It is a rare occurrence that I am out in the (very rundown) pasture at the same time as the children but it just so happened I was there a couple of weeks ago to capture something I didn’t even know was happening.
I was out there helping Stewart and happened to have my camera and Abram happened to not realize that last fact. I am sure if he had it would have never been caught in a photo. But I am very thankful it was.
I actually had to go back and look at the date of my last post to see how old these birds are. It turns out it’s been just about a month since our last update and things have definitely changed. The first major change is that we got netting up over the whole chicken run….
We moved to this bare acreage nearly seven years ago with not much more than a head full of homesteading books and a dream. Neither of us had ever built a house, used solar power, kept animals, or built homestead infrastructure by hand. We still feel like greenhorns in so many ways and this video…
I have probably said this a hundred times now: Almost nothing on the homestead happens as we thought it might. Take for instance the prospect of raising hogs. We’d been talking about it for years but of course always had higher priorities. Chickens and dairy animals and barns for those dairy animals all came at…
So it has been quite some time since my last update on our meat bird experiment. I figured maybe a quick recap of what we were trying to do was in order. We brought home a bunch of Cornish Cross chicks in the spring. We wanted to raise them as meat birds but do it…
These are blurry days, these first couple of months with a new little one. We’re just getting back into some school and some homesteading stuff three weeks in as a family of eight. And somehow I ended up with only these pictures – and none of baby Hannah – on my camera card. So Stewart…
Last week Stewart put up a car gate and two homemade walking gates and thereby completed the fencing of the pasture. If you walk around the property you’ll find homemade gates on the pasture, the original two acres, the chicken field, and the pallet garden. I only mention that because I am kind of a sucker…
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I do so enjoy your pictures and writings. Your family is growing so fast, it is hard to realize that you will have teens coming along. The pictures of Abram and his steer are awesome. You all are building a lot of precious memories each and every day. I am blessed that I have been able to capture so much of our lives in pictures. They are something to treasure. Blessings to you all.
Martha – Oh dear, I had not even thought of the fact that these boys will, Lord willing, be teenagers in a few years. They are just about to turn ten and twelve respectively so I will keep telling myself it is a ways off before they grow up.
Precious!!
What a sweet photo. Thanks for sharing.☺
Oh…. my heart! What an amazing set of pictures. I bet your mama heart smiled so much catching these!!
Melonie – Yes, exactly! Abram is our most introverted introvert so getting any natural pictures of him is tough, making this especially exciting.
Beautiful photos! Precious and unique communication between the 2 of them. <3 <3 <3