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{grin} If you’re interested in longleaf restoration and how to use controlled burns to manage forest lands, here’s a couple good resources…. Secrets of the Longleaf Pine … one hour documentary about the history of the longleaf pine in the southern USA, available on Amazon Prime Expeditions with Patrick McMillin, Season It’s specific to longleaf pines, but I think if you’re new to the topic, it has a lot of insights to any forest management plan. I think it’s an amazing part of learning stewardship for the kiddos to see the burn, see the aftermath, and then see it 1-2-3 years down the road.

Along the same lines, use several smaller rubber feed pans or wooden feed troughs, rather than one big one. Use 2 smaller chicken water-ers so the kids can carry them, rather than one big one that they can’t move by themselves. You can use a nice feed-store version with a handle (like this one), or you can just use a jumbled conglomerate of old coffee cans, rubber feed pans, out-grown sippy cups, and microwave-stained tupperware, like we do. {smile} With little helpers they will probably get lost or broken pretty regularly, so don’t get too attached. Or lining feed troughs up along the fence and the kids pouring the feed over the fence line into the troughs so the animals can’t surround them.

They don’t usually include normal stuff we need like chewable meds for kids, bug spray and sunblock, or even tissues and wet wipes. And it’s easy to grab if we change vehicles for a trip, need to run across the football field, or even to throw in a backpack for an unplanned hike (although it’s not lightweight! ). • Farm Adventures (like hunting a Christmas tree and misletoe or work fence on the far side of the farm) • Visiting Family and Friends (often they won’t have things like Children’s liquid Tylenol or chewable Benedryl in their cabinets regularly) • We used to carry both regular dosage pills and liquid or chewable children’s dosages but now all my kiddos can swallow pills so I don’t always have the liquids with me.

The boys wear a Fruit of the Loom thermal base layer shirt, a regular shirt, and then their winter coat. I wear a L in mens active jac, but my Women’s is a 2X.} During the week they’re usually out there in jeans on their way to or from school. I have a pair of women’s insulated gloves that I love and I’ve got my eye on a pair of mittens that I think would work too. Mr. Fix-It has a pair of warm all-purpose gloves that he’ll wear if he’s out walking or playing with the kiddos.