We’re home.
Where the greens in the cold frame (that I accidentally left open for the chickens to eat once) are making a comeback.
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Where even just a couple of eggs found in the nesting box still makes me smile.
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Where we are sinking into daily life after an emotional few weeks.
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And when everything else seems to be swirling and shifting, you can always count on a laundry pile.
The other night, six babies sick and Daddy at work, I took to the garden with my baby and picked dinner. There were green beans and squash snapped and chopped for frying. There were fresh dug potatoes and onions and garlic that still had dirt on ’em. When everyone is sick, and even when they’re…
I pulled ten eggs from the chicken coop last night. That plus the okra picked from plants as tall as me and the morning and the evening milking made up the day’s harvest. A dozen eggs have eluded us for quite some time now; high summer being our flock’s off season. Walking to the coop with…
The first half of our week was a bit more of a challenge than the second half, but we are learning daily what it means to throw off all previous expectations and learn from the process. Day Five: We get up early and I crank up the propane stove for what will be our first…
I wrote this last year but wasn’t ready to hit publish… until now. Leaving certain ways of thinking, living, and doing behind since moving off-grid has in many ways freed me from constraints I never knew I had and blind spots I simply could not see. It’s easier to see the messed up when you’re…
It hardly seems reasonable to claim this as a month of transition from summer to fall but here we are in September. Summer – particularly July and August – bring a paralyzing halt to just about everything. It is simply too hot to work on as many homestead projects as we’re accustomed to. So we’ve…
It is Monday morning and the coffee is fresh at 7 a.m. which is the time of day when I make lists; school, chores to be done, recipes to be tested, and mostly homesteading projects I’d like to get to. It’s seven in the morning, after all, which makes me even more unrealistic than usual….
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Ah yes, the laundry pile. It’s always there. Take care and be happy.
Your posts always make me smile.
Blessings Gail
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