Welcome to Jacobs Farm

Our Morning Glories have ever so subtly taken over our windmill that stands proudly in the middle of our garden.

Here is our beloved "Dirt Road" that gently rolls along leading you to Jacobs Farm.

And here you are at Jacobs Farm!

We're so glad you stopped by!

This is "Bandit" ~ he is our official Greeter to all who visit the Farm!  Bandit is our farm dog; he just showed up one morning about three months after we moved to the Dirt Road and he's been here ever since.  We decided that he must be an "outlaw dog" on the lamb - thus the name "Bandit" seemed to apply.  He has grown into an excellent farm dog and family companion.

If you drive on past our house, you'll arrive at the wooden bridge at our creek.  It is one of very few that remain in our County and we spend many a day sitting and talking and just gazing at the creek from this spot.

This is a view of our house from the bridge down at the creek.

We only just recently put up our Martin house.  (Shhh...don't tell my husband, but I don't think it's high enough.....)

Here's the guys' trampoline underneath one of our favorite Oak trees.  Many days, you'll find a number of the cats all sprawled out across the trampoline.

This is our "big barn" and is where the tractor, lawn mowers, extra feed and bigger equipment, tools, etc. are all kept and stored.  (I won't mention my husband's collection of old t.v.'s and vcr's that are in need of repair that "somehow" found their way out there, too............shhhhh......I'm not mentioning it....).  Oh ~ and that is "Thelma-Louise", my 1988 Jeep Grand Wagoneer, that is parked next to the Big Barn.  She is my girlfriend ride.  She is the coolest car in the whole wide world that there ever was.  My sons are learning to drive in Thelma-Louise.  (..and that's "Maddie", one of our Buff Orpington's underneath Thelma-Louise...)

Through those red gates is the "upper 26 acres".  That's where we chased the "Yipping Yeti's" and had the "Coyote Special Forces" set up to pick off coyotes or anything else that showed "the yella of their eyes....".

Believe it or not ~ everywhere you've already seen (where our house is, where the big barn is, etc.) was planted and growing thick in the same pines that you see behind those very red gates.  In fact, I had to learn how to use a chain saw and cut a good many myself, when we built our chicken house.

This is "the rear gate" that leads to the pasture behind us.  This is one of the pastures that our celebrity neighbors like to hang out in.  Last I heard, there's 99 of them!

I was standing in front of the rear gate looking back toward the road when I took this photo; that's the well house and the back side of the big barn....and here comes Bandit (always ~ Bless his heart).

Nearly one year later, our pond is beginning to actually look like a pond.  We only have about 2 feet to go before it will be full.  Despite the July drought, August and September have been generous with rainfall that has helped to fill our pond that we are anxious to see full, full, full!  We already have lots and lots of minnows from the guys releasing bream and bass that they 've caught over the last year.  Exciting!  Here's what it looked like when we first began this "pond endeavor"....remember?

Here's our chicken house at Christmas!  Our flock gets all decked out for the season, too!  We also outline the roofline with Christmas lights!

Meet "Elvis"!  He is a Single Comb Brown Leghorn and he is now 2 1/2 years old.  Isn't he handsome?

Meet "Whiskers" the resident feline matriarch.

She has just recently been interviewed by {the ever coveted} South of the Gnat Line.  That's an interview you don't want to miss.

Meet "St. Simon LaRue" (named for St. Simon's Island).  Rumor has it, Simon is the master of the house....(just don't tell my husband!).

Here are Billy-Bob-Clyde (clearly we were undecided on just one name - so all three stuck) and one of our youngest kittens from our April litter ~ Leutenant Rowdy (because he is...).  These are just a few of our farm felines - some are camera shy and we'll have to work them into the tour in the days ahead.

Our zinnias continue to bloom and bloom in the garden.

I'll continue to add more photos in the days ahead, so be sure to check back.  We are in no way expert farmers or real farmers - but we have farming and homesteading desires in our hearts.  "Winging it" is what we seem to do best!  I have what looks to be a 40 year to-do list and that'll put me at 85 when I finish it, so surely I'll be an expert at something by then!

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Thank you for visting Jacobs Farm ~ Hope you'll stop by again real soon!  We're always up to something around here!

Farm & Homestead Blessings,

Harriette