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When you find out your country lifestyle is actually called “quarantine” or “shelter-in-place”

April 9, 2020 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 1 Comment

It’s crazy how fast the world can change. One day you are planning a musical number with the youth of your ward and the next day the church issues a statement saying all meetings worldwide are cancelled. Then our state closed all public schools and non-essential businesses. And for us, nothing in our life really […]

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Haying 2019

August 19, 2019 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 5 Comments

As I write this post we (meaning the entire extended family farm) are in the middle of our third crop of alfalfa hay. We usually get four cuttings of hay per year. We have 24 pivots in alfalfa hay this year, one in Timothy hay, and a smaller pivot in winter wheat. It takes about […]

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Planting Wheat

April 24, 2018 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 1 Comment

I am woefully behind on posting our every day happenings at home and on the farm. We have been busy that is for sure! Wheat was planted in the field next to our house at the end of March. This wheat will be used as a type of feed for cows so it’s not the […]

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First Hay Crop of 2017

June 29, 2017 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} Leave a Comment

Now that we are starting second crop today I probably should post about first crop. I wish I could describe how wonderful the smell of freshly swathed hay is. It’s not like cut grass. It’s stronger and slightly sweeter. Once cut the hay is left to dry for several days. Then two swaths of hay […]

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Farming Season Has Officially Begun!

May 10, 2017 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 1 Comment

The weather has finally decided to start being more warm than cold. With the warmer weather comes the need to start watering the alfalfa fields. Joseph and his brothers spent a good amount of time checking the pivots and getting them ready to go. New hoses needed to be put on some of the pivots. […]

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Just Go With the Flow

September 7, 2016 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 3 Comments

Our 18th year of homeschool officially started on Monday! And it definitely didn’t go as planned. But that’s okay. If motherhood and homeschooling have taught me anything it is to just go with the flow. We do have a schedule set up but we are also still farming, getting in our fourth crop of hay. When […]

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Swamped with Farming

June 4, 2016 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 4 Comments

We have been so busy! Which is good. It makes us not miss Marie as much. But it also does make us miss her because she was such a huge help. Speaking of Marie we set up a blog so you can follow along on her adventures in England. The blog is called The Flying […]

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Spring Branding 2016

May 10, 2016 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 1 Comment

Some spring branding took place last week. Henry was taking a nap so I didn’t go watch this time but all the kids did. These pictures were taken by Marie. Enjoy a little taste of life on the farm!

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Richly Hued Harvest

October 21, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 10 Comments

Rain. Bucket loads of it during June and July brought life to the dry desert dirt. A video posted by Montserrat Wadsworth (@cranialhiccups) on Jul 8, 2015 at 4:44pm PDT And to our garden. While weeds and vegetable (and fruit) plants grew we could never really be sure there would be much of a harvest. […]

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Rain, rain, and more rain!

July 23, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 1 Comment

We had a very exciting day yesterday. I was in town eating lunch with some special women when I got a text from my husband with this picture. No rain in the valley but the mountains on either side of us are getting drenched. Here’s a pic of a little flash flood coming down from […]

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July Days

July 17, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 5 Comments

Our first crop of hay got rained on pretty bad. Rain is not good when the hay has been cut! The hay bleaches in the sun as it waits to dry out. Nutrients are leached out of the hay the longer it stays in the field. If you bale it too wet it will either […]

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Time Marches On

May 29, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 4 Comments

I foolishly thought things would slow down after Eve and Patrick’s wedding. Instead we find ourselves involved in just as much as before. It has all been good and wonderful! Our nephew got married two weeks ago in Reno. It was fun to see the newlyweds who came down for the second of the cousins […]

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Spring in February?

February 20, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 5 Comments

We have had such a mild winter. It is not what we need. We needed tons of rain and snow to build up the snowpack in the mountains. Our fields are watered with wells but the farm in Fallon is irrigated from the Truckee River. They might not get any of their water this coming […]

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Life on the Flying W Farm

October 28, 2014 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 2 Comments

Life at the Flying W Farm

Long time readers know of my love for the talented Young family and the varied ways they inspire others through painting, photography, and literary publications. Prints of some of Elspeth’s Women in the Bible paintings grace my daughters’ walls. I have subscribed to The Storybook Home Journal for several years and utilize it in my homeschool. […]

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Building Hay Barns

August 12, 2014 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 4 Comments

purlings on hay barn

In between crops this summer the men and teenage boys have been building more hay barns. They dug the holes and cemented the metal poles, cut and welded the trusses, and attached purlin after purlin in the hot sun. Last week six nephews and a brother-in-law came up from Fallon to help put tin on […]

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Hello, I'm Montserrat. I'm a farmer's wife, mother of eleven, homeschooler, chocoholic, music lover, and like to play a good game of Scrabble. You can read more about me here. . .

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