It has been just lovely these past few weeks. The temperatures have looked more like 90 than 100 and in August in Texas this northern girl is grateful for it. When it cools down like this and get rain, we plant and plant. Mostly it’s brassicas and roots going into the ground for the fall…
It was one of the last 100+ degree days before the heat broke and the rains came. When we sat around the picnic table sharing watermelon, Kidney Bean & Greens Salad, and cold goat milk, the happy faces belied the weariness of August. Of the five Augusts I have experienced in Texas, this may be the…
The other day I was on my way out to check on the boys’ progress on some chicken coop projects. More on that soon. On the way out there I snapped a few photos of one of the newest additions to to the homestead – Kitty. She is an older goat in milk that we…
It happens nearly every year. The spring brings rain upon rain and you begin to take for granted the nights filled with pounding on a tin roof. And then it inches ever closer to June and you don’t quite know, when the rain stops, when it will come again. Last Friday the rain came. It soaked us…
