The canner has been running nearly every single day; often twice per day. The tomatoes are getting tall, the cucumber salads daily, and the pickles are fermenting by the gallon. Oh, and we have a potential watermelon farmer on our hands who also happens to be smitten by this baby sister of his.
See you in July, friends.
Her hand wraps effortlessly around my finger and it is like a thousand upon a thousand hugs. Her head smells sweeter than the sweetest flower in the greenest meadow and so I make my way back there a hundred times a day before it fades, for I know it will. My fate is sealed when…
Right around the same time we added Kitty to the homestead, a new friend came to live. I never thought I’d utter these words but we got a cat and I’m okay with it. If you know me in real life, you know my distaste for the feline species runs deep. But I like vegetables more…
I was reminded these past two weeks of how little margin there are in our days. Everyone but Stewart came down with a cold or flu or something that had us slightly feverish and sniffling and coughing. It all started two Sundays ago and still, it lingers. But cows still need to be milked and…
NEWS: Now through July 9th you can receive $5 off a $25 stainless steel cookware purchase from Paula’s Bread. "Who wants fish and pancakes for lunch?!" I gleefully called to my two boys, almost four and two. It was in that moment that I realized I was desperate. I was selling this odd lunch like…
If I were to do an honest year-in-review post it would look something like this: January through April we put in the chicken field and started the summer garden. Fruit trees were planted, perennial herbs were thrown in the ground. May brought news of a new babe and thus began the usual season of morning…
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…
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So beautiful. So beautiful I got a lump in my throat. True that.