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Cheyenne Farm WV

Cheyenne Farm is in Summers County, WV and has cows, bees, chickens, guineas, a high tunnel, and more

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08/27/2026

Jim and I have stayed pretty busy this summer and have way too many things to still do before winter comes. We have hired some of our work out on our house projects to help keep the ball rolling on those, but Jim hasn’t yet given in to the idea of hiring someone to help him on the farms, and I wish he would. He’s going to start with second cutting hay soon, and we still need to get a bunch of wood for the winter since our main source of heat is an outdoor wood stove (it can also burn coal). Also, we will have a vacant rental in a couple of weeks and will need to start working on that (and we are still in the middle of working on another vacant rental already). Our garage apartment at our house has been on the back burner but I’d really like to get that finished so we can potentially move into it and fix up our main home so we can move Juniper into her own room and out of mine - she has her own bed and does well sleeping in it, but it would be great when she could safely sleep in her own room without climbing the way-too-steep stairs to get to it.

Juniper is growing up and still amazes us all the time. She’s 3 now and her hair still is too short to get her first haircut, but it is now long enough where I can (barely) put it all into one ponytail (when she lets me). She wants to paint her own nails, brush her own hair, and get dressed all by herself. She wants to do everything by herself and doesn’t like using tools that make things easier for her, but also gets very frustrated when she can’t do things on her own. For example, we can no longer use the toddler potty nor the stepstool to get to the adult sized toilet - she has to use the big toilet all by herself with no help and no stool. I’m not even allowed in the bathroom when she goes potty anymore because she’s a big girl and can do it without help (until she gets frustrated because she can’t get her shirt off without my help). I think I’ve taught her wrong because sometimes we are on the farm where there are no facilities and she says she has to go potty and so I tell her to just p*e in the grass and she does, but the other day without warning I walked out of the chicken coop by our house and she had her pants down around her ankles and she was relieving herself just like it is normal to do that outside.

I’m hoping this winter, things will slow down a bit, but for now, we are still full throttle.

08/16/2026

Busy weekend!!

08/11/2026

A few months ago, I told Juniper the corn would be ready to pick around her birthday. Somehow that translated to her as the corn is her birthday gift and it is now called “birthday corn”. Well, her birthday was a little less than 2 weeks ago, and the corn was starting to fill out but not quite ready. Today, we were able to pick several ears! Usually, our corn has little worms on the ends where the silks come out that we pick off, but this year, we don’t have those but ants are sure eating nearly most of the corn.

08/08/2026

To continue on our streak of bad luck, Jim went to start up his red truck the other day and it was broke down - lucky it was just the battery and he fixed it easily. Then, I ended up with a flat tire today - but have a great friend Mike Gore who took care of it for me and by the time I left work it was fixed! Today, I got stung by a bee 3 times - apparently female mason bees can sting more than once….she would’ve kept stinging but I was able to finally smack her flat. I also forgot to mention a few days ago Jim was stung by 5 different hornets and he was by himself on the White Oak farm and he’s previously had very serious allergies to “bees”, so I had to rush to the farm with some Benadryl but luckily he didn’t have any symptoms from the stings other than itching. Despite life keep trying to rain on our parade, we are still hanging in there!

Juniper, Granny Glenda, and I picked some beans from the garden today. There’s probably more to pick, but I don’t plan to can any this year. The corn is just now starting to be ready to pick, but so far it’s just been a few ears that filled out. Tomatoes are doing okay, but I’ve been neglecting them, so I don’t expect them to last too much longer.

Jim has one field left to mow for a first cutting - it’s fairly small (maybe 10 acres) at the White Oak farm. He’s been watching the forecast and it looks like rain, rain, and more rain. There have been very few rain breaks long enough to cut hay this summer, so Jim said he’s going to cut the last field now and chance it since the forecast has a low percentage for rain. Let’s hope it stays dry, at least on that farm!

