and realize a situation fully until you embrace it, live in it and spend some time in it. Well, three months I feel was enough time for us to at least begin to understand the circumstances. Not what we were looking for, but a productive experiential adventure non-the-less.
So let the adventuring live on and sustain us!!!

One last look at the Gold-laced Wyandot chickies that we raised partly in SLC, and partly in Glendale... for our friends up the road. Also a chicken tractor based on a Harvey Ussery design and dust-bathing box, both of which Nate built for our friends up the road.

We had one of the 30 wyandot birds get some kind of neurological dissorder... she had trouble walking. So we brought her home and tried to nurse her to health. Seemed to just get worse though. So we took her in the mountains with us for a weekend of camping for her final days...

This Black widow made it's home in the garage under the window. eventually we had to re-locate her.

Rob, Shannan, and "Tilly" came down for the weekend to ride and climb. This is Rob cruising on the Navajo Lake loop trail. Nice ride. And that's Matilda ("Tilly") the dog.

Tilly taking a sundown dip in Navajo lake.

There's a funny story behind this Buff Orpington. So brother Drew and friend Geneva had this bird show up in there yard in Salt Lake in February, it hung around for a couple of days, they fed it some oats, then delivered it to our house. We adopted it, integrated it into our flock, and brought it down to Orderville and the farm with us. She got "broody" sometime in early June, so our friend stuck six fertile eggs from fertile friends down the road.... and whuala! 21 days later she hatched out these healthy little Gold-laced wyondot chicks... three of 'em. She's been such a good mother so far. Thinking two or all three might be roosters... we'll see.
Thanks for the "Cosmic Buff" Drew!

This is how Egypt helps rack the first Orderville Pale Ale. As of now, it's flowing from the keg-erator. Yum.

Nice rainbow over the hells backbone road on my way to the Permaculture Design Cert. course at Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch in late July.

Building a "Swale" on contour with the PDC class at Boulder Mtn. Guest Ranch.

A visit to the Red House Farm Garden in Boulder, Ut.

Scott at Red House Farm gets quite resourceful and creative with other's junk. Cold storage below, grain milling and food processing up top. With an old silo.