08/06/2026

Pics from the past few days…

08/01/2026

Juniper had a busy birthday week! Today, she got to go to a pool party that Jim’s work hosts every year and then to her first parade and after that her first fireworks show. We ended up watching the fireworks next to our neighbors and the one girl who is a few years older than Juniper had more fun watching Juniper enjoy the fireworks than the show itself. We didn’t get any pictures of the fireworks, but Jim said it was neat to see the awe from Juniper’s face.

We really needed a fun day after the week we’ve had. We had a water line bust at one of our rental houses, leaking 50k gal into the ground over the past month we found out about last Friday. Then, yesterday, Jim’s truck broke down as he was going up a hill on his way to bring back hay to our farm. After the baler broke down a couple weeks ago keeping Jim from finishing getting up the rest of the hay. Each one of these issues wasn’t so bad, but collectively, it’s a lot and we just need a break. But, we’re so fortunate that all the issues were resolved quickly.

We haven’t seen Sylvester the black and white cat now in 12 days, and I fear he might have gotten outside at some point and gotten hurt. The gray feral cat, Taz, is still around and even let me pet him today! Taz is even more feral than Sylvester and I only have one pic of him because he’s too afraid to get close.

Here’s hoping it’ll be a great weekend!!

07/29/2026

3 years ago, it was a stormy day. The power had gone out at our house, and after giving birth, I asked if we could stay at the hospital a little longer so I didn’t have to go home to deal with a newborn in the house with no electricity. Today, there was also a storm this morning, but our power stayed on and it turned into a beautiful day.

We didn’t do anything fancy for Juniper’s birthday - she got to see her good friend Beyla over the weekend and today they had cupcakes at school. She also got to open a few gifts this evening, but nothing too much. I’m also hoping to take her to do a couple more fun things later this week. Earlier this summer when I planted my corn seeds, I told Juniper the corn would be ready around her birthday. We didn’t get to eat corn yet, but it isn’t too much longer - the ears are filling in now. She still calls it her birthday corn.

Juniper and I spent the evening going back through all her pictures and videos even from when she was a baby, which is something she enjoys doing quite often. I had never intended to put so many pics of her on our farm page, but I suppose it is nice to see her growing up on a farm which I think would be a cool way to grow up.

We now have a 3 year old!!

07/21/2026

We had a busy weekend! But, I suppose that’s normal for us. Jim did great baling hay on Friday until the baler kept breaking shear bolts and he’s not sure why. He took another baler to the farm to try to get the remaining hay up, but before he could, it rained. He’s still planning to get it once we have some dry days again. After all that raking I did, he better get it baled!!

I don’t talk about our rental business much, but I’ve been working on 2 vacant rentals for the past month or two. One will have a tenant this week, and the other still has some more work to go.

Juniper and I went to visit “Nanny Flanny” (our friend Cheryl Flanagan) at 3Bears Farm this weekend. We had not been there in awhile, and even though we hadn’t been there in over a year and a half, Juniper still remembered the peacocks that she saw the last time she was there. It’s amazing to me how good of a memory she has.

Back to work today… although I love my job, I’m already ready for the next weekend.

07/17/2026

Jim needed some help today in the hayfield, so I took the day off work and helped rake while he baled. He had mowed it earlier this week, and sometimes between mowing and raking people tedder, but it adds time to do that and we don’t have much time before the next expected rainfall in this case.

I don’t normally help with hay - this is maybe the 3rd time I’ve helped either Jim or his dad. Since Jim no longer has his dad to help, I suppose I’ll probably need to help more often. I am not great with a clutch and usually just set the tractor at one gear and stay there - like today I was in 3rd gear the whole time. Jim usually rakes in 4th gear and so he could do it faster than I can, but I’d rather go slow and be safer since I’m just not that comfortable on a tractor. I told Jim if he wanted a better job he should’ve hired someone for more money.

After Big Rock is baled, we will have all the fields done except White Oak which is just a small field. Well…that is until second cutting and Jim has to do all the fields again.

07/16/2026

A few pics from the week.

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Cheyenne Farm Road
Jumping Branch, WV
25969

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